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Marilyn
Monroe - The Diamond CollectionDVD
~ Marilyn Monroe
Some
Like It Hot (Special Edition) (1959)
DVD
~ Marilyn Monroe
Some
Like It Hot (1959)
DVD
Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis
Director: Billy Wilder.
Comedy.
Maybe "nobody's perfect," as one character in this masterpiece suggests.
But some movies are perfect, and Some Like It Hot is one of them. In Chicago,
during the Prohibition era, two skirt-chasing musicians, Joe and Jerry
(Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon), inadvertently witness the St. Valentine's
Day Massacre. In order to escape the wrath of gangland chief Spats Colombo
(George Raft), the boys, in drag, join an all-woman band headed for Florida.
They vie for the attention of the lead singer, Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe),
a much-disappointed songbird who warbles "I'm Through with Love" but remains
vulnerable to yet another unreliable saxophone player. (When Curtis courts
her without his dress, he adopts the voice of Cary Grant--a spot-on impersonation.)
The script by director Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is beautifully measured;
everything works, like a flawless clock. Aspiring screenwriters would be
well advised to throw away the how-to books and simply study this film.
The bulk of the slapstick is handled by an unhinged Lemmon and the razor-sharp
Joe
E. Brown, who plays a horny retiree smitten by Jerry's feminine charms.
For all the gags, the film is also wonderfully romantic, as Wilder indulges
in just the right amounts of moonlight and the lilting melody of "Park
Avenue Fantasy." Some Like It Hot is so delightfully fizzy, it's hard to
believe the shooting of the film was a headache, with an unhappy Monroe
on her worst behavior. The results, however, are sublime. --Robert Horton
- Amazon.com
Gentlemen
Prefer Blondes (1953)
DVD
Starring: Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe
Director: Howard Hawks
The
Misfits (1961)
DVD
Stars: Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe Director: John Huston.
How
To Marry A Millionaire (1953)
DVD
~ Betty Grable
How
to Marry a Millionaire (1953) VHS
Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall Director: Jean Negulesco. Comedy.
Nunnally Johnson's Broadway comedy was brought to the big screen by
director Jean Negulesco, built around a trio of female stars, Lauren Bacall,
Marilyn Monroe, and Betty Grable. They play friends who come up with a
plan to find and marry rich men. They rent a lavish penthouse and use it
as their launching pad to lure men with money in the bank. But each eventually
finds that love is more important that material possessions, though it
takes a while. One running joke has Monroe so insecure about her looks
that she refuses to wear glasses, though this means she bumps into furniture
and walls. The other has Bacall rejecting suitor Cameron Mitchell because
he doesn't wear a tie, assuming this means he's low-class when, in fact,
he's the Donald Trump of 1954. Pre-feminist comedy captures the mindset
of an era in which women's identities were based on the men they married.
It has its moments, but much of the humor seems dated, though its take
on sexual politics is occasionally acute. --Marshall Fine - Amazon.com
The
Seven Year Itch (1955)
DVD
~ Marilyn Monroe
There's
No Business Like Show Business (1954)
DVD
Starring: Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, et al.
Director: Walter Lang
Bus
Stop (1956)
DVD
~ Marilyn Monroe
Bus
Stop (1956) VHS
Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray Director: Joshua Logan.
Comedy drama
The
Love Goddesses (1965)
DVD
Starring: Carl King, et al.
Director: Saul J. Turell
Includes clips of Theda Bara, Marlene Dietrich, Clara Bow, Pola Negri,
Ingrid Bergman, Marilyn Monroe and others.
We
Remember Marilyn (1996)
DVD
~ Marilyn Monroe
Some
Like It Hot (1959) VHS
Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis Director: Billy Wilder.
Comedy.
The
Misfits (1961) VHS
Stars: Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe Director: John Huston.
Gentlemen
Prefer Blondes (1953) VHS
Stars: Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe Director: Howard Hawks.
Musical.
The
Seven Year Itch (1955) VHS
Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell Director: Billy Wilder.
Lighthearted comedy with a strong dose of spice.
All
About Eve (1950) VHS
River
of No Return (1954) VHS
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Marilyn Monroe Director: Otto Preminger.
There's
No Business Like Show Business (1954) VHS
Don't
Bother to Knock (1952) VHS
Stars: Richard Widmark, Marilyn Monroe Director: Roy Ward Baker. Suspense,
Hitchcock style.
Niagara
(1953) VHS
The
Asphalt Jungle (1950) VHS
Monkey
Business (1952) VHS
Marilyn
Monroe - The Diamond Collection VHS
Marilyn
Monroe - The Diamond Collection II (Don't Bother to Knock / Let's Make
Love / Monkey Business / Niagara / River of No Return) VHS
Let's Make Love(1960) Stars: Yves Montand, Marilyn Monroe Director:
George Cukor. Musical comedy.
The
Prince and the Showgirl (1957) VHS
Stars: Laurence Olivier, Marilyn Monroe Director: Laurence Olivier.
Romantic comedy.
Biography
- Marilyn Monroe: Mortal Goddess (1996) VHS
~ A & E Biography
Biography
- Marilyn Monroe: Mortal Goddess (1996) VHS
~ A & E Biography
The
Marilyn Collection (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Let's Make Love, The Seven
Year Itch) VHS
~ Marilyn Monroe
Hometown
Story (1951) VHS
Home
Town Story (1951) VHS
Intimate
Portrait: Marilyn Monroe (1999) VHS
Love
Happy (1950) VHS
~ Harpo Marx
Ladies
of the Chorus (1948) VHS
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Marilyn
Files (1991) VHS
~ Marilyn Monroe
Playboy:
Playmates - Early Years (1991) VHS
Marilyn
- The Last Word (A Reenactment of the Events Leading Up to Her Tragic Death)
(1993) VHS
The Pin Ups (1994)
Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable Director: Jerome Camuzat.
Documentary of pin-up girls from the 1930s to the present.
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