Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days (2001) (TV)

Director:

Patty Ivins Specht

Guionista:

Monica Bider (writer)

Release Date:

1 junio 2001 (USA)

Genre:

Documentary | Biografía

Plot:

Documentary about the moviestar's last months including her tumultuous love affairs, drug and alcohol dependency...

Plot Keywords:

Female Nudity | Actress | Birthday | Chronic Illness | Depression

Awards:

1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

transcendent

Cast

James Coburn	...	Narrator
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Gene Allen	...	Himself - Associate Producer
Steve Allen	...	Himself - Actor / Co-Star
Lauren Bacall	...	Herself (archive footage)
George Barris	...	Himself - Photographer
Walter Bernstein	...	Himself - Writer
Humphrey Bogart	...	Himself (archive footage)
David Brown	...	Himself - Producer
Cyd Charisse	...	Herself - Actress / Co-Star
Wally Cox	...	Himself (archive footage)
George Cukor	...	Himself (archive footage)
Joe DiMaggio	...	Himself (archive footage)
Hyman Engelberg	...	Himself - Marilyn's Physician (as Hyman Engelberg M.D.)
Alexandra Heilweil	...	Herself (archive footage)
Lyndon Johnson	...	Himself (archive footage)
John F. Kennedy	...	Himself (archive footage)
Robert F. Kennedy	...	Himself (archive footage)
Dean Martin	...	Himself (archive footage)
Richard Meryman	...	Himself - Journalist
Arthur Miller	...	Himself (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe	...	Herself (archive footage)
Evelyn Moriarty	...	Herself - Marilyn's Stand-In
Robert Christopher Morley	...	Himself (archive footage)
Eunice Murray	...	Herself - Marilyn's Housekeeper (archive footage)
Sheree North	...	Herself - Actress
Richard Raguse	...	Himself - Production Sound
Peggy Shannon	...	Herself - Hair Stylist
Lee Strasberg	...	Himself (archive footage)
Susan Strasberg	...	Herself - Actress / Friend
Elizabeth Taylor	...	Herself (archive footage)
Henry T. Weinstein	...	Himself - Producer (as Henry Weinstein)

Duración:

90 min | USA:117 min (DVD)

País:

USA

Idioma:

English

Color:

Color

Sonido:

Stereo

Clasificación:

Finland:S | Australia:PG | Germany:12 | UK:U | USA:TV-14

Company:

Prometheus Entertainment

Movie Connections:

Features The Seven Year Itch (1955)

Soundtrack:

Something's Gotta Give

transcendent

wow! this is a mind-blowing documentary! up with the best ever IMHO -- particularly Let It Be in its portrait of a great artist's demise; Lost In La Mancha in the disaster caught on film; Swear To Tell The Truth (about Lenny Bruce) in its common era and tragic hero; and Festival Express in its unreal footage that you never thought existed of masters in their prime. and make no mistake, this girl was still in her prime! she could be in a parka reading the newspaper with a three-ring circus beside her and Nobody would notice the circus!

how it portrayed the final hours without a conspiracy theory undertone. and Sinatra singing the theme song to her lost last movie?! huh!? and that Wally Cox shot two of the final scenes ever with Marilyn Monroe!? and that Steve Allen was also in the last movie? was there anything he didn't do!?

I remember hearing about this when it came out, and I just went, "Oh, some other stupid documentary on Marilyn," like there's been A Million of these already. but this is so serious, and real, and complete, and not just whoring her name and figure. it made me choked up in both her final performance in "Something's Got To Give" (another freakily ominous title, like that Beatles farewell), and in the recreation of her last night.

she is So transcendent! there aren't many humans captured on film as captivating as her. and What a portrait this is of her final reel!