He's a good five years older than Clark and there is such a difference between a young man freshly starting out in his midtwenties and a more settled and mature man of 30. Redmayne doesn't catch that difference. But she turns on the charm for the young Colin, a mere 25 year old who she turns to for comfort.įrankly I could do without Eddie Redmayne and his wierdly freckled duckbill lips as Colin Clark. As played in the film, Monroe's self esteem is so incredibly low, her understanding of her talent so tenuous, that she comes off far more irritating than titillating. Still she does a grand job of embodying Monroe's bombshell act - which Michelle Williams plays as a character choice -along with her monumental and conflicting self-doubt. She doesn't really ooze Marilyn's sex appeal. I adore Michelle Williams and she definitely has Marilyn's fragility down but she doesn't really channel Monroe. Colin Clark, the Third Assistant Director on the film, was smitten with the newly married sex symbol and wrote My Week with Marilyn reportedly based on his experiences with the actress when Miller left Monroe to visit his children in the states. She was newly married to the iconic American writer, Arthur Miller, who joined her on the shoot in England, in lieu of a honeymoon.

My Week with Marilyn takes place about five years earlier, when she was at the height of her fame, during the making The Prince and the Showgirl with Sir Laurence Olivier. That was the end of Marilyns' very short life. I remember being fascinated with her affairs, with her death, with the theory that the overdose was staged as a coverup for murder. I didn't even have a typewriter back then! I remember checking out books from the tiny Ocean Park branch library on Main Street, as well as periodicals from the Santa Monica Public Library and laboriously writing notes by hand on index cards.

Rollins' tenth grade English class at dear old Samohi. That must have been in 1969, just 7 years after her death at the age of 36. I wrote a paper on Marilyn Monroe way back when I was in Mrs.

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