The best movies about Marilyn Monroe in history
“Norma Jean & Marilyn”
A biographical film made in 1996, played by Ashley Judd who played the role of Norma Jean Dougherty and Mira Sorvino who played Marilyn Monroe. This film was partially based on "Norma Jean: My Secret Life With Marilyn Monroe" written by actor Eddie Jordan who said he had a relationship with the actress.
The film is about an unhappy young girl who goes on to become a famous actress. She was called Norma Jean Baker. To fulfill her dream, she even had a nose job, dyed her hair platinum blonde, and adopted the name Marilyn Monroe.
She reached her stardom in Hollywood, she became a symbol and she was associated with very prominent characters of the North American elite. But she still felt lonely as much as Norma Jean Baker.
“My Week with Marilyn”
A film of the year 2011, directed by Simon Curtis and starring Michelle Williams. The plot of the film is based on two books by British Colin Clark who worked as an assistant on the set of the film starring Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier in 1956. Monroe was spending her honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller.
When her husband travels, Clark is the person who introduces her to Monroe and is the one who teaches her the British way of life. They spend a week together. During that time Monroe escapes from the routine and pressure of working in Hollywood.
“Blonde”
An American tape recorded in 2001, made for television where the life of Marilyn Monroe is narrated. Her role is played by Australian actress Poppy Montgomery. The plot is a fictional biography where part of the reality of his life is mixed, as well as suppositions of his childhood and his first marriage in adolescence with James Dougherty, his time at Century Fox, the meeting with the photographer Otto Ose, her adoptive parents, her relationship with her mother, and her marriage to famous baseball player Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller.
“Goodbye, NormaJean”
This film is about her early years as Norma Jean Baker (played by Misty Rowe) before her stardom in Hollywood. It shows a series of encounters that she started when she was raped and that defined her life.
Norma's life takes place in poverty at the beginning of the 40's, because she worked in a munitions plant and her biggest dream was to be a movie star. Being abused as a child, she lost her self-confidence. However, she decided to define her own style of beauty and when she got her nose done, she dyed her hair blonde, changed into an apparent naive manner and acquired lips.
“Goodnight Sweet Marilyn”
It is considered a "never told before" film about the death of Marilyn Monroe. It is said that it was a pre-arranged mercy killing. In addition, it is a continuation of the previous film from 1960, directed by Buchanan and who played Marilyn is the actress Paula Lane. Scenes from her youth are interspersed. It is shown when Marilyn sings her happy birthday to the President, a famous scene that is still remembered today.
