Michelle Williams in a scene from “My Week With Marilyn.” Re-posted from 2012 on Blogfinger.
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger
Marilyn Monroe, the voluptuous pin-up girl of the 1950’s and the star of every boy’s dreams, is the subject of the movie “My Week With Marilyn.” The film depicts a slice of her life when, at the peak of her fame, she goes to England to make a movie with Sir Laurence Olivier. She is depicted wonderfully by the gorgeous Michelle Williams, who re-creates all the Marilyn moves complete with shimmies, winks, bouncing curves and breathy voice.
She is depicted as she was: part vulnerable woman and part petulant child. Huge success and tragedy accompany her. In the film she is on her honeymoon with Arthur Miller, but he leaves for a week, and she gets to spend time with the 23 year old “third director” who becomes her pal. The story is taken from a book published in 2000.
Michelle Williams with her usual hairstyle
Michelle Williams, age 31, received an Academy Award nomination for her acting. If you are a Marilyn fan, you will love this movie. It has just been released on “pay per view.”
There’s a fine soundtrack which includes the pianist Lang Lang. Also, Nat King Cole, from the same era as Marilyn, performs one song, but it is perfect as a musical background for Marilyn Monroe as we like to remember her.
NAT KING COLE:
This is the link to the Blogfinger article from last year with the photograph of the couple dancing.
And here is our post showing Eve Arnold, the Magnum photographer with Marilyn: