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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543247791
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 6
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 30, 2006
Running Time: 609 minutes
Sales Rank: 9020
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: June 03, 1955
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Description:
Collection Includes the following Titles:
**SEVEN YEAR ITCH **GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES **NIAGARA **RIVER OF NO RETURN **LET'S MAKE LOVE **MARILYN: THE FINAL DAYS
Amazon.com:
The Marilyn Monroe Special Anniversary Collection consists of five Marilyn Monroe films plus the documentary The Final Days. Howard Hawks's 1953 musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes stars Monroe and Jane Russell as friends who go to Paris looking for mates. The film is charged by Hawks's stylish snap, a famous set piece or two (including Monroe descending that staircase while singing 'Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend'), Russell's wit, and songs by Leo Robin and Jule Styne. The Seven Year Itch (1955) is a memorable laugh machine. As a married man left alone during a hot summer, Tom Ewell shows off crack timing matched by Monroe's zesty comic flair, and the scene in which her white dress is blown skyward by a passing subway train has entered the encyclopedia of great movie images. In Niagara, Monroe is a full-fledged sex goddess, a scheming wife tormenting husband Joseph Cotten in their cabin by the falls. This Technicolor slice of pseudo-Hitchcock is a fun location picture with a genuinely exciting climax. Otto Preminger's River of No Return has Monroe livened up by the presence of costar Robert Mitchum, in a strong outdoorsy Western that catches the two stars in appealing form. By the time of 1960's Let's Make Love, Monroe looks tired. This backstage musical is more interesting as a time capsule than as a romance, although one number shines: 'My Heart Belongs to Daddy.'
In The Final Days, producer-director Patty Ivins chronicles Monroe's final, aborted feature film, Something's Got to Give, which was ultimately shut down after the star was dismissed from the production. Beyond Monroe's fragile emotional and physical health, this well-crafted profile examines the financial crisis facing her studio as well as the mounting frustration of meticulous director George Cukor and his cast, including costar Dean Martin, as Monroe's absences drove the shoot over budget. The documentary concludes with a 40-minute reconstruction of footage completed for the feature, which would subsequently be reshot as a vehicle for Doris Day and James Garner, Move Over, Darling.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Wow!
This movie set was a gift for my daughter. It had several movies that she did not have and made a perfect surprise! It was packaged very well, arrived in excellent condition and was exactly what I ordered. Thanks!
Rating:  - Good collection but......
I was so excited to receive this collection. I watch Niagara right away. The next day I put in Marilyn, the final days and the excitement was gone. The movie skipped and froze throughout the ENTIRE dvd. I thought I bought this new not used?
Rating: - After reading about NormaJeane I do believe she was enormously talented
I was so interested in NormaJeane and her psychological background. I read most of the major autobiographies. I do think this woman was driven. I think she made some bad decisions choosing a lifestyle which including drugs. In her days they did not know long term effects of any drug much less barbiturates. Certainly her alcohol use with the drugs truely made her Hollywood's child. I found her a mass of conflicting impulses. She never really bonded to the classical female role. Early in her life she did, until ambition won. She was extravagently beautiful. She could not nuture female relationships, probably due to her mother's dismal contributions to her upbringing. These movies reflect what she became. What she had strived for all her life. I enjoyed them because of her true talent and remarkable beauty. I was too young when they were released.
Rating:  - Good Buy
The movie set arrived earlier than expected and it was in great condition, none of the disks were scratched and the box was nice. Overall, this was a good buy, and I would buy from this person again.
Rating: - Things I did not know about Maryln. Love her movies
Things I did not know about Marylyn.Love her movies. They do tell a story about her real life.
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