Marilyn Monroe Collection - 6-DVD Box Set ( Ladies of the Chorus / Some Like It Hot / The Legend of Marilyn Monroe / Home Town Story / Remembering Marilyn / The Misfits )

Marilyn Monroe Collection - 6-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

$81.99

Original Title: Ladies of the Chorus / Some Like It Hot / The Legend of Marilyn Monroe / Home Town Story / Remembering Marilyn / The Misfits
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
538 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1948 - 1989 and produced in:
Canada ( USA, Canada )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Phil Karlson
Billy Wilder
Terry Sanders
Arthur Pierson
Andrew Solt
John Huston

Written By:
Joseph Carole
Harry Sauber
Robert Thoeren
Michael Logan
Theodore Strauss
Terry Sanders
Arthur Pierson
Andrew Solt
Arthur Miller

Actors:
Adele Jergens ..... Mae Martin
Marilyn Monroe ..... Peggy Martin
Rand Brooks ..... Randy Carroll
Nana Bryant ..... Mrs. Adele Carroll
Eddie Garr ..... Bill Mackay, Mae's suitor aka Uncle Billy
Steven Geray ..... Salisbury, Carroll's Butler
The Bobby True Trio ..... Trio Musicians
Marilyn Monroe ..... Sugar Kane Kowalczyk
Tony Curtis ..... Joe - 'Josephine'
Jack Lemmon ..... Jerry - 'Daphne'
George Raft ..... Spats Colombo
Pat O'Brien ..... Det. Mulligan
Joe E. Brown ..... Osgood Fielding III
Nehemiah Persoff ..... Little Bonaparte
Joan Shawlee ..... Sweet Sue
Billy Gray ..... Sig Poliakoff
George E. Stone ..... Toothpick Charlie
Dave Barry ..... Beinstock
Mike Mazurki ..... Spats' henchman
Harry Wilson ..... Spats' henchman
Beverly Wills ..... Dolores
Barbara Drew ..... Nellie
John Huston ..... Himself - Presenter / Narrator
Marilyn Monroe ..... Herself (archive footage)
Gladys Baker ..... Herself
Albert Bolender ..... Himself (as The Bolenders)
Ida Bolender ..... Herself (as The Bolenders)
Mable Ellen Campbell ..... Herself
James Dougherty ..... Himself
Jerry Giesler ..... Himself (archive footage)
Milton H. Greene ..... Himself (archive footage) (as Milton Greene)
Tom Kelly ..... Himself
John F. Kennedy ..... Himself (archive footage)
Harry Lipton ..... Himself
Inez Melson ..... Herself
Arthur Miller ..... Himself (archive footage)
Eunice Murray ..... Herself (as Mrs. Eunice Murray)
Emmeline Snively ..... Herself (as Mrs. Emmeline Snively)
Lee Strasberg ..... Himself
Jeffrey Lynn ..... Blake Washburn
Donald Crisp ..... John MacFarland
Marjorie Reynolds ..... Janice Hunt
Alan Hale Jr. ..... Slim Haskins
Marilyn Monroe ..... Iris Martin
Barbara Brown ..... Mrs. Washburn
Melinda Plowman ..... Katie Washburn
Renny McEvoy ..... Leo, the Taxi Driver
Glenn Tryon ..... Ken Kenlock
Byron Foulger ..... Berny Miles
Griff Barnett ..... Uncle Cliff Washburn
Virginia Campbell ..... Phoebe Hartman
Harry Harvey ..... Andy Butterworth
Nelson Leigh ..... Dr. Johnson
Speck Noblitt ..... Motorcycle officer
Robert Mitchum ..... Himself
Lee Remick ..... Host
Gloria Steinem ..... Herself
Susan Strasberg ..... Herself
Robert Wagner ..... Himself
Clark Gable ..... Gay Langland
Marilyn Monroe ..... Roslyn Taber
Montgomery Clift ..... Perce Howland
Thelma Ritter ..... Isabelle Steers
Eli Wallach ..... Guido
James Barton ..... Fletcher's grandfather
Kevin McCarthy ..... Raymond Taber
Estelle Winwood ..... Church lady collecting money in bar

Synopsis:

Ladies of the Chorus
Former burlesque star May and her daughter Peggy dance in the chorus.
Some Like It Hot
Joe, the saxophone player, is Josephine in the all girls band that he joined with Jerry, the bass violin player, to be one step ahead of the mob after witnessing the 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago.
The Legend of Marilyn Monroe
A documentary about the life and career of 1950s sex symbol Marilyn Monroe, narrated by director John Huston.
Home Town Story
The story revolves around Blake Washburn, a mildly leftist newspaperman, played by Jeffrey Lynn. Returning to his home town, Washburn turns his journalistic vitriol upon the local business interests. Only after his kid sister Katie (Melinda Plowman), trapped in a cave-in, is rescued by locally produced technology, does Washburn realize the value of the capitalistic system.
Remembering Marilyn
Documentary tribute to Marilyn Monroe, includes film clips, interviews with her and the people who knew her.
The Misfits
Gable stars as Gay Langland, an aging hand traveling the byways and working at rodeos with his two comrades, Guido (Eli Wallach) and young Perce Howland (Montgomery Clift). The three men come up with a plan to corral some misfit mustangs and sell them for dog food, but Gay's new girlfriend Roslyn Taber (Marilyn Monroe), a high-minded ex-stripper who has just divorced her husband Ray (Kevin McCarthy) in Reno, is appalled by the plan.

Ladies of the Chorus
Former burlesque star May and her daughter Peggy dance in the chorus. When May has a fight with featured dancer Bubbles, Bubbles leaves the show and Peggy takes her place. When Peggy falls in love with wealthy Randy, May fears class differences may lead to misery. Marilyn sings 'Every Baby Needs a Da Da Daddy' and 'Anyone Can Tell I Love You.'
Some Like It Hot
Joe, the saxophone player, is Josephine in the all girls band that he joined with Jerry, the bass violin player, to be one step ahead of the mob after witnessing the 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago. After a train ride that sets a record for number of people in an upper berth, they are In Miami. Joe decides to be the man of Sugar Kane's dreams and invites her out to a yacht he doesn't have. But he can use Osgood Fielding's yacht if Jerry - as Daphne - will keep Osgood dancing. The pace gets even giddier when the Chicago mob arrives in Miami for a convention.
The Legend of Marilyn Monroe
A documentary about the life and career of 1950s sex symbol Marilyn Monroe, narrated by director John Huston (who worked with her on 'The Misfits'). Included are interviews with friends, cast and crew who worked with her and others who knew her, clips from her films and some scenes that were cut from her earliest movies and not seen for many years.
Home Town Story
Home Town Story was commissioned as a pro-Big Business tract by General Motors. The story revolves around Blake Washburn, a mildly leftist newspaperman, played by Jeffrey Lynn. Returning to his home town, Washburn turns his journalistic vitriol upon the local business interests. Only after his kid sister Katie (Melinda Plowman), trapped in a cave-in, is rescued by locally produced technology, does Washburn realize the value of the capitalistic system. Home Town Story was fitfully distributed by MGM, then lapsed into obscurity. It might have remained there had it not been for the presence of a young Marilyn Monroe in a supporting part.
Remembering Marilyn
Documentary tribute to Marilyn Monroe, includes film clips, interviews with her and the people who knew her.
The Misfits
The final film of stars Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe is an elegy for the death of the Old West from writer Arthur Miller and director John Huston. Gable stars as Gay Langland, an aging hand traveling the byways and working at rodeos with his two comrades, Guido (Eli Wallach) and young Perce Howland (Montgomery Clift). The three men come up with a plan to corral some misfit mustangs and sell them for dog food, but Gay's new girlfriend Roslyn Taber (Marilyn Monroe), a high-minded ex-stripper who has just divorced her husband Ray (Kevin McCarthy) in Reno, is appalled by the plan. Although both Guido and Perce are also in love with Roslyn, she stands by Gay, sure that in the end he will do the right thing, even as he and his pals begin their planned roundup.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 13 May, 2008.