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Many moons ago, I remember my father speculating at how many pictures could've been taken of Marilyn during her lifetime. She was certainly photogenic and arguably the most famous woman in the world in the 1950s. There are still pictures of here that I've yet to see, and it's always a pleasant...

Not every film is a winner, and Marilyn did make a few duds in her career. Let's Make Love (1960) is a misfire. It takes the mistaken identity trope that Pillow Talk (1959) recently popularized and mixes it up with a "mod" musical and it just doesn't mesh well. Yves Montand was a bland leading...

I bought a copy of O. HENRY'S FULL HOUSE off eBay earlier this year. It was in fairly good condition. When I received it, I opened it and looked at the little pamphlet in it, then placed in order on my shelf. Haven't looked at it since. I just wanted it to have it.

Well, there are many dime store releases of HOME TOWN STORY out there. You could just pick which DVD cover tickles your fancy because all the prints are going to be basically the same. HOME TOWN STORY has been in the public domain, and it's recycled and sold a lot. I believe LADIES OF THE...

I've got almost all of Marilyn's movies on either DVD or Blu-ray. The only ones I'm missing are: DANGEROUS YEARS SCUDDA HOO! SCUDDA HAY! LOVE HAPPY RIGHT CROSS THE FIREBALL A TICKET TO TOMAHAWK I've got all the rest of them. I'm very familiar with her work in every aspect of her film...

I watched the MARILYN documentary once many years ago when it was on YouTube. It was well-produced, but I cannot really remember enough about it to say how much I liked it.

Every once in a while, I get the itch to watch some of Marilyn's earlier pictures. I was lucky enough to find a copy of LADIES OF THE CHORUS, the only film Monroe did for Columbia Pictures during her brief contract with the studio in 1948. It is a low-budget musical that barely runs an hour, but...

I know there's a lot of fans that regard BUS STOP as her finest performance, but I personally think her work in THE MISFITS is better. They both stretch her talents and show that she was fully capable of doing something other than some variation of the dumb blonde stereotype. THE PRINCE AND...

BUS STOP was the first film Marilyn did after leaving movies for a year to study at the Actors Studio in New York. Twentieth Century-Fox had purchased the rights to the Broadway play with the hope that Monroe would agree to star. She readily agreed, although director Joshua Logan and her...

Yeah, it's fairly well-known that Marilyn and Yves Montand had a fling off-screen. The "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" number is superb and a definitive Monroe moment captured on film. It's up there with the white skirt scene, her entertaining soldiers in Korea, and singing "Happy Birthday" to...

LET'S MAKE LOVE is Marilyn's worst effort, and that's an opinion that most of her fans share. The movie itself had a complicated production. It was originally tabled in 1959 as a possible vehicle for Gregory Peck, James Stewart, or Gary Cooper, but none of the three were interested. The male...

@JimJasper Not sure if you are aware or not, but singer-actress Abbey Lincoln wore the same dress for her cameo in THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT, the hilarious and beautifully photographed rock-n-roll romantic comedy starring Monroe-esque Jayne Mansfield.

The image of Marilyn and Jane Russell parading down the "main strip" of the boat's dining area. They were both exceptionally beautiful in that scene. They were both exceptionally in that movie. PERIOD. Here's another shot of Marilyn in that same orange dress after she's seated at her table...

I ain't even that picky. I'd be satisfied if Columbia Classics would get off their rocker and put it out on DVD. I honestly cannot see why this movie's been held up as long as it has been. It's been out in Australia or somewhere, I think, and here I am just pondering away at my keyboard waiting...

What about those Could've Been Marilyn Monroe movies? Anyone that's done any studying on Marilyn knows there were several movies she wanted to do and didn't and some she refused. Let's deduce some of those: THE GIRL IN PINK TIGHTS (although a newspaper article from 1953─54 simply calls the...

THE MISFITS is one of my favorites of hers. I think it contains her finest performance on film. She was at her loveliest and most vulnerable as Rosalyn, a recent divorcee trying to find her place in the world whilst getting tangled up with three misfit cowboys searching for their own identities...

Oh yes, how could I forget that one? DON'T BOTHER TO KNOCK is usually touted as her first starring role, even though she had headlined the B-movie musical LADIES OF THE CHORUS four years earlier. DON'T BOTHER TO KNOCK is actually a very good throwback film noir. It runs just over an hour, but...

HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE is stale when compared to GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES and NIAGARA, even though all three are career-defining performances for her in 1953. NIAGARA was her breakthrough film, and one of her first major dramatic roles. She dazzles in one of the rarer representations of film...

ALL ABOUT EVE is one of my favorite classic films. Even if I didn't like any of the actors in it, I'd still love this movie. It's a fabulous example of old Hollywood at its finest. The acting, writing, directing, humor is all superb. It's practically flawless. Even though it's Bette Davis and...

I cannot wait to watch RIVER OF NO RETURN on Blu-ray. Might do that this evening (time permitting).

RIVER OF NO RETURN was the first movie I ever saw her in. My dad had bought me a collection of her films, and this is the only one he would agree to watch with me. He remembered seeing it on AMC or somewhere and liking it. We watched it the very night I got them in the mail, and it has been one...

Marilyn Monroe almost single-handedly represents the embodiment of classic Hollywood glamour and style. Her image is blazed across everything from pillowcases to shot glasses. She's probably even more famous today than she was in her time. I figured we'd do a little discussion her on Marilyn's...