Five actors from this movie have appeared in different Harry Potter movies: Kenneth Branagh (as Prof. Gilderoy Lockhart), Emma Watson (as Hermione Granger), Geraldine Somerville (as Lily Potter), Toby Jones (as the voice of Dobby) and Zoë Wanamaker (as Madam Hooch).
Michelle Williams was nominated for a BAFTA Best Actress Award for playing Marilyn Monroe during the filming of The Prince and the Showgirl (1957). Monroe was actually nominated for a BAFTA award for The Prince and the Showgirl (1957), for Best Foreign Actress.
Michelle Williams was nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award (Oscar) for her starring role playing Marilyn Monroe in this picture. In her career though, Monroe was never Oscar nominated.
In the opening sequence, Marilyn appears singing "Heat Wave" in the screen of a movie theater. She sang that Irving Berlin song in There's No Business Like Show Business with a totally different set and costumes.
In the screening room sequences, a close up of the projector lens reveals an anamorphic lens, which would be projecting the image in Cinemascope. "The Prince & The Showgirl" is not a wide-screen movie and rather shot in full academy, 1.37:1 aspect ratio. Furthermore, when the dailies are shown on screen, the image looks closer to 1.85:1, much wider than the original format of the movie.
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In 1956, at the height of her career, Marilyn Monroe went to England to make a film with Sir Laurence Olivier. While there she met a young man named Colin Clark, who wrote a diary about the making of the film. This is their true story.
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Colin Clark: Everyone remembers their first job. This is the story of mine. I was the youngest in a family of overachievers. My father was a world-famous art historian, and my brother was ahead of me in everything. I was always the disappointment.
What happened to Colin Clark after the events of this movie?
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He went on to have a successful career in film and television making. After retiring from filmmaking in the 1980s he became an author whose books included "My Week with Marilyn" and "The Prince, the Showgirl and Me," both of which form the basis for this film. He died in 2002 at the age of 70.