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My Week with Marilyn

Year:

2011

Duration:

99 min

Genres:

Biography | Drama

IMDB rate:

Director:

Simon Curtis

Awards:

Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 22 wins & 53 nominations

Details

Country: UK

Release Date: 2011-12-23

Filming Locations: Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK

Earnings

Opening Weekend: $1,773,000 (USA) (25 November 2011)

Gross: $14,581,677 (USA) (25 March 2012)

Cast

Actor

Character

Geraldine Somerville

My Week with Marilyn

Emma Watson

My Week with Marilyn

Michelle Williams

Marilyn Monroe

Eddie Redmayne

Colin Clark

Julia Ormond

Vivien Leigh

Kenneth Branagh

Sir Laurence Olivier

Pip Torrens

Sir Kenneth Clark

Michael Kitchen

Hugh Perceval

Miranda Raison

Vanessa

Karl Moffatt

Jack Cardiff

Simon Russell Beale

Cotes-Preedy

Toby Jones

Arthur Jacobs

Robert Portal

David Orton

Philip Jackson

Roger Smith

Jim Carter

Barry

Victor McGuire

Andy

Dougray Scott

Arthur Miller

Richard Attlee

Reporter #1

Michael Hobbs

Reporter #2

Brooks Livermore

Reporter #3

Rod O'Grady

Reporter #4

Dominic Cooper

Milton Greene

Richard Clifford

Richard Wattis

Judi Dench

Dame Sybil Thorndike

Zoë Wanamaker

Paula Strasberg

Gerard Horan

Trevor

Alex Lowe

Denys Coop

Georgie Glen

Rosamund Greenwood

Richard Shelton

Waiter

Peter Wight

Lucy's Father

Paul Herzberg

Paul Hardwick

James Clay

Jeremy Spenser

Des McAleer

Senior Policeman

Derek Jacobi

Sir Owen Morshead

Jem Wall

Spectator

Ben Sando

Schoolboy #1

Josh Morris

Schoolboy #2

David Rintoul

Dr. Connell

Penny Ryder

Sybil Thorndike Double

Sean Vanderwilt

Male Dancer #1

Adam Perry

Male Dancer #2

Peter Brown

Police Officer (uncredited)

Steve Conway

Focus Puller (uncredited)

Luc Eden

Passer-by (uncredited)

Steve Paice

Billy Jones (uncredited)

Martin Poole

Clapperboy (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

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).

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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.

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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.

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Goofs

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.

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On the label of one of the medicine bottles next to Marilyn's bed, the branded barbiturate Tuinal is misspelled as "Tunial".

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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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Quotes

Dame Sybil Thorndike: She should use more mascara. When one is young, one should use a lot of mascara. When one is old, they should use much more.

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Title Card: 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. 1 of 1 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options 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.

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Sir Laurence Olivier: It's like teaching Urdu to a badger.

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Faq

What happened to Colin Clark after the events of this movie?

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.

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