All About Eve. Poster of the 1950 movie and cover of the 1946 book, The Wisdom of Eve
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The Wisdom of Eve
Mary Orr, 1946
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950

Margo Channing is one of the biggest stars on Broadway. Eve tells the group gathered in Margo’s dressing room—Karen, Lloyd, Margo’s boyfriend, Bill Sampson, a director who is eight years her junior, and Margo’s maid Birdie —that she followed Margo’s last theatrical tour to New York City after seeing her perform in San Francisco.


Love, Marilyn. Poster of the 2012 movie and cover of the 2010 book, Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters
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Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters
Marilyn Monroe, 2010
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Liz Garbus, 2012

Marilyn Monroe had the most intense combination of glitter and tragedy of any celebrity in Hollywood history. This documentary examines the life and inner ideas of this influential movie actor through performed readings of her personal writings.


The Seven Year Itch. Poster of the 1955 movie and cover of the 1953 book
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The Seven Year Itch
George Axelrod, 1953
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Billy Wilder, 1955

Richard Sherman is a nerdy, faithful, middle-aged publishing executive with an overactive imagination and a mid-life crisis, whose wife and son are spending the summer in Maine. Sherman has an imaginary conversation with Helen, trying to convince her, in three fantasy sequences, that he is irresistible to women.


The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe. Poster of the 2015 TV series and cover of the 2009 book
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The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe
J. Randy Taraborrelli, 2009
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Laurie Collyer, 2015

A chronicle of Marilyn Monroe’s family life, her relationship with her mother, Gladys Pearl Baker, and how she succeeded in hiding her most intimate secrets from the press and an invasive world.


Marilyn: The Untold Story. Poster of the 1980 movie and cover of the 1973 book, Marilyn
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Marilyn
Norman Mailer, 1973
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Jack Arnold, John Flynn, 1980

The story of how Norma Jean, once an orphan in Hollywood California, becomes Marilyn Monroe, the movie star and celebrity. The movie begins with Norma Jean as a child and ends with the mysterious way she dies. Throughout the movie, we see the highlights and lowlights of her career, including the parts of her private life not widely known.


Nobody Else But You. Poster of the 2011 movie and cover of the 2006 book, Marilyn Monroe Returns
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Marilyn Monroe Returns
Adrian Finkelstein, 2006
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Gérald Hustache-Mathieu, 2011

Rousseau is a bestselling crime novelist from Paris, troubled by writer’s block. Candice Lecoeur is a local beauty, gracing the famous ‘Belle de Jura’ cheese packaging, who has gotten it into her head that she might well be the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe. The two will meet in the coldest village in France, but only after Candice has been found dead.


Blonde. Poster of the 2001 TV series and cover of the 2000 book
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Blonde
Joyce Carol Oates, 2000
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Joyce Chopra, 2001

A fictional biography of Marilyn Monroe mixed with series of real events in her life: childhood years, first marriage to James Dougherty, meeting with the photographer Otto Ose, career with XX Century Fox, relationship with her mother, foster parents, life wasters Charles Chaplin Jr. and Edward G. Robinson Jr., baseball player Joe DiMaggio, playwright Arthur Miller and many other people.


Blonde. Poster of the 2022 movie and cover of the 2000 book
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Blonde
Joyce Carol Oates, 2000
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Andrew Dominik, 2022

After a traumatic childhood, Norma Jeane Mortensen became an actress in the Hollywood of the 1950s and early 1960s. She became world famous under the pseudonym Marilyn Monroe. But her on-screen appearances are in stark contrast to the love issues, exploitation, abuse of power and medicament addiction she faced in her private life.