Hometown Story: Released in May 1951 featuring a stunning young Marilyn Monroe on the brink of stardom. It is a rare glimpse of Monroe before her breakthrough roles in 'Niagara' and 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' which catapulted her to fame... and into history. Monroe plays Iris Martin a secretary whose boss is an editor of a newspaper who suspects that big business is reponsible for his recent defeat in a state legislature election. He begins a campaign against his opponent...
The Marilyn Monroe Story a documentary about the life and career of this much loved star narrated by director John Huston (who worked with her on ""The Misfits"") includes interviews with friends cast and crew who worked with Monroe 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.
One of Marilyn Monroe's earliest starring roles (of her ten previous films she had been uncredited in four of them) finds her playing the newspaper office receptionist Iris. The paper is run by Blake Washburn who has just been defeated in a bid for re-election to the state senate and uses the paper to ruffle big business.
Marilyn Monroe: Memories & Mysteries
A three DVD box set featuring 'Hometown Story' 'Marilyn At The Movies' and 'Portrait Of A Legend'. In 'Home Town Story' Marilyn makes an early appearance in the tale of a failed political candidate who uses his job as a newspaper editor to attack big business and the man who defeated him. 'Marilyn At The Movies' features interviews with the people who knew her including her first husband and her foster parents. 'Portrait Of A Legend' is the story of the film star Marilyn Monroe - from childhood to legend.
Blake Washburn blames manufacturer MacFarland for his defeat in the race for re-election to the state legislature. He takes over his uncles newspaper to take on big business as an enemy of the people. Miss Martin (Marilyn Monroe) works in the Herald newspaper office. When tragedy strikes Blake must re-examine his views.
Of Human Bondage: The love that lifted a man to paradise and hurled him back to earth again! This film is based on W. Somerset Maugham's classic novel of a young medical student's strange infatuation with a cheap and vulgar cockney waitress (Bette Davis). The infatuation turns into a mutually destructive affair. This is the film that brought Bette Davis to fame and secured her future roles as a tough domineering woman. Fine acting by the entire cast with Davis an absolu
Home Town Story: Jeffrey Lynn plays an ex-politician who blames big business for his failure to get re-elected. To expose big business as an evil monster he joins his uncle's newspaper. When his little sister is caught in a cave-in the town's largest company comes to her aid and he must now reconsider. The Marilyn Monroe Story: The private and public life of one of Hollywood's great legends. From her small town roots to glittering stardom in Tinseltown from her meteoric rise to fame to her tragic death by her own hands you witness the life of one of America's true sex godesses like never seen before.
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