Film · 2022

Becoming Marilyn

53 min · Directed by Michèle Dominici

7.619
ratings

The story of how Norma Jeane Mortenson became Marilyn Monroe (1926-62), a lucid path of self-discovery, from anonymity to stardom: the painful birth of a myth.

Cast

Agnès Jaoui

Self - Narrator (voice)

Georgia Scalliet

Marilyn (voice)

Marilyn Monroe

Self (archive footage)

Jean Harlow

(archive footage)

Ingrid Bergman

(archive footage)

Anita Ekberg

(archive footage)

Rita Hayworth

(archive footage)

Jane Russell

(archive footage)

Mae West

(archive footage)

Betty Grable

(archive footage)

Sharon Stone

(archive footage)

Jean Hagen

(archive footage)

Cary Grant

(archive footage)

Joan Collins

(archive footage)

Joe DiMaggio

(archive footage)

James Cagney

(archive footage)

Barbara Bates

(archive footage)

Mari Blanchard

(archive footage)

Humphrey Bogart

(archive footage)

Macdonald Carey

(archive footage)

Marie Dressler

(archive footage)

Louis Calhern

(archive footage)

Hattie McDaniel

(archive footage)

Donald O'Connor

(archive footage)

Crew

Director: Michèle Dominici

Details

Studios: ARTE, 3 Frères Productions
Countries: France
Languages: English, French
Release: July 7, 2022

Themes

cinema on cinemamovie businessbiographyhistorical figurehollywood starcinema historyportrait of an artisthollywood historyusa cinemafamous actress

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