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Michelle Williams 5 Favorite Marilyn Monroe Performances


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During the preparation to her role as Marilyn Monroe, Michelle Williams watched all the movies, read all the books and researched all the tapes with an iconic star. Here is a selection of 5 of Michelle's favorite Marilyn performances.
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All About Eve

"She's very young. It's one of her first roles. What I love about it is that you can see her developing 'Marilyn Monroe,' this character, and you can see also how talented she really was. She was starting with something. She doubted...
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River of No Return

"Don't watch it for the filmmaking but I just love her musical numbers."
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The Prince and the Showgirl

"The movie meanders quite a bit, and is much longer than it needs to be, and suffers from a kind of stiffness -- except for Marilyn! It's one of her greatest performances. Her comic timing in the drawing room scenes -- nothing about making...
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Some Like It Hot

“There is such a thing as perfection. The entire movie is sublime. And that last line: 'Well, nobody's perfect.'"
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The Misfits

THE MISFITS "It was Marilyn's only opportunity to play a dramatic role. It's a very strange movie. I don't know why I love it as much as I do -- maybe, because the collaboration Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Eli Wallach, and Montgomery...
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