Marilyn Monroe: Volume 2

Seven films featuring screen legend Marilyn Monroe. In 'How to Marry a Millionaire' (1953), three models (Lauren Bacall, Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable) rent an expensive New York apartment and set out to catch millionaire husbands. Suitable millionaires prove to be thin on the ground, however, and all three find that true love wins out after all - especially for Bacall, whose choice turns out to have been a millionaire all along. This was the first modern comedy in Cinemascope. Irving Berlin provides the score for the musical 'There's No Business Like Showbusiness' (1954), which follows the fortunes of two generations of a vaudevillian family. The parents are music hall partners, while their children pursue their own dreams: one deliberates whether to join the priesthood, while another is engaged in more secular activities, attempting to woo a hatcheck girl-cum-singer, played by Monroe. In 'Let's Make Love' (1960), a multi-millionaire learns that he is to be caricatured in an off-Broadway show, and he tries to have the play stopped. However, he falls for the female lead (Monroe), and decides that he should join the cast, playing himself. In 'Monkey Business' (1952), a research scientist (Cary Grant) concocts an elixir of youth which is accidentally distributed around the office when a laboratory monkey tips it into the water cooler. The scientist reverts to a teenager, his wife (Ginger Rogers) to a child and mayhem ensues. Monroe features as a secretary in this classic screwball comedy, directed by Howard Hawks. In 'The Seven Year Itch' (1955), happily-married Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell) is left in New York City while his wife and child go on summer vacation. His lively imaginings of what a summer of freedom has in store seem to have some validity when a beautiful and sensuous young girl (Monroe) moves into the sublet upstairs. The romantic comedy 'Let's Make It Legal' (1951) stars Claudette Colbert and Macdonald Carey as Miriam and Hugh Halsworth, an elegant elderly couple who have finally reached the end of the road of their long marriage - or so it seems. Hugh is a chronic gambler and Miriam has had enough of it, especially when her old flame Victor (Zachary Scott), now a millionaire, shows up in town. Robert Wagner and Marilyn Monroe, two of Fox's then up-and-coming young actors, play supporting roles. 'As Young as You Feel' (1951) is a workplace comedy starring Monty Woolley as John Hodges, a 65-year-old man who, forced into retirement by his employers at the Acme Printing company, decides to fight back. He decides to impersonate Harold Cleveland, the president of the printers' parent corporation, and arrives to carry out an inspection tour - and alter a few details of the company policy. Monroe plays Harriet, the boss's beautiful secretary, and Constance Bennet also co-stars as the boss's wife, Lucille, who becomes infatuated with Hodges' new persona.

Actor: Donald O'Connor
Actor: Esther Dale
Music: Leigh Harline
Actor: Emmett Lynn
Actor: Jerry Sheldon
Actor: Douglas Spencer
Actor: Constance Bennett
Music: Arthur Hammerstein
Music: Dudley Wilkinson
Actor: Carol Savage
Director: Harmon Jones
Actor: Renie Riano
Actor: Marguerite Chapman
Actor: Tom Ewell
Producer: Charles K. Feldman
Actor: Victor Moore
Actor: Sonny Tufts
Actor: Oskar Homolka
Actor: Bing Crosby
Actor: Frank Cady
Actor: Milton Berle
Actor: Zachary Scott
Actor: Macdonald Carey
Actor: Allyn Joslyn
Director: Walter Lang
Actor: Frank McHugh
Actor: Robert Strauss
Producer: Nunnally Johnson
Writer: Nunnally Johnson
Actor: Ludwig Stössel
Actor: Wilfrid Hyde-White
Director: Howard Hawks
Actor: Tony Randall
Actor: Robert Wagner
Actor: Minor Watson
Actor: Larry Keating
Actor: Barbara Bates
Actor: Jean Peters
Actor: Yves Montand
Actor: Claudette Colbert
Actor: Monty Woolley
Actor: Mitzi Gaynor
Actor: Frankie Vaughan
Actor: David Burns
Actor: Donald MacBride
Music: Alfred Newman
Music: Irving Berlin
Actor: Clinton Sundberg
Writer: Charles Lederer
Writer: Ben Hecht
Writer: I.A.L. Diamond
Director: Billy Wilder
Producer: Billy Wilder
Writer: Billy Wilder
Writer: George Axelrod
Actor: Dan Dailey
Actor: Johnnie Ray
Actor: Marilyn Monroe
Director: George Cukor
Actor: Cary Grant
Actor: Ginger Rogers
Actor: Gene Kelly
Actor: Charles Coburn
Actor: Hugh Marlowe
Actor: Henri Leondal
Actor: Robert Cornthwaite
Actor: George Winslow
Director: Jean Negulesco
Actor: Thelma Ritter
Actor: Betty Grable
Actor: Lauren Bacall
Actor: William Powell
Actor: Rory Calhoun
Actor: David Wayne
Actor: Alex d'Arcy
Actor: Cameron Mitchell
Actor: Ethel Merman
Music: Cyril Mockridge
Actor: Fred Clark
Writer: F. Hugh Herbert
Director: Richard Sale
Producer: Sol C. Siegel
Producer: Lamar Trotti
Writer: Lamar Trotti
Actor: Albert Dekker
Producer: Robert Bassler
Actor: Evelyn Keyes
Actor: Roxanne
Actor: Hugh O'Brian