Top billed cast

1. 

   Michelle Williams

   Marilyn Monroe

2. 

   Kenneth Branagh

   Sir Laurence Olivier

3. 

   Eddie Redmayne

   Colin Clark

4. 

   Dominic Cooper

   Milton Greene

5. 

   Philip Jackson

   Roger Smith

6. 

   Derek Jacobi

   Sir Owen Morshead

7. 

   Toby Jones

   Arthur Jacobs

8. 

   Michael Kitchen

   Hugh Perceval

9. 

   Julia Ormond

   Vivien Leigh

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-07-10

I reckon this might be my favourite effort from Michelle Williams as she plays the eponymous screen legend who arrives in the UK to play opposite Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) in "The Prince and the Showgirl". Meantime, budding writer Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne) is desparate to get into the film industry and so has been doorstepping producer Hugh Perceval (Michael Kitchen) for ages. Eventually, he gets a foot in the door the a chance introduction to Sir Larry leads to another one with Monroe and soon young Clark finds himself tasked with keeping this increasingly flaky woman on messa...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$6,400,000.00

Revenue
$35,100,000.00

Keywords

• husband wife relationship
• countryside
• based on novel or book
• cinema on cinema
• movie business
• platonic love
• biography
• historical figure
• filmmaking
• older woman younger man relationship
• movie star
• 1950s