The Story
Product Description
Marilyn Monroe invented her public persona at the expense of concealing
a private side known only to her close confidants. Fifty years after
her death, her creation still blazes brightly in our cultural
imagination, while the creator continues to lurk in the shadows.
Drawing on never-before-seen personal papers, diaries and letters,
Academy-award nominated director Liz Garbus worked with acclaimed
actresses to evoke the multiple aspects of the real Marilyn - passion,
ambition, soul-searching, power and fear – in an absorbing and
astonishing portrait. These documents, brought to life in this film by
some of our contemporary icons and stars, give us a new and revelatory
understanding of Monroe, revealing her carefully guarded inner life.
Love, Marilyn features Elizabeth Banks, Ellen Burstyn, Glenn Close,
Viola Davis, Jennifer Ehle, Lindsay Lohan, Lili Taylor, Uma Thurman,
Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood. Rounding out this portrait, Adrien
Brody, Hope Davis, Ben Foster, Paul Giamatti, Janet McTeer, Oliver
Platt and David Strathairn bring to life the writings of Billy Wilder,
Natasha Lytess, Truman Capote, Gloria Steinem and Norman Mailer,
completing the image of this very flesh-and-blood young woman in thrall
to ambition, imagination, demons, and fear who, over time, came to
embrace life, friendship, and the possibility of her future.
