Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days

Name: Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days
Director: Patty Ivins
Released: 2001
Duration: 117 min
Rating: 7.7
Cast: James Coburn, Gene Allen, George Barris, Walter Bernstein, David Brown

2001 · 117 MIN · IMDB 7.7 · 911 VOTES · DIR. Patty Ivins

Overview

Marilyn Monroe's final project, ""Something's Got to Give"", has become one of the most talked about unfinished films in history. The story of the film and Marilyn's last days were seemingly lost… until now. Through interviews, never-before-seen footage and an edited reconstruction of ""Something's Got to Give"", Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days provides a definitive and fascinating look at the last act in the life of the world's most famous and tragic superstar.

Dialogue Timeline — 799 lines

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00:00:21 ...Marilyn Monroe was set to go before the cameras for her 30th film.

00:03:07 ...and Fox was facing financial problems...

00:06:03 NARRATOR: But the producers knew they had problems much bigger...

00:08:28 Rockefeller.

00:10:51 Cleopatra was still massively over budget...

00:13:59 WElNSTElN: When l came there, she's spread across her bed...

00:16:38 ...and she could have big swings in her moods.

00:18:55 Marilyn left for New York to work on her role...

00:21:30 ...including famed playwright Arthur Miller, whom she later married.

00:24:15 Every time you started a picture you're up because it's new.

00:26:34 But Hollywood was quite appropriately agog at meeting foreign royalty.

00:28:52 NARRATOR: On Tuesday, May 1, Marilyn was on the set at 7 a.m...

00:31:05 He'd call me in and say, ''Sit. Nothing'll happen.

00:33:19 They couldn't afford to lose money.

00:35:32 TRAlNER: Good, Jeb. Watch it. Jeb, speak!

00:37:48 ...universally unpopular on the set.

00:40:18 And l'd like to know what questions to ask.''

00:42:28 WOMAN: lt was hard, because had her children lived...

00:44:49 A week earlier, he had sent a letter stating:

00:47:33 GENE ALLEN: Well, it was very upsetting to Cukor.

00:49:53 After three takes, she tore it off...

00:52:29 And she did.

00:54:54 ...to pose as the man with whom she spent five years on the island.

00:57:18 Even for the rainy season?

Cast & Characters

James Coburn Narrator Gene Allen Self George Barris Self Walter Bernstein Self David Brown Self Cyd Charisse Self

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed799

Dialogue density6.8 lines / min

First line00:00:21

Final line00:57:18

Production Record

DirectorPatty Ivins

LanguageItalian

IMDb votes911