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by - written on 22/05/07 (Useful, 65 readings)
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Colin Clark is brother of famous MP Alan Clark. In the summer of 1956, aged 23 he worked as gofer on "The Prince and the Showgirl" starring Marlin Monroe. This was Marlin’s first film in England. Colin arranged for Marlin and her entourage to stay in a lovely house in tiny village of Englefield Green. Monroe was the most famous actress in the world. Colin writes about the nine days he spent with her. He writes about the friendship that grew between Clark and Monroe, it is a very personal account of him writing about the very personal things about Monroe her fears, insecurity and happiness. The emotional side of Monroe is rarely covered in other ... Read the complete review
by - written on 21/05/07 (Very useful, 115 readings)
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I have recently been rebuilding my Marilyn Monroe collection and have bought several books, so that I now have around thirty on her. Most are the standard biographies, full of facts we all know already and rumours we don’t believe. But this book is something different. My Week With Marilyn is a memoir of Colin Clark, Alan Clark’s brother. Colin was third assistant director on the 1956 film The Prince and the Showgirl, starring Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier. He got the job mainly through being a family friend of the Oliviers and was expected to be loyal to Sir Larry on the film set. However, that was without factoring the allure of Miss Marilyn ... Read the complete review
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