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My Week With Marilyn - Colin Clark

Description: ISBN 0006531792 / Author: Colin Clark / Genre: Biography / In 1956, fresh from Eton and Oxford, the 23-year-old Colin Clark (younger son ... more

My Week With Marilyn - Colin Clark ... of Lord Clark of Civilisation, younger brother of notorious maverick Tory MP and diarist Alan) worked as a humble gofer on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl, the film that united Sir Laurence Olivier (directing) with Marilyn Monroe, on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller. Nearly 40 years on, his diary account, was chosen as a book of the year, but one week was missing, and this is the story of that week: an idyll in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away from the pressures of working with Olivier and all the people with a vested interest in her. Her new husband Arthur Miller had gone to Paris, and the coast was clear for Colin to introduce her to some of the pleasures of British life.

Newest Review: ... first film in England. Colin arranged for Marlin and her entourage to stay in a lovely house in tiny village of Englefield ... more

... 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 books. The book recounts those nine days in great deal. When I was reading it I thought I was there watching everything happening in front of me. This August Mar...more

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My Week With Marilyn - Colin Clark: A thoroughly enjoyable and interesting read. (183 words)
by dave91 - written on 22.05.07 (Useful, 48 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 ...

Would You Share A Bed With Marilyn Monroe? (1037 words)
by karenuk - written on 21.05.07 (Very useful, 98 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 ...

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