Marilyn

Matt · October 2015

http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/archiveitem/7729567.html

Check the measurements, looks the same.

David · October 2015

Forgot we had this thread (dammit), better update my ones of the one and only

Don't Bother To Knock (1952) Daybill

Bus Stop (1956) French 1 Panel

Image: http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd421/SilhouetteNSW/French%20and%20Belgian%20Posters/FR1P-Bus-Stop-1956-120x160_zpsaohdagnr.jpg~original

David · December 2015

Came across this little tribute to Marilyn, her films and some of the posters. Just added a few more to my want list. Dammit.

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by Steve Lensman

A Chronology of Marilyn Monroe Movie Posters 1949-1961

Marilyn Monroe was born 'Norma Jeane Mortenson' in Los Angeles, California on June 1st, 1926.

She received a Golden Globe nomination for Bus Stop (1956) and won Best Actress for her role as Sugar Kane Kowalczyk in the comedy classic Some Like it Hot (1959).

On August 5th, 1962 Marilyn Monroe was found dead at her home, the recorded cause of death was listed as "acute barbiturate poisoning". She was 36 years old.

A true Hollywood icon, Marilyn Monroe is credited with appearing in 26 films, this hub showcases poster art from 18 of her movies.

The Asphalt Jungle (1950) Italian poster

Love Happy (1949) Argentinian poster

Love Happy (1949) Directed by David Miller. 85mins.

Harpo Marx - Harpo
Chico Marx - Faustino the Great
Groucho Marx - Detective Sam Grunion
Ilona Massey - Madame Egelichi
Vera-Ellen - Maggie Phillips
Raymond Burr - Alphonse Zoto
Melville Cooper - Lefty Throckmorton
Eric Blore - Mackinaw
Marilyn Monroe - Grunion's Client

IMDB rating 5.8

The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

The Asphalt Jungle (1950) Belgian poster

The Asphalt Jungle (1950) Directed by John Huston. 112mins.

Sterling Hayden - Dix Handley
Louis Calhern - Alonzo D. Emmerich
Jean Hagen - Doll Conovan
James Whitmore - Gus Minissi
Sam Jaffe - Doc Erwin Riedenschneider
John McIntire - Police Commissioner Hardy
Marc Lawrence - Cobby
Marilyn Monroe - Angela Phinlay

IMDB rating 7.9

All About Eve (1950)

All About Eve (1950) Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. 138mins.

Bette Davis - Margo Channing
Anne Baxter - Eve Harrington
George Sanders - Addison DeWitt
Celeste Holm - Karen Richards
Gary Merrill - Bill Sampson
Hugh Marlowe - Lloyd Richards
Thelma Ritter - Birdie
Gregory Ratoff - Max Fabian
Marilyn Monroe - Miss Casswell

IMDB rating 8.4

Let's Make it Legal (1951)

Let's Make it Legal (1951) Directed by Richard Sale. 77mins.

Claudette Colbert - Miriam Halsworth
Macdonald Carey - Hugh Halsworth
Zachary Scott - Victor Macfarland
Barbara Bates - Barbara Denham
Robert Wagner - Jerry Denham
Marilyn Monroe - Joyce Mannering

IMDB rating 6.1

Clash By Night (1952)

Clash By Night (1952) Directed by Fritz Lang. 105mins.

Barbara Stanwyck - Mae Doyle D'Amato
Paul Douglas - Jerry D'Amato
Robert Ryan - Earl Pfeiffer
Marilyn Monroe - Peggy
Keith Andes - Joe Doyle
J. Carrol Naish - Uncle Vince

IMDB rating 7.0

Don't Bother to Knock (1952)

Don't Bother to Knock (1952) Italian poster

Don't Bother to Knock (1952)Directed by Roy Ward Baker. 76mins

Richard Widmark - Jed Towers
Marilyn Monroe - Nell Forbes
Anne Bancroft - Lyn Lesley
Donna Corcoran - Bunny Jones
Jeanne Cagney - Rochelle
Elisha Cook Jr. - Eddie Forbes

IMDB rating 6.7

Monkey Business (1952)

Monkey Business (1952) Directed by Howard Hawks. 97mins

Cary Grant - Dr. Barnaby Fulton
Ginger Rogers - Edwina Fulton
Marilyn Monroe - Lois Laurel
Charles Coburn - Oliver Oxley
Hugh Marlowe - Hank Entwhistle
Robert Cornthwaite - Dr. Zoldeck
Douglas Spencer - Dr. Brunner

IMDB rating 7.1

Niagara (1953) Belgian poster

Niagara (1953)

Niagara (1953) Directed by Henry Hathaway. 92mins.

Marilyn Monroe - Rose Loomis
Joseph Cotten - George Loomis
Jean Peters - Polly Cutler
Max Showalter - Ray Cutler
Denis O'Dea - Inspector Starkey
Richard Allan - Patrick

IMDB rating 7.0

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)Directed by Howard Hawks. 91mins.

Marilyn Monroe - Lorelei Lee
Jane Russell - Dorothy Shaw
Charles Coburn - Sir Francis Beekman
Elliott Reid - Ernie Malone
Tommy Noonan - Gus Esmond
Norma Varden - Lady Beekman
George Winslow - Henry Spofford III

IMDB rating 7.1

How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)

How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)Directed by Jean Negulesco. 95mins

Betty Grable - Loco Dempsey
Marilyn Monroe - Pola Debevoise
Lauren Bacall - Schatze Page
David Wayne - Freddie Denmark
Rory Calhoun - Eben
Cameron Mitchell - Tom Brookman
Fred Clark - Waldo Brewster
William Powell - J.D. Hanley

IMDB rating 6.9

River of No Return (1954)

River of No Return (1954) Directed by Otto Preminger. 81mins.

Robert Mitchum - Matt Calder
Marilyn Monroe - Kay Weston
Tommy Rettig - Mark Calder
Rory Calhoun - Harry Weston
Douglas Spencer - Sam Benson
Murvyn Vye - Dave Colby

IMDB rating 6.6

There's No Business Like Show Business (1954) Belgian poster

There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)

There's No Business Like Show Business (1954) Directed by Walter Lang. 117mins.

Ethel Merman - Molly Donahue
Dan Dailey - Terence Donahue
Marilyn Monroe - Victoria Hoffman
Donald O'Connor - Tim Donahue
Mitzi Gaynor - Katy Donahue
Johnnie Ray - Steve Donahue
Hugh O'Brian - Charles Gibbs

IMDB rating 6.5

The Seven Year Itch (1955)

The Seven Year Itch (1955) French poster

The Seven Year Itch (1955) Directed by Billy Wilder. 105mins.

Marilyn Monroe - The Girl
Tom Ewell - Richard Sherman
Evelyn Keyes - Helen Sherman
Sonny Tufts - Tom MacKenzie
Robert Strauss - Kruhulik
Oscar Homolka - Dr. Brubaker
Carolyn Jones - Miss Finch

IMDB rating 7.3

Bus Stop (1956) Belgian poster

Bus Stop (1956)

Bus Stop (1956) Directed by Joshua Logan. 96mins.

Marilyn Monroe - ChÃ©rie
Don Murray - Beauregard "Bo" Decker
Arthur O'Connell - Virgil Blessing
Betty Field - Grace
Eileen Heckart - Vera
Robert Bray - Carl
Hope Lange - Elma Duckworth

IMDB rating 6.7

The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) Belgian poster

The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) Italian poster

The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)Directed by Laurence Olivier. 115mins.

Marilyn Monroe - Elsie Marina
Laurence Olivier - Charles, Prince Regent of Carpathia
Sybil Thorndike - The Queen Dowager
Richard Wattis - Northbrook
Jeremy Spenser - King Nicolas of Carpathia
Paul Hardwick - Major Domo
Esmond Knight - Colonel Hoffman
Maxine Audley - Lady Sunningdale

IMDB rating 6.5

Some Like it Hot (1959)

Some Like it Hot (1959) Spanish poster

Some Like it Hot (1959) Directed by Billy Wilder. 120mins.

Marilyn Monroe - Sugar Kane Kowalczyk
Tony Curtis - Joe /Josephine /Junior
Jack Lemmon - Jerry /Geraldine /Daphne
George Raft - Spats Colombo
Pat O'Brien - Detective Mulligan
Joe E. Brown - Osgood Fielding III
Nehemiah Persoff - Little Bonaparte

IMDB rating 8.4

Let's Make Love (1960)

Let's Make Love (1960) Japanese poster

Let's Make Love (1960) Directed by George Cukor. 119mins

Marilyn Monroe - Amanda Dell
Yves Montand - Jean-Marc Clement
Tony Randall - Alexander Coffman
Frankie Vaughan - Tony Danton
Wilfrid Hyde-White - George Welch

IMDB rating 6.3

The Misfits (1961) Italian poster

The Misfits (1961) Spanish poster

The Misfits (1961) Directed by John Huston. 124mins.

Clark Gable - Gay Langland
Marilyn Monroe - Roslyn Tabor
Montgomery Clift - Perce Howland
Thelma Ritter - Isabelle Steers
Eli Wallach - Guido
Kevin McCarthy - Raymond Tabor
Estelle Winwood - The Church Lady

IMDB rating 7.3

River of No Return (1954) Japanese poster

Mark · July 2016

Has anyone ever seen any Aus posters on this title?
Released in US as Monkey Business.

Image: http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/hh557/ozcinemagic/be%20your%20age.jpg

David · July 2016

Oh FFS

http://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/-1-c-1BB43A6A83?utm_source=inv_kwalert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=keywordalertlive&utm_term=2

Matt · July 2016

Nope.

papergatherer · July 2016

And with an estimated value of $100-200?

Ugh!

theartofmovieposters · July 2016

Mark said:

Has anyone ever seen any Aus posters on this title?
Released in US as Monkey Business.

I want to say yes...but seriously, my memory is failing me badly! In the early days, I never really paid that close attention to grabbing images etc...

I can't be certain, and could certainly be getting it mixed up with something else.

HONDO · July 2016

I have never seen an image of Be Your Age so it is indeed rare. I am still looking for an image of An Affair To Remember, another rare Cary Grant daybill.

papergatherer · July 2016

An Affair To Remember daybill (this could have been done MUCH better, considering the nice artwork that done & used on the AU one sheet. (Emovie, tho, does describe this as a stock poster):

The poster, as mentioned, is quite nice:

HONDO · July 2016

There was a very nice daybill of An Affair To Remember printed for the original 1957 release and I did sight it many years ago. This poster is the only example I have ever sighted. The version you have shown is a stock poster printed years later that includes the image of some 1959 titles. From memory the original daybill had a white background.

HONDO · July 2016

As Young As You Feel ( 1951 ) is another rare poster to find Australian paper for. Bruce sold a daybill in the past and is the only image of Australian paper of this title I remember seeing. The image of Marilyn isn't the greatest though. On saying that I am surprised the poster in very good condition only sold for $44 in 2011.

HONDO · July 2016

An interesting piece of information is although Marilyn Monroe's name is credited on the U.S. insert and other paper her name has been left off the daybill. The reduced amount of credits on 20th Century Fox daybills was common in the 1950s. I am wondering if Marilyn's name being left off the daybill would have contributed to what I consider a very conservative price realised as not being higher.

HONDO · July 2016

There are a few of Marilyn's early posters, where she was billed on oversea artwork that we appear to be missing images of in daybill form.

Apart from Be Your Age ( Monkey Business ) there is also We're Not Married, Love Nest and The Fireball. Anyone every sighted them ?

HONDO · July 2016

HONDO said:

There are a few of Marilyn's early posters, where she was billed on oversea artwork that we appear to be missing images of in daybill form.
Apart from Be Your Age ( Monkey Business ) there is also We're Not Married, Love Nest and The Fireball. Anyone every sighted them ?

:Let's add the original 1950 daybill version of The Asphalt Jungle to the wants list.

Matt · July 2016

Ves will help you out with one of them.

HONDO · July 2016

Matt said:

Ves will help you out with one of them.

Sounds great.

theartofmovieposters · July 2016

Matt said:

Ves will help you out with one of them.

I will? Great...which one?

HONDO · July 2016

HONDO said:

HONDO said:

There are a few of Marilyn's early posters, where she was billed on oversea artwork that we appear to be missing images of in daybill form.
Apart from Be Your Age ( Monkey Business ) there is also We're Not Married, Love Nest and The Fireball. Anyone every sighted them ?

:Let's add the original 1950 daybill version of The Asphalt Jungle to the wants list.

theartofmovieposters said:

Matt said:

Ves will help you out with one of them.

I will? Great...which one?

Any of the five I mentioned above if you happen to have any of them ?

theartofmovieposters · July 2016

No I don't have any of them...unless Matt knows something I don't???

I think he is getting LOVE NEST confused with LOVE HAPPY...

HONDO · July 2016

Thanks for responding Ves.

Matt · July 2016

theartofmovieposters said:

I think he is getting LOVE NEST confused with LOVE HAPPY...

That I am!

Mark · July 2016

Not long ago there was a daybill on ebay where MM was pictured but not credited. All I can remember is four floating heads at the top with MM on the far right.

David · July 2016

A Daybill with a picture of MM...it's a daybill, how can you be sure it was MM?!

HONDO · July 2016

The poster in question is Let's Make It Legal from 1951. As was the case with another early Australian daybill from 20th Century Fox All About Eve ( 1951 ), and unlike the U.S. posters where name credits appear as well as images, in Australia on the two daybills only images and no name credits appear.

David · July 2016

HONDO · July 2016

I will shorty write about some early Marilyn Monroe daybills where an image appears but with no name credit and also where name credit does appear but without any image. U.S. paper in all cases has both.

David · July 2016

I swear I have Home Town Story (1951) daybill somewhere, a minor part played but she gets a mention and an image on the poster

HONDO · July 2016

David said:

I swear I have Home Town Story (1951) daybill somewhere, a minor part played but she gets a mention and an image on the poster

Actually good image and billing size on this MGM released film on the daybill and one sheet.

HONDO · July 2016

We have spoken about Let's Make it Legal daybill from 1951 and The Asphalt Jungle daybill ( 1950 ) RR1954 previously.

Apart from the Australian daybill images not found for certain early films let us mention the daybills that have been sighted that Marilyn appeared in that are missing either name credits or images on the posters. Both name and images appear on U.S. paper of the titles.

As Young As You Feel ( 1951 ) daybill has large image but no name credit appears.

All About Eve ( 1950 ) daybill has an image but no name credit appears.

O'Henry's Full House ( 1952 ) daybill had a name credit appearing but no image although on Australian one sheet there is an image as well as the name credit.

Marilyn

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