Official AVForums Blu-ray Review: My Week with Marilyn

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Reviewed by Cas Harlow, 28th March 2012.
Marilyn Monroe. America’s quintessential female sex symbol.

In her brief 36 years on the planet she spent over 16 years in Hollywood and made an average of two movies a year, starring in over a dozen of them. Yet both during and after this time scant few people could honestly admit to knowing the woman herself; the woman behind the iconic name and everything that went with it. You see she was not always a world-renowned sex symbol; indeed many would claim that “Marilyn Monroe” was nothing but a facade, a thin veneer protecting the fragile, damaged and vulnerable and very human girl beneath all the makeup, drugs and distracting dresses.

Born Norma Jean Mortensen, raised Norma Jean Baker, the girl-who-would-become-known-as-Marilyn-Monroe spent her childhood shuffling from foster home to foster home due to her mother’s mental instability. She first married when she was just 16, and was divorced by 20, after her new career...


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