This movie portrays marilyn monroe as not coming on set on time and ill prepared. I don't trust the Colin Clark person who wrote the book. Are there any marilyn monroe bio pics that protray her in a nicer way? I have been thinking of writing a script where two boys time travel and meet Marilyn Monroe and they make her happy and the movie ends where she is still alive today.
But Marilyn was constantly late and holding up production, sometimes not even showing up at all. Her behavior on The Prince and the Showgirl set is well documented (not just by Clark), as is her butting heads with Olivier. Her behavior got worse over the years. Some Like it Hot and her last film The Misfits were riddled with her tardiness/absences, showing up on set drugged out, not being able to remember her lines. In fact, she was fired from her unfinished film Something's Got to Give for holding up production and costing the studio millions. She was eventually rehired (at the insistence of co-star Dean Martin), but she died shortly afterward.
That's not to say that she wasn't a nice person. Just unprofessional.
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Billy wilder was very vocal about her tardyness on Some Like It Hot- and said it took him ages to get it out of his system eg "I can now look at my wife without wanting to hit her because she's a woman!" In fact, her constant lateness on the set of Misfits might have contributed to the tension that killed Clark Gable with a heart attack.
shareApparently Marilyn felt terrible after Clark died because some people blamed her. Clark said a few days before he died 'that woman damn near gave me a heart attack.' Of course its ridiculous to blame his death entirely on Monroe considering that Gable was a heavy smoker and drinker for most of his life. Plus he was 60 yrs old and insisted on doing many of his own stunts in the movie which consisted of being dragged by a horse at one point. Apparently he did this because he got bored on the set waiting around for Marilyn all the time.
shareWell the movie portrays Marilyn as not coming to set on time and not being prepared because that is exactly what she did. Its been well documented that Marilyn was late most of the time, in fact it was a running joke in Hollywood. In almost all of the movies that she did they were complaints that she held up production by being hours late, not showing up to the sets at all, or forgetting/messing up her lines. Part of this is because she suffered from severe camera fright, but the drugs, her mental state, a lack of focus, and confidence in herself all played a part.
Billy Wilder, the director of 'Some Like it Hot' said that it took her 60 something takes just to say the simple line 'it's me Sugar' right. For other people on the set that has got to be very very frustrating.
The amazing thing is though when you watch the finished products you would never guess all the trouble that went on behind the scenes. Goes to show that Marilyn was genuinely talented its just a shame all that other stuff got in the way.
There are at least hundreds of people who worked with Marilyn over the years, who can agree that Marilyn was chronically late, unprepared, and a pain in the butt to work with.
Her NY roommate Shelley Winters says in her book, that there was no nastiness in Marilyn, no meanness. She was easy to forgive.
Marilyn has bee known for her troubles with drugs and other personal problems that she faced in her life.
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