Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 23, 2015. If you are looking for a biography of Marilyn Monroe this is not it. I just read Colin Clark’s book, and I’m skeptical. In the actual writing of the MY WEEK section Clark does a things that support and other things that cast doubt on the validity of his account. However, a young third assistant director (showbiz slang for "gofer") was around to escort Miss Monroe, fall in love with her, and conveniently overhear just about every confession made by the principals who felt they were being "devoured" by her (Monroe's new husband, Arthur Miller), worried that they were "dead behind these eyes" (Olivier) or were just looking for someone who would love her "like a regular girl" (guess who). Please try again. How he ended up sharing her bed is a tale too rich to summarise! We've sent you an email with instructions to create a new password. In MY WEEK Clark never shuts up (a striking contrast to Clark as portrayed in the film). The information below will be used to optimize the content and make ads across the network more relevant to you. Marilyn takes over the movie, but she starts as a bit player in the drama of Colin Clark (a likable turn by Eddie Redmayne), a young Oxford graduate seeking to make his way in the world. Anyway, taking all this into account, I don’t believe Colin Clark’s story. epaper, Digital Access, Subscriber Rewards), please input your Print Newspaper subscription phone number and postal code. Kenneth Branagh is very funny as an actor who KNOWS he's giving a bad performance. {* currentPassword *}, Created {| existing_createdDate |} at {| existing_siteName |}, {| connect_button |} In the grand scheme, it doesn’t matter. Thank you for verifiying your email address. Of course, this assumes that Colin liked girls. In 1956, fresh from Oxford, the 23-year-old Colin Clark (brother of maverick Tory MP and diarist Alan) worked as a humble ‘gofer’ on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl, the film that disastrously united Laurence Olivier with Marilyn Monroe. My Week with Marilyn by Colin Clark is available now. You'll see all the posts for that time period. Sorry, we could not verify that email address. The result is a combination of romantic comedy, backstage gossip and, at the centre, a wonderfully detailed performance by Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe. {| create_button |}, {* #changePasswordFormNoAuth *} Michelle Williams delivers the essence of Marilyn Monroe in this romantic reminiscence of the time the actress made The Prince and the Showgirl with Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) in 1956. Breathy, vulnerable, self-absorbed, lost, manipulative, childish and irresistible, she is a child who is being crushed by someone named "Marilyn Monroe.". placement: 'Interstitial Gallery Thumbnails 5', {* #signInForm *} She finds sympathy among some members of the troupe -- Dame Sybil Thorndike (the commanding Judi Dench) is grace itself -- but Olivier is soon at his wit's end. Colin Clark died in 2002. In My Week With Marilyn, he develops a crush on a pretty wardrobe girl (Emma Watson), but soon abandons her for the glittery charms of Marilyn, who seizes upon him when Miller (Dougray Scott, hammering on the one note of "tortured writer") flees to New York City so he can write. She is endlessly fascinating, of course, there's so much we don't know about her, & paradoxically she's more famous now than she was when she died. Just like Princess Diana & Elvis, she also died too soon when there was so much more to give. Privacy Statement | Find all the books, read about the author and more. In the book, unlike the movie, she even is willing to have sex with him, but he declines. 1-Click ordering is not available for this item. This is common in true memoirs. There's not a lot left to say about Marilyn, of course, but this first-hand, day by day account of her notorious encounter with Olivier, and how it all went wrong, is new, funny and fascinating. container: 'taboola-interstitial-gallery-thumbnails-5', Couldn’t he have simply added a few comments and slanted his perceptions in the diary to make it more in harmony with the fabricated story in MY WEEK WITH MARILYN? I wanted to watch it because I have a growing crush on Eddie Redmayne. His account of the day to day problems and dramas of making a film when one star was superior and knew it and the other was brilliant bit didn't believe it, make very interesting reading. container: 'taboola-interstitial-gallery-thumbnails-8', Please enter your email below, and we'll send you a new code to reset your password. But the chapter in the book where Marilyn sneaks out on an escapade with the author and pours out her heart to him is beyond ridiculous. That's true, whether the object of one's affections is the girl next door or Marilyn Monroe. In the account of the missing week, he and Marilyn have this wonderful interlude where she is kissing him and hanging out and sneaking off to spend time with him. I think he lied, though I can’t say I’m sorry he did. Browse previous blog posts by month and year of entry. First love, someone says in the winning (if unlikely) reminiscence My Week With Marilyn, is a sweet despair. placement: 'Interstitial Gallery Thumbnails 8', Fast, FREE delivery, video streaming, music, and much more. I really enjoyed reading this book. She doesn't look entirely like Marilyn Monroe, but she is so persuasive that you end up, as so many did, falling in love with the image. In the book, Colin has a sexual interlude with a wardrobe girl — but he also has a intimate encounter with a man. Already have an account? One of the things that I liked so much about the film — and that made me initially believe in its veracity — is that MM and Colin never have sex and that it seems she never intends to have sex with him. I’m not going to lie to you; I read My Week with Marilyn purely because I wanted to watch the film. They go skinny dipping, sleep in the same bed and really become close. It will turn out to be a clash of cultures: the Hollywood sex goddess and the Shakespearean stage icon never meshed, and they made a mediocre movie in the end. Furthermore the tone of the book was snobby and sneering - Colin finds it amusing to treat women in the most unkind way - he delights in telling us how unintelligent the 'little wardrobe girl' is. window._taboola = window._taboola || []; Yes, I am a slave to the mentality of watching a pretty actor perform on screen and since I have a “books before I looks” rule, I purchased the novel.
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