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    My Week with Marilyn
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    My Week with Marilyn

    Written by Colin Clark

    Narrated by Simon Prebble

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    In 1956 twenty-three-year-old Colin Clark began work as a lowly assistant on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl, the film that united Sir Laurence Olivier with Marilyn Monroe. The blonde bombshell and the legendary actor were ill suited from the start. Monroe, on honeymoon with her new husband, the celebrated playwright Arthur Miller, was insecure, often late, and heavily medicated on pills. Olivier, obsessively punctual, had no patience for Monroe and the production became chaotic. Clark was perceptive in his assessment of what seemed to be going wrong in Monroe's life: too many hangers-on, intense insecurity, and too many pills. Before long, Monroe and Clark spent an innocent week together in the English countryside and Clark became her confidant and ally. This special theatrical edition also includes The Prince, The Showgirl and Me, Colin Clark's diary during the film's production.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateOct 4, 2011
    ISBN9781611203004
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    My Week with Marilyn
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    Colin Clark

    Colin Clark (1932-2002) was a British writer and filmmaker. He was the younger brother of the famous diarist Alan Clark and younger son of Sir Kenneth ('Lord Clark of Civilization'), and was educated at Eton and Oxford. After The Prince and the Showgirl, he became a personal assistant to Laurence Olivier before moving to Granada Television. Subsequently he produced and directed over 100 arts documentary films in America and Britain. His autobiography Younger Brother, Younger Son was published in 1997.

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    • 2/5
      Mr. Clark was on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl as personal assistant to Lawrence Olivier. This role was quickly changed to personal friend of Marilyn Munroe. As her insecurities, addictions and new marriage to Arthur Miller became overwhelming Marilyn wanted an escape from her life and Mr. Colin offered just that … some time touring and being “british”.

      Although it is an interesting, albeit short, glimpse into Marilyn and the behind the scenes of the film I found the book a little disjointed.