Connie Stevens and Marilyn Monroe are purely coincidental.
Truly awful even for a 70s TV movie.
Thinly disguised bio of Marilyn Monroe.
I first saw this when it aired and recently discovered the uncut European version on YouTube. I remember all the hype and the feature in TV Guide.
Sorry, Hollywood. Just like the remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice, the gratuitous nudity added to get butts in seats doesn't improve your product. No one missed anything.
Set in 1957, this movie is loaded with usual Hollywood period laziness, as if the producers think the audience is too stupid to notice all the anachronisms in hair, make-up, clothing, cars, and fashion that are straight out of 1974.
As bad as Harlow. As thin and poorly written. Either version, Baker's or Lynley's.
Check out the mirror scene toward the end. The same thing was done in Harlow as well. Is it the obligatory scene in every Hollywood star on the way down script?.
Tacky, cheap, lurid clap-trap.
Connie Stevens is all in and over the top but is given no direction to dial it back and by the middle of the movie sounds like a yapping lapdog rather than a troubled soul crying out for help. Still, I can't hate on Connie Stevens. This was the director's call and the director muffed it.
Her Kelly Williams comes off as a tedious shrew. Full of fire and music and perky energy, but a shrew nonetheless.
Shelley Winters is so bad she stumbles over her lines. Perhaps that was a stab at some Hedda Hopper or Louella Parsons type character development. Whatever it was, it looks like a lack of budget for retakes and flubs that were kept in for no good reason.
It is a terrible movie. But it does have one major thing going for it. As with Connie Stevens, every member in the cast is fully engaged, and sincere, and says their lines with the most earnest professionalism. Well, minus Shelly Winters who seems to have just wandered on to the set for the paycheck.
It's funny, Winters was made for that role and could really have chewed the scenery with it. The opportunity was right there.
For the rest, they actually believe the garbage that was written for them to say and treat it as if it was the finest dialog ever written.
That makes it fun, as the story, not Monroe's life, but the screenplay is composed of such cliches the performer's sincerity makes it enjoyable enough.
The gratuitous nude scene toward the end? An excuse to show some mams. No one takes off their clothes, puts on earrings and high heels and climbs into bed yaknowwhatI'msayin?
Maybe it was the producer's attempt at softening the brittle main character a bit.
More likely a play to get publicity by flashing some flesh.
Garbage. Not sure it's even fun garbage, but it's a 70s curio that's rarely seen and I do wish there had been a better print than the one I saw.
Connie Stevens is nice to look at. Respectable work by the cast except for the previously mentioned Winters.
Cynical telling of the Monroe Legend. A drive in movie that somehow made it to the small screen.
Definitely, this is a terrible movie. But here I am writing a review about it, so it can't have been such a waste of time.
Truly awful even for a 70s TV movie.
Thinly disguised bio of Marilyn Monroe.
I first saw this when it aired and recently discovered the uncut European version on YouTube. I remember all the hype and the feature in TV Guide.
Sorry, Hollywood. Just like the remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice, the gratuitous nudity added to get butts in seats doesn't improve your product. No one missed anything.
Set in 1957, this movie is loaded with usual Hollywood period laziness, as if the producers think the audience is too stupid to notice all the anachronisms in hair, make-up, clothing, cars, and fashion that are straight out of 1974.
As bad as Harlow. As thin and poorly written. Either version, Baker's or Lynley's.
Check out the mirror scene toward the end. The same thing was done in Harlow as well. Is it the obligatory scene in every Hollywood star on the way down script?.
Tacky, cheap, lurid clap-trap.
Connie Stevens is all in and over the top but is given no direction to dial it back and by the middle of the movie sounds like a yapping lapdog rather than a troubled soul crying out for help. Still, I can't hate on Connie Stevens. This was the director's call and the director muffed it.
Her Kelly Williams comes off as a tedious shrew. Full of fire and music and perky energy, but a shrew nonetheless.
Shelley Winters is so bad she stumbles over her lines. Perhaps that was a stab at some Hedda Hopper or Louella Parsons type character development. Whatever it was, it looks like a lack of budget for retakes and flubs that were kept in for no good reason.
It is a terrible movie. But it does have one major thing going for it. As with Connie Stevens, every member in the cast is fully engaged, and sincere, and says their lines with the most earnest professionalism. Well, minus Shelly Winters who seems to have just wandered on to the set for the paycheck.
It's funny, Winters was made for that role and could really have chewed the scenery with it. The opportunity was right there.
For the rest, they actually believe the garbage that was written for them to say and treat it as if it was the finest dialog ever written.
That makes it fun, as the story, not Monroe's life, but the screenplay is composed of such cliches the performer's sincerity makes it enjoyable enough.
The gratuitous nude scene toward the end? An excuse to show some mams. No one takes off their clothes, puts on earrings and high heels and climbs into bed yaknowwhatI'msayin?
Maybe it was the producer's attempt at softening the brittle main character a bit.
More likely a play to get publicity by flashing some flesh.
Garbage. Not sure it's even fun garbage, but it's a 70s curio that's rarely seen and I do wish there had been a better print than the one I saw.
Connie Stevens is nice to look at. Respectable work by the cast except for the previously mentioned Winters.
Cynical telling of the Monroe Legend. A drive in movie that somehow made it to the small screen.
Definitely, this is a terrible movie. But here I am writing a review about it, so it can't have been such a waste of time.