Marilyn Monroe - The Final Days
by Patty Ivins Specht
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Actor: Gene Allen, George Barris, James Coburn, Lauren Bacall, Steve AllenDirector: Patty Ivins Specht
Brand: Image Entertainment
Producer: Patty Ivins Specht
Producer: Erika Schroeder
Producer: Jason Fine
Producer: Kevin Burns
Producer: Michael D. Stevens
Producer: Scott Hartford
Writer: Monica Bider
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-08-02
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
DVD Reviews of Marilyn Monroe - The Final Days
DVD Review: Interesting for casual fans, but the movie stinks
Summary: 4 Stars
I'm no expert on Monroe, so this tied together most of the relevant details surrounding her ill-starred final days. It's clear that her suicide may not have been intentional. The resurrected footage of her final film appears very corny by today's standards. It's hard to believe the public bought this awful stuff not that long ago. Neither Monroe, nor her cos-star, Dean Martin, could ever get away with acting this lame today. But they must be judged by the standards of their day, I guess. You can imagine the parallels with today's starlets like Lindsey Lohan, perhaps.DVD Review: One last hurrah for Monroe
Summary: 5 Stars
This DVD is wonderful! It's great to see the last work of Marilyn Monroe, in the edited and remastered film from her uncompleted movie "Something's Got to Give". It is a must have for any MM fan.DVD Review: Luminous out-takes and an absolutely magnetic Monroe
Summary: 5 Stars
This product is pieced together from raw/restored footage, out-takes and the ending partial film is sprite, interesting and Monroe's powerful luminous presence is riveting and almost ethereal.
The commentary unfortunately tends to favor the negative side of the studio issues playing out. They fail to mention or down play that Monroe was the #1 female box office star of the past decade, that her films were keeping 20th Century Fox above water for the past several years and they were paying her approx. 200K due to a loop hole in her early contract. Yet Cleopatra was literally bankrupting Fox after almost 2 years in production and Taylor was receiving 1M for her film. This was the last film under Monroe's old contract, and it was a flimsy B film that she didn't want to do. Fox expected Monroe to complete & release the hit quickly, thus it would help finance the ballooning Cleopatra and the sinking Fox. Monroe resented these facts, the film and didn't want to make it. So she was sick & tardy, they fired her, she made history again at Madison Square Garden, her legal team countered, Dean Martin quit (he refused to work w/ anyone but Monroe as his contract stated), Fox quickly rehired her with a large raise..yes she was dumb like a "Fox".
It's of note to watch her out-takes when she sees her children for the first time in 5 years, her eyes reveal a range as large as the Alps and take you on a journey in mere seconds, many shades of pathos, yearning and love. It's evident her craft had made another substantial jump in development. And Monroe's flesh impact owns the screen like none other - even when someone else is talking your still watching her.
In film class at Yale they devoted a whole class to her, including showing a series of clips with a multitude of famous dignitaries with her: Presidents, Queens, Kings, actors, opera stars, famous scholars and scientist, etc. and at the end the professor asked us to name any of the 17 dignitaries with Monroe, we could name only 4. Such is the power of her flesh impact. In forty some years since her death it's safe to say they'll be no one at this level of screen presence, close but sans that flesh impact that only Monroe delivered soulfully.
DVD Review: MARILYN MONROE-----THE FINAL DAYS
Summary: 5 Stars
I FOUND THIS DVD TO BE ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING AND A MUST FOR ALL THE MARILYN MONROE FANS AS IT GIVES YOU MORE OF AN INSIGHT TO THIS VERY TRAGIC ENDING OF A WOMAN WHO HAD THE POWER TO GAIN ANYTHING IN HER LIFE SHE WANTED ---EXCEPTING ONE THING THAT SHE NEEDED, AND THAT WAS PEACE OF MIND......I HAVE SEEN MANY DOCUMENTARIES ON MARILYN BUT THIS ONE WAS THE MOST COMPASSIONATE AND MOST UNDERSTANDING OF ALL......SOPHIEDVD Review: Marilyn At Her Very Best
Summary: 5 Stars
Outstanding DVD. A HUGE Marilyn fan I own every movie in which she appeared from the walk on in "Love Happy" to her final film "The Misfits" and always felt cheated there was no partical release of "Something's Got To Give". I purchased every 8x10 glossy from the production set I could find to fill the void. The wait is now over. Here in this DVD is a look into the production, interviews with the cast, writer and director, fantastic stills and costume takes. The narration is insightful and not judgemental. Best of all it includes a pieced together look from what available footage they had at what "Something's Got To Give" would have looked like had it ever made it to the screen. A real treat. This is a must have for any Monroe fan. She was over weight in her last two films and lost weight for this film and looked better than she had in years. A true must see. Marilyn at her very best!
Description of Marilyn Monroe - The Final Days
Over 40 years after Marilyn Monroe's death halted production on 20th Century Fox's light comedy Something's Got To Give, this celebration of the ultimate screen goddess offers viewers the world premiere of the edited reconstruction of her final film.In The Final Days, producer-director Patty Ivins chronicles Marilyn Monroe's final, aborted feature film, Something's Got to Give, which was ultimately shut down after the star was dismissed from the production. Beyond Monroe's fragile emotional and physical health, this well-crafted profile examines the financial crisis facing her studio as well as the mounting frustration of meticulous director George Cukor and his cast, including costar Dean Martin, as Monroe's absences drove the shoot over budget. The 2001 documentary, which was previously available only as part of The Diamond Collection, concludes with a 40-minute reconstruction of footage completed for the feature, which would subsequently be reshot as a vehicle for Doris Day and James Garner, Move Over, Darling. --Sam Sutherland
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