Becoming Marilyn
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A documentary portrait of Norma Jeane's transformation into Marilyn Monroe, tracing the painful personal cost of mythmaking and stardom.
The story of how Norma Jeane Mortenson became Marilyn Monroe (1926-62), a lucid path of self-discovery, from anonymity to stardom: the painful birth of a myth.
Essence
Ensemble
Agnès Jaoui
Self - Narrator (voice)
Georgia Scalliet
Marilyn (voice)
Marilyn Monroe
Self (archive footage)
Jean Harlow
(archive footage)
Ingrid Bergman
(archive footage)
Anita Ekberg
(archive footage)
Rita Hayworth
(archive footage)
Jane Russell
(archive footage)
Mae West
(archive footage)
Betty Grable
(archive footage)
Sharon Stone
(archive footage)
Jean Hagen
(archive footage)
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