Tag: Marilyn Monroe

Blu-ray Review: Some Like It Hot (Criterion Collection)

[amazon_link asins=’B07GGRJWRW’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’03294b9b-fa6c-11e8-bead-132855c77366′]Marilyn Monroe (Bus Stop) had a keen understanding of how to use her face, body and voice to make her sex appeal permeate through the screen. In Billy Wilder’s 1959 comedy Some Like It Hot,…

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Love Happy (DVD)

While certainly not one of the Marx Brothers best films, Love Happy is still a significant moment in their career. It ended up being the last Marx Brothers film (apparently Chico persuaded his brothers to do the film so he…

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Blu-ray Review: Niagara

Marilyn Monroe’s first starring role, Niagara is unlike the films she would become known for. Cast as a femme fatale, Monroe plays Rose Loomis, the new wife of older, troubled veteran George Loomis (Joseph Cotten). The couple, on their honeymoon…

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Blu-ray Review: Bus Stop

Taken from the stage play by William Inge, Bus Stop tells the story of Beauregard “Bo” Decker (Don Murray) a back-country cowboy from Montana leaving his ranch for the first time to participate in a phoenix rodeo. Portrayed as a…

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Some Like It Hot

Blu-ray Review: Some Like It Hot

Marilyn Monroe had a keen understanding of how to use her face, body and voice to make her sex appeal permeate through the screen. In Billy Wilder’s 1959 comedy Some Like It Hot, Monroe was at the height of her…

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Blu-ray Review: The Misfits

Written by the playwright Arthur Miller for his wife Marilyn Monroe—whom he would divorce before the film was released, The Misfits has perhaps become more famous for what went on behind the scenes than what happened on it.  Monroe delivers…

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Blu-ray Review: All About Eve

20th Century Fox | 1950 | 138 mins. | NR If Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard offers a brilliant glimpse of washed up Hollywood, All About Eve is the best example of a stars struggle to stay at the top of…

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