In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark worked as a lowly assistant on the set of "The...
moreIn the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark worked as a lowly assistant on the set of "The Prince and the Showgirl", the film that united Sir Laurence Olivier with Marilyn Monroe, who, whilst shooting, was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller. Nearly 40 years on, his diary account was published, save one week. This is the story of that week: an idyll in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away from her retinue of Hollywood and the pressures of working. When Arthur Miller makes a brief trip to Paris, the coast is clear for Colin to introduce her to some of the pleasures of British life. Slowly Marilyn begins to shake off the dark fog of insecurity and fear always hovering around her. As she relaxes she offers Colin fleeting insights into her own background - one of family madness, single-minded ambition and uninhibited sexuality.
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