In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark, just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of ‘The Prince and the Showgirl’, the film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe, who was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller.
Nearly 40 years on, his diary account ‘The Prince, the Showgirl and Me’ was published, but one week was missing and this was published some years later as ‘My Week with Marilyn’ – this is the story of that week. When Arthur Miller leaves England, the coast is clear for Colin to introduce Marilyn to some of the pleasures of British life; an idyllic week in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away from her retinue of Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of work.
Emma will play Lucy, a wardrobe assistant for the movie with whom Clark has a relationship with. According to the diary, she "kissed like an angel"The filming started on October 4th and should en around November 21st.
Cast:
Marilyn Monroe: Michelle Williams
Colin Clark: Eddie Redmayne
Sir Laurence Olivier: Kenneth Branagh
Dame Sybil Thorndike: Judi Dench
Vivien Leigh: Julia Ormond
Arthur Miller: Dougray Scott
Paula Strasberg: Zoe Wanamaker
Lucy: Emma Watson
Toby Jones
Philip Jackson
Geraldine Somerville
Derek Jacobi
Simon Russell Beale
Dominic Cooper
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