Marilyn Monroe

Directed by Andrew Dominik and based on Joyce Carol Oates' novel of the same name, Blonde arrives on the streaming service on Sept. 28 (and not Sept. 23, as the ...

“Andrew’s ambitions were very clear from the start — to present a version of Marilyn Monroe’s life through her lens,” de Armas added. Fame is what made Marilyn the most visible person in the world, but it also made Norma the most invisible.” Throughout the trailer, scenes from Monroe’s life flash on the screen, but behind the iconic moments from film history, Monroe struggled with her identity and the pressures of fame.

The teaser begins with a look at Marilyn's global fame, with crowds chanting her name – but things quickly fall apart for her. 'I know you're supposed to get ...

She continued: ‘The first question was always, “What was Norma Jeane feeling here?” We wanted to tell the human side of her story. Director Andrew isn’t afraid of offending audiences, previously telling Vulture: ‘We’re in a time now, I think, where people are really uncertain about where any lines are. We’d pore over every detail in the photo and debate what was happening in it.’ Fame is what made Marilyn the most visible person in the world, but it also made Norma the most invisible.’ Every scene is inspired by an existing photograph. Ana De Armas’ Marilyn Monroe is seen battling her demons in the haunting new trailer for Netflix’s Blonde.

In the Blonde trailer, Ana de Armas can be seen recreating the iconic white dress subway moment in The Seven Year Itch and singing Diamonds Are A Girl's ...

Marilyn Monroe only exists on the screen." The UK equivalent is an 18 certificate. In the Blonde trailer, Ana de Armas can be seen recreating the iconic white dress subway moment in The Seven Year Itch and singing Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

Cuban actress Ana de Armas adeptly transforms into the blonde bombshell who starred in such movies as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Niagara and The Seven Year ...

The star is in an office setting with a script in her hand as she appears very vulnerable but not certain how to behave I want to go and see the NC-17 version of the Marilyn Monroe story.' 'Because we know that her life was on the edge, clearly, from the way it ended. 'Andrew’s ambitions were very clear from the start — to present a version of Marilyn Monroe’s life through her lens. Over the clip, Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend is sung in a slow, moody voice. We're in a time now, I think, where people are really uncertain about where any lines are,' he said. The scene feels like it is a casting couch situation for a nervous Monroe. There are also quick flashes of her in a white suit as she looks very apprehensive. There are also quick flashes of her in a white suit as she looks very apprehensive. She seems confused by the question then said she was 'discovered.' The trailer is here! Then she walks out to a crowd cheering for her.

The new trailer for Blonde, Andrew Dominik's upcoming Netflix movie starring Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe, has dropped online. The footage, which you can ...

"I think if I'm given the choice, I'd rather go and see the NC-17 version of the Marilyn Monroe story," Dominik told Vulture (opens in new tab). "Because we know that her life was on the edge, clearly, from the way it ended. The new trailer comes after pictures featuring de Armas looking uncannily like Monroe were unveiled. We also see de Armas portraying Monroe in more of her films, including Some Like It Hot and Niagara.

Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were married for less than a year before divorcing, but the two remained friends until her untimely death.

At the time, officials ruled her death as a probable suicide. At the time, the couple could not have a church ceremony due to the fact that they had both been previously married and divorced. DiMaggio, who happened to be on set, was reportedly furious, causing the two to fight in public. On Aug. 5, 1962, Monroe died from an overdose of barbiturates at her Los Angeles home. The two were only married for nine months. Since it was an elopement, Monroe did not wear a traditional wedding gown.

The Hear'Say singer, 39, looked incredible in a pink and white patterned dress that showed off her long legs. The skirt billowed up in the wind, ...

She joined Emmerdale in 2010 but only appeared on the series for a year. 'Since turning to a plant-based diet, daily meditation and a more mindful approach to life, I feel so full of energy. 'I gave up alcohol for a year after I had developed an unhealthy relationship with it. 'We must have been the fittest group about, as we were always working out for shows and tours. Suzanne added: 'I was in denial for a long time. We were the guinea pigs.' Want to shop the dress? It instantly caught our eye thanks to the abstract print and pink shade. Suzanne explained that being in a soap left her little time to keep on top of her fitness regime, while being in pop group Hear'Say, allowed her the time to keep healthy. Click the link! We love the boho style silhouette and rope tie waist, too. Speaking to The Sun's Fabulous magazine, Suzanne said her brain was 'unable to process the trauma' of the split and she didn't her mental health was suffering.

Blonde, starring Ana de Armas, is based on the bestselling novel by Joyce Carol Oates and is a fictionalised narrative of Marilyn's life.

"Because we know that her life was on the edge, clearly, from the way it ended. Do you want to see the warts-and-all version or do you want to see that sanitized version?" "There's something in it to offend everyone." Ana praised fellow cast and crew members in the caption, writing: "It was such a gift to get to work with actors like @adrienbrody and @bobby_cannavale on this beautiful project. "Can’t wait for everyone to see the wonderful work they do in this film. The film is based on the bestselling novel by Joyce Carol Oates and is a fictionalised narrative of Marilyn's life, from her relationship with her father and ending with her death.

From the 195's to the 1960s, discover Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio's style during their courthouse wedding and press tour honeymoon.

During their marriage, Monroe and DiMaggio were often seen together in similarly sharp outfits. In February 1954, after their wedding and immediate 10-day honeymoon period, Monroe and DiMaggio continued their romance in Tokyo, which was spent on a press tour, including a moment to visit local sights like a fishing village, where the “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” star wore a sleeveless color-blocked belted dress with a striped scarf in her hair. Upon leaving San Francisco City Hall in January 1954, immediately following her marriage to DiMaggio, Monroe wore a black button-up jacket topped with a white fur collar and a bejeweled bow.

Ana de Armas looks exactly like Marilyn Monroe in Blonde, as the actress has been shown in the role for the new trailer.

After graduating from the National Theatre School of Havana, she appeared in film and television in Cuba and Spain before coming to Los Angeles in 2014 and learning to speak English in a short time. Director Dominik says the film itself does not have much dialogue, but instead tells her story through an “avalanche of images and events,” according to People. We wanted to tell the human side of her story.

Ana de Armas is taking on the iconic role of Marilyn Monroe in Netflix's Blonde film and the resemblance is uncanny. See pictures of the actress in ...

She's one of many celebrities who have taken on the role of Monroe, and she threw herself into the job. See pictures of the actress in character side-by-side with the real-life blonde bombshell Ana de Armas Recreating Marilyn Monroe in Niagara

Andrew Dominik's new film arrives in September. Empire has the trailer.

It’s made with good intentions. It’s made with love. Where most biopics tend to be straight-up life-story trawls, hitting all the major beats from birth to death, sometimes they take a different approach – scrambling chronology, twiddling with timelines, focusing on a few select days, or finding other unexpected ways to dig beneath the surface.

Blonde, the upcoming Marilyn Monroe movie, has been given an NC-17 rating ahead of its release this September.

You can also contact the Department of Defense Safe Helpline for Sexual Assault on 1 (877) 955-5247. “I think if I’m given the choice, I’d rather go and see the NC-17 version of the Marilyn Monroe story. Written by Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. You can also contact Victim support on 08 08 16 89 111 He continued: ”It’s an NC-17 movie about Marilyn Monroe, it’s kind of what you want, right? Because we know that her life was on the edge, clearly, from the way it ended.

A few days from now, August 4, will mark the 60th death anniversary of one of the biggest stars of Hollywood. She was found dead of a drug overdose in her ...

In spite of all her success, she was a victim of a marketplace built and run by men. By the time she was shooting for her last film The Misfits (1961) she was barely in a condition to work. Every intimate moment, every careless word was recorded; at some point the Mafia was involved, and accusations of her being a communist (a black mark in Cold War-era America) were bandied about. She was married at 16 to James Dougherty and working in a factory, when a photographer turned her into a pin-up girl. It is typical of showbiz make-believe, that from her name (Norma Jean Mortenson) to her dazzling blonde hair, there was a lot that was fake about the woman. It was her statue, Forever Marilyn, in the classic skirt-billowing pose (From The Seven Year Itch, 1955) that was sculpted by John Seward Johnson in 2011 and put up in Palm Springs a year later.

Shared yesterday (July 28), the two-minute clip offers a glimpse into the film's depiction of old Hollywood glamour, complete with paparazzi-flooded red carpet ...

The full-length trailer follows last month’s 30-second teaser, and comes ahead of the film’s Netflix premiere on September 23. Soundtracked by a slowed version of Monroe’s 1953 rendition of ‘Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend’, the trailer offers a sombre behind-the-scenes look at the icon herself. Alongside de Armas, the cast includes actors Bobby Cannavale, Adrien Brody and Sara Paxton, among others.

Six decades on, the spectacle of Marilyn Monroe's tumultuous life and death continues to hold us in its grip. With a major new biopic on the way, ...

Dominik has said the film will be “critical of American sacred cows”, including Kennedy, and that “there’s something in it to offend everyone”. It is evident that the film will push the limits. In the novel, death comes “hurtling toward her” in the form of a man “without passion and without pity”, an assassin. The novel, Oates wrote in a preface, was a “radically distilled ‘life’ of Marilyn Monroe”. By radically distilled, she explained, she meant that she had been highly selective, used real-life facts and characters – she credited my biography as being one of her main sources – but freely imagined much else. Will the coming film be an indulgent wallow in her sex life and in conspiratorial fantasising about her death, or deliver something worthwhile? Early in the book, Norma Jeane is raped by a Hollywood studio mogul who is allotted the name “Mr Z”. The rape scene is graphically written, sparing no detail. Later, when she finds fame, she marries first “the Ex-Athlete” and then “the Playwright” – transparent references to Monroe’s husbands Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller. Why do I call Oates’ “fictionalised” tale of dalliance with the Kennedys “historical libel”? Credible information does suggest that Kennedy dallied with Monroe. His brother Robert, research indicates, also had some sort of covert connection to her. Since its publication, the appetite for all things Monroe – in particular the seamier side of her legacy – has only grown more voracious. Kim Kardashian, whose stunt it was to wear the Monroe dress at the Met, responded to criticism for having worn a deceased woman’s clothing by insisting, bizarrely, that she had “so much respect” for her. She was a founder member of the Hollywood branch of Sane, the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. In May, a portrait of a woman sold at auction in New York for $195m (£157m): a record for an artwork by an American artist and by any artist in the 20th century. Yet 60 years after she died, Monroe’s vivid presence in the world’s culture – only Diana, Princess of Wales rivals her hold over the public imagination – does not allow for nuance.

Netflix has shared the official trailer for 'Blonde', an upcoming biopic starring Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe – watch here.

The full-length trailer follows last month’s 30-second teaser, and comes ahead of the film’s Netflix premiere on September 23. Alongside de Armas, the cast includes actors Bobby Cannavale, Adrien Brody and Sara Paxton, among others. Soundtracked by a slowed version of Monroe’s 1953 rendition of ‘Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend’, the trailer offers a sombre behind-the-scenes look at the icon herself.

Netflix has released the official trailer for its upcoming Marilyn Monroe biopic 'Blonde', and in it we see Ana de Armas deliver a refreshing performance.

The film has recently been given an NC-17 rating in the US. When discussing this in an interview with Deadline in June, Brody, revealed that this is to be expected, as “there’ll be some controversy” around it when released. The clip is accompanied by a slowed version of Monroe’s 1953 hit ‘Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend’, as the trailer peeks behind the curtain at the star’s life, showing her struggling with the persona that she has created. Furthermore, the shots in monochrome are particularly convincing, as they take us back to the days when Monroe was at the height of her popularity.

The new Blonde trailer teases that Marilyn Monroe's life was a nightmare dipped in sequins.

I want to go see the NC-17 version of the Marilyn Monroe story.” As Monroe notes in the trailer’s closing line, “Marilyn Monroe only exists on the screen.” And yet, in the nearly 60 years since her death, audiences have been too intoxicated with that silver screen lie to ever let it go. Last year’s Spencer was by far the best biopic made to date about Princess Diana. The picture provides a scathing microcosm for her torments, if albeit in a highly fictionalized context. Eventually she demurs, “I guess I was discovered.” Yet Monroe’s answer is crosscut with a flashback that is clearly about to descend into the horrific: a young Norma Jeane Mortenson is approached in her memory by a far older and leering Hollywood producer after being cornered in his office. With that said, it remains an open question whether audiences want to see things from that perspective. We of course will have to reserve judgment on Blonde until after its premiere at the Venice Film Festival and it is screened for critics around the world.

New trailer for forthcoming 'Blonde' exposes Marilyn Monroe's greatest triumph and defeat: being Marilyn Monroe.

It’s a particular phenomenon that’s even been dubbed “The Marilyn Monroe Effect”. “I don’t know how to explain what she did because it was so very subtle, but she turned something on within herself that was almost like magic. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. In character, De Armas blinks away her tears, stares down her reflection, and transforms from her tortured self into Hollywood’s most famous “blonde bombshell”. In it, Monroe (played by Ana De Armas) sits in front of a dresser, crying. Forty-two seconds in, and we realise who “she” is.