Love, Marilyn

Love, Marilyn is a 2012 American documentary film about Marilyn Monroes writings produced by Stanley F. Buchthal, Liz Garbus, Amy Hobby, and directed by Garbus. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2012 and is based on the 2010 nonfiction book Fragments Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters, edited by Stanley F. Buchthal and Bernard Comment. The production firms that produced the film included the Diamond Girl production company, Sols Luncheonette Production and the Frenchbased StudioCanal production company, whose parent company Canal Group owns the thirdlargest film library in the world.

50 years after her death, two boxes of Marilyn Monroes writingsdiaries, poems and letterswere discovered in the home of Lee Strasberg, her acting coach. The film features dramatic readings of Marilyn Monroes writings by actors, film critics, journalists and authors and archival footage of Hollywood insiders who knew her or worked with her in various films or acting school.Entertainment Weekly, in its The Must List The TopThings We Love This Week section, picked Love, Marilyn as one of its selections the week of June 28, 2013, Volume 1265. The EW staff wrote, The iconic star takes center stage in a revelatory HBO documentary that combines old footage and a slew of interviews with such actors as Viola Davis and Glenn Close. Catch it now on VOD or with the HBO Go app. ........

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