About this title

Storyline

A fictional biography of Marilyn Monroe mixed with series of real events in her life: childhood years, first marriage to James Dougherty, meeting with the photographer Otto Ose, career with XX Century Fox, relationship with her mother, foster parents, life wasters Charles Chaplin Jr. (Cass) and Edward G. Robinson Jr. (Eddie G), baseball player Joe DiMaggio, playwright Arthur Miller and many other people.

Country: United States

Type: scripted

Status: Ended

Language: English

Release Date: May 13, 2001

Also Known As: Marilyn Monroe, BlondynkaA szexbomba, Plavuša, Блондинка, Marilyn, Блондинката, Blonda Marilyn, Blonde, Blond, 梦露传 |  See more »

Genres

Plot Keywords

biography
historical figure
hollywood
woman director
revisionist-history
absent-father
marilyn-monroe-character
baseball-player
playwright
marriage
photographer
watching-a-movie
merchant-marine
orphan
nurse
reference-to-charlie-chaplin
wedding-cake
police
blonde
miscarriage
fire
marijuana
happy-birthday-to-you
doll
beach
stuffed-tiger
prayer
student
song
telephone
wedding-night
theft
mirror
korean-war
photograph
tears
telephone-call
breaking-a-window
happy-birthday
bathtub
underwear
pedophile
bar
divorce
orphanage
arson
limousine
drinking
reference-to-laurence-olivier
reference-to-louis-calhern
paranoia
scrubbing-a-floor
calendar
crying
baby
wedding-dress
suicide
homosexual
christmas
kiss
reference-to-clark-gable
falling-down-stairs
foreman
money
gemini
slapped-in-the-face
poem
classroom
champagne
bath
cigarette-holder
cat
taxi
swimsuit
ferris-wheel
motel
factory-worker
thief
food
nude-calendar
reading
psychiatric-hospital
cafe
depression
love
taxidermy
montage
biting-a-hand
loneliness
singer
razor-blade
girl
camera
drunkenness
abortion
nightmare
eating
reference-to-jane-russell
secretary
piano-lesson
gay
wedding
seagull
lockheed
fruit-basket
manhandling
reference-to-god
straitjacket
birth-certificate
aircraft-factory
child-abuse
benzedrine
wine
gift
dream-sequence
birthday-cake
model
adoption
guilt
wedding-reception
audience
rape
bathroom
teacher
birthday
book
pornography
drink
reference-to-john-huston
foster-home
candle
threesome
reference-to-anton-chekhov
policeman
pregnancy
fire-engine
restaurant
poet
vomiting
reference-to-lee-strasberg
tv-mini-series
eyelashes
makeup-artist
theatrical-agent
film-history
piano-teacher
foster-mother
lesbian-subtext
teenage-bride
stars-and-stripes-the-publication
high-school
teacher-student-relationship
marriage-proposal
maine
venice-beach-california
acting-teacher
acting-class
reference-to-dostoyevsky
love-triangle
actor
theater-audience
movie-premiere
film-camera
hospital
world-war-two
wrist-slitting
suicide-attempt
death-of-grandmother
death
pills
talking-to-the-camera
cigarette-smoking
singing
van-nuys-california
teenage-girl
flashback
voice-over-narration
drug-use
nude-photograph
photo-shoot
husband-wife-relationship
poetry
father-daughter-relationship
mental-illness
flash-camera
self-destructiveness
mother-daughter-relationship
grandmother-granddaughter-relationship
movie-studio
price-of-fame
mental-breakdown
drugs
film-director
show-business
sex-symbol
rise-and-fall
piano
movie-theater
foster-parent
movie-star
celebrity
1930s
1950s
actress
hollywood-california
1940s
1960s
based-on-book

Company Credits

Production Co: Robert Greenwald Productions, Fireworks Entertainment

Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

2001 | 2 Episodes

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Awards

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OFTA Television Award 2001

Nominee

OFTA Television Award

Best Actress in a Motion Picture or Miniseries

Excellence in Production Design Award 2002

Nominee

Excellence in Production Design Award

Television Movie or Mini-Series

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