Filmography Of Marilyn Monroe
1- SCUDDA HOO! SCUDDA HAY!
20th Century-Fox, 1948. Produced by Walter Morosco; directed by E. Hugh Herbert. Cast: June Haver, Lon McCallister. A small part for Marilyn, rowing a boat.
2- DANGEROUS YEARS
20th Century-Fox, 1948. Produced by Sol M. Wurtzel; directed by Arthur Pierson. Cast: William Halop, Ann E. Todd, Jerome Cowan. Marilyn has a bit part as Eve, a waitress in a bar.
3- LADIES OF THE CHORUS
Columbia, 1948. Produced by Harry A. Romm; directed by Phil Karlson. Cast: Adele Jergens, Rand Brooks. Marilyn plays Peggy Martin, a burlesque queen.
4- LOVE HAPPY
United Artists Release of a Mary Pickford Presentation, 1950. Produced by Lester Cowan; directed by David Miller. Cast: Harpo, Chico, and Groucho Marx, Ilona Massey, Vera-Ellen. Marilyn is a sexy walk-on seeking the help of detective Grunion (Groucho Marx).
5- A TICKET TO TOMAHAWK
20th Century- Fox, 1950. Produced by Robert Bassler; directed by Richard Sale. Cast: Dan Dailey, Anne Baxter, Rory Calhoun, Walter Brennan. Marilyn Monroe plays a chorus girl named Clara.
6- THE ASPHALT JUNGLE
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1950. Produced by Arthur Hornblow, Jr.; directed by John Huston. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, Sam Jaffe, James Whitmore. Marilyn plays Angela Phinlay, the mistress (“niece”) of a lawyer involved in a jewel robbery.
7- ALL ABOUT EVE
20th Century-Fox, 1950. Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck; directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Cast: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill. Marilyn plays Miss Caswell, an aspiring actress.
8- THE FIREBALL
20th Century-Fox Release of a Thor Production, 1950. Produced by Bert Friedlob; directed by Tay Garnett. Cast: Mickey Rooney, Pat O’Brien, Beverly Tyler. Marilyn is Polly, one of many enticing young roller-skating groupies.
9- RIGHT CROSS
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1950. Produced by Armand Deutsch; directed by John Sturges. Cast: June Allyson, Dick Powell, Ricardo Montalban, Lionel Barrymore. Marilyn plays Dick Powell’s girlfriend.
10- HOMETOWN STORY
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1951. Produced, directed and wirtten by Arthur Pierson. Cast: Jeffrey Lynn, Donald Crisp, Marjorie Reynolds, Alan Hale Jr. Marilyn is Miss Martin, a secretary.
11- AS YOUNG AS YOU FEEL
20th Century-Fox, 1951. Produced by Lamar Trotti; directed by Harmon Jones. Cast: Monty Woolley, Thelma Ritter, David Wayne, Jean Peters. Marilyn plays a secretary again in this story: Harriet.
12- LOVE NEST
20th Century-Fox, 1951. Produced by Jules Buck; directed by Joseph Newman. Cast: June Haver, William Lundigan, Frank Fay, Jack Paar. Marilyn plays Roberta Stevens, an ex-WAC.
13- LET’S MAKE IT LEGAL
20th Century-Fox, 1951. Produced by Robert Bassler; directed by Richard Sale. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Macdonald Carey, Zachary Scott. Marilyn Monroe is Joyce, the gold-digging “other woman.”
14- CLASH BY NIGHT
RKO Radio Release of a Jerry Wald-Norman Krasna Production, 1952. Produced by Harriet Parsons; directed by Fritz Lang. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan. Marilyn plays a fish cannery worker named Peggy.
15- WE’RE NOT MARRIED
20th Century-Fox, 1952. Produced by Nunnally Johnson; directed by Edmund Goulding. Cast: Ginger Rogers, Fred Allen, Victor Moore, David Wayne, Eve Arden, Paul Douglas, Eddie Bracken, Mitzi Gaynor, Louis Calhern, Zsa Zsa Gabor. Marilyn is a beauty queen contestant named Annabel Norris.
16- DON’T BOTHER TO KNOCK
20th Century-Fox, 1952. Produced by Julian Blaustein; directed by Roy Baker. Cast: Richard Widmark, Anne Bancroft, Donna Corcoran. Marilyn plays Nell, a psychotic woman working as a baby-sitter.
17- MONKEY BUSINESS
20th Century-Fox, 1952. Produced by Sol C. Siegel; directed by Howard Hawks. Cast: Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn. Marilyn repeats her role as a dumb blonde secretary, Lois Laurel.
18- O. HENRY’S FULL HOUSE
20th Centuiy-Fox, 1952. Produced by Andre Hakim; directed by Henry Koster. Cast: Charles Laughton, David Wayne, and many more. Marilyn plays a streetwalker.
19- NIAGARA
20th Century- Fox, 1953. Produced by Charles Brackett; directed by Henry Hathaway. Cast: Joseph Gotten, Jean Peters, Casey Adams. Marilyn as an adulterous, murderous wife named Rose Loomis.
20- GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES
20th Century-Fox, 1953. Produced by Sol C. Siegel; directed by Howard Hawks. Cast: Jane Russell, Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, Tommy Noonan. Marilyn is Lorelei Lee in this musical comedy.
21- HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE
20th Century-Fox, 1953. Produced by Nunnally Johnson; directed by Jean Negulesco. Cast: Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall, William Powell, David Wayne, Rory Calhoun, Cameron Mitchell. Marilyn is a nearsighted gold digger named Pola Debevoise.
22- RIVER OF NO RETURN
20th Century-Fox, 1954. Produced by Stanley Rubin; directed by Otto Preminger. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Rory Calhoun, Tommy Rettig. Marilyn plays a hardened saloon singer.
23- THERE’S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS
20th Century-Fox, 1954. Produced by Sol C. Siegel; directed by Walter Lang. Cast: Ethel Merman, Donald O’Connor, Dan Dailey, Johnnie Ray, Mitzi Gaynor. Marilyn Monroe plays Vicky, a nightclub singer.
24- THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH
20th Century-Fox, 1955. Produced by Charles K. Feldman and Billy Wilder; directed by Billy Wilder. Cast: Tom Ewell, Evelyn Keyes, Sonny Tufts. Marilyn Monroe is a gorgeous blonde in the upstairs apartment.
25- BUS STOP
20th Century-Fox, 1956. Produced by Buddy Adler; directed by Joshua Logan. Cast: Don Murray, Arthur O’Connell, Betty Field, Eileen Heckart. Marilyn is Cherie, an abducted, would-be chanteuse.
26- THE PRINCE AND THE SHOWGIRL
A Warner Brothers Presentation of a Film by Marilyn Monroe Productions, Inc. and L. O. P. Ltd., 1957. Produced and directed by Laurence Olivier. Cast: Laurence Olivier, Sybil Thorndike. Marilyn is Elsie Marina, the showgirl.
27- SOME LIKE IT HOT
United Artists Release. A Mirisch Company Presentation of an Ashton Picture, 1959. Produced and directed by Billy Wilder. Cast: Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, Pat O’Brien, Joe E. Brown. Marilyn plays Sugar Kane, an alcoholic singer in an all-girl band.
28- LET’S MAKE LOVE
20th Century-Fox, 1960. Produced by Jerry Wald; directed by George Cukor. Cast: Yves Montand, Tony Randall, Frankie Vaughan, Wilfrid Hyde White. Marilyn is the Broadway actress Amanda Dell.
29- THE MISFITS
United Artists Release. A Seven Arts Productions Presentation of a John Huston Production, 1961. Produced by Frank E. Taylor; directed by John Huston. Cast: Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift, Eli Wallach, Thelma Ritter. Marilyn plays Roslyn Tabor, an ex-nightclub singer.
30- SOMETHING’S GOT TO GIVE
20th Century-Fox, 1962. Produced by Henry Weinstein; directed by George Cukor. Cast: Dean Martin, Cyd Charisse, Phil Silvers, Wally Cox. Unfinished.
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