![]() ![]() "My Week with Marilyn" is about Monroe making the "Prince and the Showgirl" with Laurence Olivier, who also directed that movie. SIEGEL: That is not Marilyn Monroe it's Michelle Williams playing her. MICHELLE WILLIAMS: (as Marilyn Monroe) (Singing) Heat wave by letting my feet erase, in such a way that the councilman say that, (unintelligible) can, can, can. Not just - did that happen in 1959 or was it 1961, but does that film given a truthful sense of that person or of that event? Today's movie: "My Week with Marilyn." ![]() So, with some new biographical films in the theatres this season, we thought we'd devote some time this week to a little truth squadding. ![]() Lawrence, but a deluge of contrary facts could never dampen the image that millions have of Peter O'Toole portraying him in "Lawrence of Arabia." Put a historical figure in a movie, and make the movie a hit, and Russell Crowe becomes everyone's idea of John Nash with "The Beautiful Mind." The real life Woodward and Bernstein must bunk in, in the same neurons where Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman reside. This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. ![]()
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