My Week with Marilyn, Colin Clark
My Week with Marilyn, Colin Clark
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My Week with Marilyn

Author: Colin Clark

Narrator: Simon Prebble

Unabridged: 3 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/04/2011

Synopsis

In 1956 twenty-three-year-old Colin Clark began work as a lowly assistant on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl, the film that united Sir Laurence Olivier with Marilyn Monroe. The blonde bombshell and the legendary actor were ill suited from the start. Monroe, on honeymoon with her new husband, the celebrated playwright Arthur Miller, was insecure, often late, and heavily medicated on pills. Olivier, obsessively punctual, had no patience for Monroe and the production became chaotic. Clark was perceptive in his assessment of what seemed to be going wrong in Monroe's life: too many hangers-on, intense insecurity, and too many pills. Before long, Monroe and Clark spent an innocent week together in the English countryside and Clark became her confidant and ally. This special theatrical edition also includes The Prince, The Showgirl and Me, Colin Clark's diary during the film's production.

About Colin Clark

Colin Clark (1932-2002) was a British writer and filmmaker. He was the younger brother of the famous diarist Alan Clark and younger son of Sir Kenneth ('Lord Clark of Civilization'), and was educated at Eton and Oxford. After The Prince and the Showgirl, he became a personal assistant to Laurence Olivier before moving to Granada Television. Subsequently he produced and directed over 100 arts documentary films in America and Britain. His autobiography Younger Brother, Younger Son was published in 1997.

About Simon Prebble

Simon Prebble has played in everything from soaps to Shakespeare on stage and television, but it is as a veteran narrator of over four hundred audiobooks that he has made his mark since coming to the United States in 1990. One of AudioFile’s Golden Voices, he has received over twenty Earphones Awards and five Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, and he has been a finalist fourteen times for an Audie Award. He was Publishers Weekly’s 2006 Narrator of the Year and Booklist’s 2010 Voice of Choice.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Baba on August 05, 2022

Colin, Alan Clark's brother, tells the truly amazingly detailed story (since, made into a movie) of a week he spent involved with Marilyn Monroe, whilst being third associate director ('gofer') for the filming of 'The Prince & The Showgirl'; hired as a family friend of Laurence Olivier and Vivian Le......more

Goodreads review by Darla on March 22, 2013

I watched the movie and read the book in the same week. Marilyn Monroe is a fascinating person and I enjoyed this glimpse into her career.......more

Goodreads review by piperitapitta on March 28, 2020

Dedicato a una stella. Che l'abbia letto nel mese di agosto è solo una coincidenza. O forse no. Perché era la fine dell'estate del 1956 quando l'allora giovanissimo Colin Clark venne assunto sul set del film «Il principe e la ballerina» con Laurence Olivier e Marilyn Monroe, come terzo assistente alla......more

Goodreads review by Gerry on October 17, 2021

This is an unusual book in that it combines two books into one, successfully it should be said. They are both Colin Clark's works, 'The Prince the Showgirl and Me' from 1995 and 'My Week with Marilyn' from 2005. It also includes an introduction from Simon Curtis, the director of the film ‘My Week wi......more

Goodreads review by Krista on January 15, 2013

I like a lightweight audio book when I'm walking, and I admit this fit the bill: no great lessons or revelations, just a self-aggrandizing story released 50 years after the events apparently took place, long after anyone else is still alive to dispute the facts. So apparently, a 23 year old nobody, a......more

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