Love, Marilyn | |
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Directed by | Liz Garbus |
Screenplay by | Liz Garbus |
Based on | the book Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters by editors: Stanley F. Buchthal Bernard Comment |
Produced by | Stanley F. Buchthal Liz Garbus Amy Hobby |
Starring | Marilyn Monroe |
Cinematography | Maryse Alberti |
Edited by | Azin Samari |
Music by | Philip Sheppard |
Production companies | |
Distributed by | Home Box Office StudioCanal |
Release dates | |
Running time | 107 minutes[1] |
Countries | United States France |
Language | English |
Love, Marilyn is a 2012 American documentary film about American actress and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe's writings directed by Liz Garbus and produced by Stanley F. Buchthal, Garbus, and Amy Hobby. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2012 and is based on the 2010 non-fiction book Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters, edited by Buchthal and Bernard Comment.[2] The production firms that produced the film included the Diamond Girl production company, Sol's Luncheonette Production and the French-based StudioCanal production company, whose parent company (Canal+ Group) owns the third-largest film library in the world.
The film was initially slated to be named Fragments, but was later changed to Love, Marilyn.[3]