The Prince and the Showgirl

The Prince and the Showgirl is a British film comedy based on the play by Terence Rattigan from the year 1957.

Action

Grand Duke Karl, Prince Regent of Karpathien, comes in 1911 at a coronation ceremony in London. When visiting a revue met the Monarch of the attractive dancer Elsie Marina. The prince takes Elsie with a tête-à- tête, but which ends differently than expected. Elsie brings the Prince constantly composure, his overtures can not find the hoped-for response, and she falls asleep drunk. The next morning, she realizes that she has fallen in love with Karl, but she wants to be rid of. Elsie learns the Queen Mother, is her maid for the coronation ceremony, prevented a revolution of Charles's son Nicolas and wins but still Karls heart. Upon his departure she promises to wait for him.

Background

The film is the only work which was founded by Monroe and Milton Greene film production company, Marilyn Monroe Productions Inc. Monroe and Greene showed great courage when she added coated with Sir Laurence Olivier a classic actor and it came during the filming of tensions between Olivier and Monroe.

Despite the participation of Laurence Olivier, the film did not reach the expected success and Marilyn Monroe returned to Hollywood.

Colin Clark, who has worked as an assistant director during the filming, and later wrote two books about working with Marilyn Monroe and his love relationship with her. These memoirs were filmed in the drama My Week with Marilyn 2011.

Reviews

" Charming, witty, graceful and witty directed film adaptation of a stage play. Director and leading actor Olivier focuses primarily on the spectacle leadership; the cinematic resolution of the action, however, remains rather conventional and stiff. Marilyn Monroe shows in this charming comedy of its best work. "

" The Prince and the Showgirl is great fun if you do not take him seriously. Its author certainly does not. Terence Rattigan was just a game conceived to entertain us for two hours, and the actors makes the whole thing at any rate immense fun. You try to keep a straight face but a twinkle in his eye, she reveals. In the case of Laurence Olivier, the wink must first find a way through a thick monocle to reach the outside world, but it also creates. This dramatic performance is full of subtle humor ... Marilyn's role does not so subtle nuances. It is a simple-minded, open-minded showgirl and nothing more, and Miss Monroe plays it with cheerfulness, childhood innocence, hilarious Quieksern, pouting mouth. Eyes big as golf balls, and many a hearty swing their shapely curves. "

Awards

Actress Marilyn Monroe won the 1958 Targe d' Oro by the Italian David di Donatello, the French Étoile de Cristal for Best Foreign Actress and took a fourth place at the U.S. Laurel Awards for Best Comedy Actress. The British Film Academy Awards, the film ( Best Picture, British film, Laurence Olivier as Best British Actor, Best British Screenplay, Marilyn Monroe as best foreign actress) was nominated in five categories, but could not prevail against the competition itself.

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