Ahead of the Academy Awards this Sunday, two Oscar-worthy movies that set Marilyn on a path to stardom are showing in the US. The Asphalt Jungle – which scored four nominations – is coming to the Starlight Room in Port Townsend, Washington State on Thursday, March 12 at 7 pm.
“In a smog-choked city somewhere in the American Midwest, an aging criminal mastermind, newly released from prison, hatches a plan for a million-dollar jewel heist and draws a wealthy lawyer and a cherry-picked trio of outlaws into his carefully devised but inevitably doomed scheme. Anchored by an abundance of nuanced performances from a gifted ensemble-including a tight-jawed Sterling Hayden and a sultry Marilyn Monroe in her breakout role – this gritty crime classic by John Huston climaxes in a meticulously detailed anatomy of a robbery that has reverberated through the genre ever since.”
All About Eve – which gets a free screening at Stillwater Community Centre in Oklahoma on Friday, March 13 at 7 pm – set an Academy Awards record with fourteen nominations, unmatched until Titanic (1997.)
In her only Oscars appearance, Marilyn presented Thomas T. Moulton with the award for Best Sound Recording – one of six accolades for All About Eve.
75 years later, Eve‘s record has finally been surpassed with sixteen nominations for Sinners, closely followed by One Battle After Another with thirteen.
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