Andrew Wilson – author of a new Monroe biography, I Wanna Be Loved By You; and Julie Owen Moylan – whose novel Elizabeth and Marilyn explores the star’s time in England, and in parallel to the life of Queen Elizabeth II – will make a joint appearance at the Unitarian Meeting House on Sunday, October 11 at 12:30 pm, as part of this year’s Bury Lit Fest in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. The discussion will be moderated by Andrew Hook, who has also written a short story about Marilyn (The Girl With the Horizontal Walk.)
This event will be followed at 2:00 pm by a rare theatrical screening of The Prince and the Showgirl, Marilyn’s only British-made film, at the nearby Abbeygate Cinema. (Tickets must be booked separately.)
“In 1911, British monarch George V’s coronation brings the Prince Regent of Carpathia to the city, where he has an unforgettable encounter with a chorus girl. Monroe produced this collaboration with Laurence Olivier after her company, Marilyn Monroe Productions, purchased the rights to Terence Rattigan’s The Sleeping Prince. Although Olivier made Prince Regent’s role in the stage version very much his own, here he is outshone by Monroe as the vivacious Elsie Marina. Her natural charm and ease eclipse his more formal acting style. Nevertheless, the frisson between them creates a delightfully charged chemistry.” (BFI)
