Film Chest has locked into Dec. 6 for the DVD release of the three-disc collection titled Blonde: The Marilyn Stories.
With writer/director Andrew Dominik’s film adaptation of the Joyce Carol Oates’ novel, Blonde, dominating the Netflix viewing landscape — and a potential Oscar nominee (although Netflix is notorious for playing fast and loose with its box office action) — the timing for this DVD collection is absolutely spot-on.
So, what’s in the package? For starters, we have director Joyce Eliason’s 2001 mini-series adaptation of the same Joyce Carol Oates’ novel, Blonde. Here, Poppy Montgomery (Magic Beyond Words: The J.K. Rowling Story … as Carrie Wells in the Unforgettable television series and as Samantha Spade in the Without a Trace series) plays the adult Marilyn Monroe/Norma Jean Baker (with Skye McCole Bartusiak as the younger version).
Others in the massive ensemble cast include Titus Welliver as “The Baseball Player” (wonder who that could be?), Griffin Dunne as the “Playwright” (ha ha) and such well-known stars as Ann-Margret, Kirstie Alley, Eric Bogosian, Wallace Shawn, etc., playing various characters who were part of Marilyn Monroe’s life and career.
Next up in the collection is director John Patterson’s 1991 early-years biopic, Marilyn and Me, starring Susan Griffiths as Monroe (who also cameoed Monroe in Pulp Fiction and was Monroe again in Elton John’s music video, “Candle in the Wind”), which depicts her relationship with Robert Slatzer (played by Jesse Dabson), who would later author two books on his relationship with Norma Jean Baker — “The Life and Curious Death of Marilyn Monroe” and “The Marilyn Files.”
The third entry in this three-disc DVD collection from the Film Chest on Dec. 6 is writer/director Larry Buchanan’s 1976 theatrical release of Goodbye, Norma Jean, starring Misty Rowe (The Hitchhikers, Double Exposure, Class Reunion) as Norma Jean Baker during her pre-Marilyn Monroe years.
Bonus goodies including in this must-have collection include a Marilyn Monroe documentary, her first television appearance on The Jack Benny Show, a massive photo gallery and the short film titled The Legend of Marilyn Monroe.
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