Monroe may refer to:
In the United States:
Norma Jeane Mortensen Baker (June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962), professionally recognized as Marilyn Monroe, was an American actress, model, and singer, who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s and early 1960s.
After spending much of her childhood in foster homes, Monroe began a career as a model, which led to a film contract in 1946 with Twentieth Century-Fox. Her early film appearances were minor, but her performances in The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve (both 1950) drew attention to her. By 1953, Monroe had progressed to a leading role in Niagara (1953), a melodramatic film noir that dwelt on her seductiveness. Her "dumb blonde" persona was used to comic effect in subsequent films such as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) and The Seven Year Itch (1955). Limited by typecasting, Monroe studied at the Actors Studio to broaden her range. Her dramatic performance in Bus Stop (1956) was hailed by critics and garnered a Golden Globe nomination. Her production company, Marilyn Monroe Productions, released The Prince and the Showgirl (1957), for which she received a BAFTA Award nomination and won a David di Donatello award. She received a Golden Globe Award for her performance in Some Like It Hot (1959). Monroe's last completed film was The Misfits, co-starring Clark Gable with screenplay by her then-husband, Arthur Miller.
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Based on actual events. When the commander of the crew of a B17 Flying Fortress bomber is killed in action in a raid over Sicily in 1943, his replacement, a young naive pilot struggles to be accepted by the plane's already tight-knit Irish American crew.
Battles Were Fought on the Ground. The War Was Won in the Sky
Plot
People always told Santos he was something special. His Uncle told him to get a skill, so he became a hustler and with his three,they became "The Stick Up Kids" Harlem would never be the same. They thought they had it all... Money, cars, the lifestyle and the lingo. The only two words They didn't know were JURISDICTION AND GENTRIFICATION but in their world it was all for one and one for all until an unexpected, mysterious death, forced "The Stick Up Kids"to change their focus from doing crime to stopping the "North Manhattan Project". Now it was up to Santos to pull off one last sting before it destroyed them all. Watch out America. 'The Stick Up Kids" are coming to your town!
Keywords: gentrification, harlem-manhattan-new-york-city, independent-film, manhattan-new-york-city, new-york-city, urban-setting
A story about puppy love and how long it would take said puppy to decompose.
Plot
When her husband dies, an elderly lady named Nora faces blindness and hearing problems and feels sorry for herself around Christmas time. She and a friend Madeline reminince back to good times they had in the past, going to basketball games, the Tabernacle Choir concert, and planning for the Christmas Pageant. Nora is in charge of the Christmas Pageant and she goes blind while she is preparing it. On Christmas Eve, Nora makes english butter toffee for the Christmas Carolers and it turns out bad. She feels sorry for herself and almost loses hope. Nora recieves a special Christmas gift at the Pageant that Jesus Christ does live and loves her.
Keywords: aging, bible-quote, blindness, bus, character-name-in-title, christian, christmas, christmas-pageant, christmas-tree, concert
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An unlucky woman's mother is murdered by a scarf-wielding killer named Silk, leaving the woman injured, traumatised and suffering from amnesia. She's committed to a mental institution, where Silk follows her, looking for the papers he was trying to get from her mother. And Silk's only the beginning of her problems, since the asylum is run by a mad doctor, performing experiments in chemical lobotomies!
Keywords: amnesia, cult-film, exploitation, female-frontal-nudity, female-full-frontal-nudity, female-nudity, female-rear-nudity, grindhouse, independent-film, lesbian-sex
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In Santa Barbara, California, the fascinating and tumultuous life of the rich Capwells around who gravitate other families, from the Lockridges, the rival family, to the Andrades or the Perkins, more modest families but which destinies know the same torments.
Keywords: barbara, nun, santa-barbara-california, soap-opera
Courtney: Mason, you look wonderful in your tux.::Mason: But not as lovely as you two ladies. What did you do, Madeline, mug a chandelier on the way in?
Ted: Oh, come on Julia, haven't you ever been in love?::Julia: Yes. I've also had scarlet fever and the measles. Ask me which one I liked best.
Lionel Lockridge: The doctor says I'm going to live.::Augusta Lockridge: Am I to be spared nothing?
C.C.: They ought to call my biography, "The Man Whose Wives Refuse To Die."
Augusta Lockridge: Laken, I know I raised you to be cheerful and always look on the bright side of things, but forget about all that right now because this is a time of crisis!
Gina: I only blackmail people who can afford it! I know what I'm doing!
Gina: I stole his sperm.::Lily: You WHAT?::Gina: You heard me! I don't want to repeat it!::Lily: What - did you follow him around with a little bottle until...::Gina: No, no, no, it wasn't like that! I got a job at a sperm bank where I knew he made a deposit and I simply... made a... withdrawal.
Julia Wainwright Capwell: No, Gracie, you can't push yet! Not 'til the baby's head's out!::Mason: Julia, if the woman wants to push...::Julia Wainwright Capwell: What'd you do, get a uterus for Christmas?
[Struggling to come up with nice things to say about Gina]::Mason: Well, I never actually saw her pull the wings off butterflies.
Lionel Lockridge: Let's talk about trust. We used to have that.::Augusta Lockridge: Yes. We also used to have a Studebaker.
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A young businessman, out joging one night, sees a beautiful woman undressing in her bedroom window and he is compelled to return every night to watch her, until one night he witnesses a murder in the same apartment and soon becomes the prime suspect because of a variety of circumstances evolving from his voyeurism.
Keywords: cigarette-smoking, female-nudity, independent-film, leg, lesbian, lesbianism, male-to-female-foot-in-crotch, murder, ménage-à-trois, psychiatrist
Harry Ross: [after being hit by JoBeth as she's being arrested] You know, that woman *really* pisses me off!
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Franklin Cane is a red-hot professional tennis player who climbs the ladder of success with his trainer, Jonathan, at his side. Jonathan was once considered the greatest American tennis player and intends to guide Franklin to the high-road. Franklin does not transcend the interest he has in local Hollywood-type parties littered with has-beens, wannabes and think-they-ares. It is there that he meets Cynthia, a pretty photographer who makes a living photographing people like French filmmaker Jean Renoir and taking production photos of commercials. Cane becomes slowly seduced by the fast-track life and, when Jonathan suddenly passes away in his sleep, he succumbs to a lifestyle that is completely devoid of morality. He drops off Cynthia at the side of the road, so to speak, and continues driving to a bleak, uncertain future.
Keywords: cameos, decadence, glamorous-lifestyle, independent-film, success, tennis
The world is yours if you're a winner.
Hollywood Party Guests: We were gonna cast Lee Marvin, the new great American star. But we couldn't get him so I want to my assistant and said, "Do what you think is right but cast this thing!" Two days later, he calls me back and says, "I've got someone." And I say, "Sensational. Who?"... and he says "Julie Newmar."
Hollywood Party Guests: I'm looking for a girl with a kind of... midnight quality.::Cynthia: I'm afraid I'm not the type at all.::Hollywood Party Guests: But you have such a lovely figure. Did anyone ever try to put you on film?::Cynthia: I'm not interested in sleeping with you.
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[Chorus:]
When I see you smile,
I can face the world, ohhh,
You know I can do anything.
When I see you smile,
I see a ray of light, ohhh,
I see you shining right to the way now.
[Verse 1:]
Sometimes I wonder if i'll ever make it through,
Through this world without you,
I just wouldn't have a clue.
Sometimes it seems this world's closing in on me,
And there's no way of breaking free,
And then I see you reach for me.
Sometimes i wanna give up,
I wanna give in,
I wanna quit the fight,
And then I see you baby and everything's alright,
And everything's alright.
[Chorus:]
When I see you smile,
I can face the world, ohhh,
You know I can do anything.
When I see you smile,
I see a ray of light, ohhh,
I see you shining right to the way now.
[Verse 2:]
Baby there's nothing in this world i can ever do,
That the touch of your hands can't do,
It's like nothing i ever knew, yeah.
And when the rain is falling,
I can feel it,
That you're here with me now,
I wanna ask you baby if everything's alright,
If everything's alright.
[Chorus:]
When I see you smile,
I can face the world, ohhh,
You know I can do anything.
When I see you smile,
I see a ray of light, ohhh,
I see you shining right to the way now.
[MC/Rap Section]
[Chorus:]
When I see you smile,
I can face the world, ohhh,
You know I can do anything.
When I see you smile,
I see a ray of light, ohhh,
I see you shining right to the way now.
Oh baby,
I'm your number one lady,
You know that I'm your only baby.
[Chorus:]
When I see you smile,
I can face the world, ohhh,
You know I can do anything.
When I see you smile,
I see a ray of light, ohhh,
I see you shining right to the way now.
[Chorus to fade]
When I see you smile,
I can face the world, ohhh,
You know I can do anything.
When I see you smile,
I see a ray of light, ohhh,
I see you shining right to the way now.