My Top 5 Marilyn Monroe Performances

This year marks the 100th birthday of Marilyn Monroe. I thought I would take the opportunity to share the five film performances that I consider to be her best. Here are the other five films that would make my Marilyn top 10: Clash By Night(I’m in awe that she stole this from Barbara Stanwyck), Some Like It Hot, Don’t Bother To Knock, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and River Of No Return. I’ve always loved this shot of Marilyn outside the Actors Studio in New York. Marilyn as Rose Loomis in Niagara. Image source Wikimedia Commons. Niagara(1953). Marilyn is clearly relishing every moment playing Rose Loomis, the young femme fatale who is planning her husband’s murder so she can go off with the younger man who she’s fallen for. What I love most about Marilyn’s performance is that she doesn’t make Rose either all bad or entirely sympathetic. She goes right down the middle. This dame is complicated. Rose is sexy and knows it. She wants fun. She wants male attention. She’s not ashamed of any of…