Don't Bother to Knock is a 1952 American psychological film noir thriller directed by Roy Ward Baker and starring Richard Widmark and Marilyn Monroe. Daniel Taradash wrote the script, which was based on Charlotte Armstrong's 1951 novel Mischief. Monroe plays a troubled babysitter who is watching a toddler in the same New York hotel where Widmark's character, a pilot, is staying. Her odd behavior makes him realize that she is the absolute last person the parents should have entrusted their daughter to.

The film, directed by Roy, follows a commercial pilot who is depressed when his lover dumps him. Jed Towers (Richard Widmark) encounters a sultry beauty called Nell Forbes (Monroe) babysitting in a neighboring hotel room to help him get over her. After meeting and falling in love with Nell, Jed gradually finds that the femme fatale is considerably more dangerous than she appears. In the source literature, Nell's last name is Munroe, but when Marilyn was cast, it was altered to Forbes.

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Directed by: Roy Ward Baker

Release date: July 18, 1952

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044557

All About Eve is a 1950 American drama film produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. It's based on Mary Orr's 1946 short tale "The Wisdom of Eve," albeit she doesn't get a film credit.

The film stars Bette Davis as Margo Channing, a well-liked but elderly Broadway performer, and Anne Baxter as Eve Harrington, an astute young admirer who infiltrates Channing's life, putting her career and personal relationships in jeopardy. George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe, Thelma Ritter, Marilyn Monroe in one of her first performances, Gregory Ratoff, Barbara Bates, and Walter Hampden also appear in the picture.

All About Eve garnered a record 14 Academy Award nominations and won six, including Best Picture. It was praised by reviewers at the time of its release. All About Eve is the first film in Academy Award history to garner four nominations for female performance (Davis and Baxter as Best Actress, Holm and Ritter as Best Supporting Actress). All About Eve, widely regarded as one of the finest films of all time, was one of the first 50 films to be selected for preservation in the National Film Registry of the United States Library of Congress, as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically important."

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Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Release date: October 13, 1950

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042192

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a 1953 American musical comedy film based on the same-named 1949 Broadway musical. Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe lead in the film, which was directed by Howard Hawks and also features Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, Tommy Noonan, George Winslow, Taylor Holmes, and Norma Varden in supporting parts.

Jack Cole choreographed the film's humorous situations and musical moments, while Hoagy Carmichael, Harold Adamson, Jule Styne, and Leo Robin wrote the music. Styne and Robin's songs are from the Broadway musical, while Carmichael and Adamson's songs were composed specifically for the film. Monroe was paid her customary contract wage of $500 per week, despite the film's title, while Russell, the more well-known actress at the time, was paid $200,000.

The wonderful musical rom-com by Howard Hawkes Intense dance moments and incandescent chemistry between Monroe and co-star Jane Russell is featured in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. In fact, Madonna's Material Girl imitated Monroe's Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend number. When Dorothy (Russell) and Lorelei (Monroe), two lounge-singing showgirls, travel to Paris on a luxurious cruise liner, the two in-demand ladies become the object of every man's dreams.

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Directed by: Howard Hawks

Release date: July 1, 1953

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045810

John Huston directed The Asphalt Jungle, a 1950 American film noir heist film. It depicts the narrative of a diamond burglary in a Midwestern city and is based on W. R. Burnett's 1949 novel of the same name. Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, and Jean Hagen star in the picture, which also stars James Whitmore, Sam Jaffe, and John McIntire. In one of her early roles, Marilyn Monroe also appears. The film received four Academy Award nominations. The Library of Congress chose The Asphalt Jungle for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 2008, citing it as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically important."

Knowing that Monroe's first breakthrough part was directed by the same guy (John Huston) who also directed her final cinematic appearance is poetic circularity. It's almost eerie how similar everything is! From Kubrick's The Killing to Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, and everything in between, Huston's dynamic, genre-changing heist picture The Asphalt Jungle foreshadowed and impacted everything from Kubrick's The Killing to Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs and everything in between. The film received four Oscar nominations for its narrative of a spectacular jewel robbery that unravels in the aftermath.

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Directed by: John Huston

Release date: May 12, 1950

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042208

The Misfits is a 1961 American western film directed by John Huston and starring Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, and Montgomery Clift. It was written by Arthur Miller and stars Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, and Montgomery Clift. Thelma Ritter, Eli Wallach, and Kevin McCarthy are among the supporting cast members. The Misfits was Clark Gable's and Marilyn Monroe's final picture, adapted by Miller from his own short story of the same name published in Esquire in October 1957. The picture was released after Gable's death in 1962, and Monroe's death in 1962.

In Dayton, Nevada, and the western Nevada desert in 1960, a newly divorced woman (Marilyn Monroe) spends time with her friendly landlady Isabelle Steers (Thelma Ritter), an old-school cowboy (Clark Gable), the cowboy's tow truck-driving and plane-flying friend (Eli Wallach), and their rodeo-riding, bronc-busting friend (Montgomery Clift).

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Directed by: John Huston

Release date: February 1, 1961

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055184

Billy Wilder directed, produced, and co-wrote the 1959 romantic comedy film Some Like It Hot. Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon lead in the film, which also features George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee, Grace Lee Whitney, and Nehemiah Persoff. The script by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is based on Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan's screenplay for the French film Fanfare of Love, which was released in 1935. The story revolves around two musicians who disguise themselves as ladies in order to flee from mafia gangsters they observed committing a crime.

Monroe's seductive portrayal as Sugar Kane Kowalczyk in Some Like It Hot is without a question her best on-screen performance. As a result, she received the first of two Golden Globes for her famous performance in 1960!

After witnessing the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, two Chicago musicians are on the run in this funny Billy Wilder comedy. Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) disguise themselves as ladies and join an all-female singing ensemble on a train to stay incognito. Posing as Daphne and Josephine, the two males are unable to resist the seductive attractions of Sugar Kane, a gorgeous singer.

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Directed by: Billy Wilder

Release date: March 29, 1959

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053291

Monkey Business is a black-and-white American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, and Marilyn Monroe, released in 1952. This film is sometimes referred to as Howard Hawks' Monkey Business to prevent confusion with the 1931 Marx Brothers picture of the same name.

Monroe appears with Hollywood royalty Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers in Howard Hawkes' sci-fi screwball comedy Monkey Business. For her work in the film, the latter received a Golden Globe nomination. The plot revolves around a scientist recruited by a chemical business to find a fountain of youth pill. Dr. Fulton (Grant) is given anti-aging characteristics equivalent to a teenager's health after mistakenly injecting himself. As a result, Fulton and his sultry secretary, Lois, scour the town (Monroe). Everything is OK until Fulton's wife Edwina (Rogers) consumes a large quantity of the medication herself!

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Directed by: Howard Hawks

Release date: September 5, 1952

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044916

The Seven Year Itch is a romantic comedy film directed by Billy Wilder in 1955, based on a script he co-wrote with George Axelrod based on the 1952 three-act play of the same name. Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell reprise their roles in the film. Monroe standing on a subway grate as her white dress is blown aloft by a passing train is one of the most famous pop-culture pictures of the twentieth century. Psychologists have coined the word, which refers to a loss of interest in monogamous relationships after seven years of marriage.

The term "seven year itch" refers to the period of time it takes for a married couple to become dissatisfied with their marital commitment. Monroe is restricted to the position of The Girl in Billy Wilder's classic rom-com. The film follows New Yorker Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell, who won a Golden Globe for his portrayal), a husband and father who decides to spend a lonely summer break as a bachelor. Richard, who is usually true to his wife, has a problem with faithfulness after meeting his gorgeous new upstairs neighbor (Monroe).

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Directed by: Billy Wilder

Release date: June 1, 1955

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048605

The film Niagara was directed by Henry Hathaway, produced by Charles Brackett, and written by Brackett, Richard L. Breen, and Walter Reisch in 1953. Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, and Max Showalter feature in the picture. That year, it was one of 20th Century Fox's biggest box-office successes.

Monroe scorches the screen in Niagra, a romance film noir that reveals a considerably more ruthless and calculated side of the pin-up girl than was previously revealed. Rose Loomis (Monroe) plots to have her boyfriend Ted Patrick (Richard Allen) murdered while on her honeymoon with her new husband George (Joseph Cotton) near Niagra Falls. When George goes away, a Niagra Falls hotel employee called Polly (Jean Peters) observes him making out with another lady.

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Directed by: Henry Hathaway

Release date: January 21, 1953

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046126

Nunnally Johnson wrote and produced How to Marry a Millionaire, a 1953 American romantic comedy film directed by Jean Negulesco. The script was based on Zoe Akins' play The Greeks Had a Word for It (1930) and Dale Eunson and Katherine Albert's play Loco (1946). Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe, and Lauren Bacall play glamorous Manhattan models, while William Powell, David Wayne, Rory Calhoun, and Cameron Mitchell play their affluent clients. Monroe's name was put first in all promotions, including the trailer, despite Grable's top billing in the screen credits.

Monroe starred with Lauren Bacall and Betty Grable in the breezy and slightly sleazy rom-com How to Marry a Millionaire as one of a harem of stunning gold-diggers. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design! The plot revolves around a group of unmarried women who go out to marry affluent guys for the money. The girls set up an elegant apartment to entice wealthy guys, but they struggle to locate the appropriate ones. The females have fun and fall in love after letting their guard down.

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Directed by: Jean Negulesco

Release date: November 5, 1953

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045891