Becoming Marilyn

The story of how Norma Jeane Mortenson became Marilyn Monroe (1926-62), a lucid path of self-discovery, from anonymity to stardom: the painful birth of a myth.

Cast

Agnès Jaoui

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Georgia Scalliet

as Marilyn (voice)

Marilyn Monroe

as Self (archive footage)

Jean Harlow

as (archive footage)

Ingrid Bergman

as (archive footage)

Anita Ekberg

as (archive footage)

Rita Hayworth

as (archive footage)

Jane Russell

as (archive footage)

Mae West

as (archive footage)

Betty Grable

as (archive footage)

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