Blonde (film)

Blonde is a 2001 made-for-television film on the life of Marilyn Monroe. Australian actress Poppy Montgomery steps into the role of the blonde bombshell who transformed herself from Norma Jean Baker to the sexy Hollywood Icon.

Plot

A fictional biography of Marilyn Monroe mixed with a series of real events in her life. With glimpses into her childhood years, teenaged marriage to first husband James Dougherty, meeting with photographer Otto Ose, career with XX Century Fox, relationship with her mother, foster parents, life wasters Charles Chaplin Jr (Cass), Edward G. Robinson Jr (Eddie G), and her marriages to baseball great Joe DiMaggio and playwright Arthur Miller.

Cast

• Poppy Montgomery as Norma Jean Baker/Marilyn Monroe
• Patricia Richardson as Gladys Baker
• Patrick Dempsey as Cass
• Wallace Shawn as I.E. Shinn
• Titus Welliver as The Baseball Player - Joe DiMaggio
• Griffin Dunne as The Playwright - Arthur Miller
• Eric Bogosian as Otto Ose
• Niklaus Lange as Bucky Glazer
• Skye McCole Bartusiak as Young Norma Jean
• Jensen Ackles as Eddie G.
• Richard Roxburgh as Mr. R
• Ann-Margaret as Della Monroe
• Kirstie Alley as Elsie
• Emily Browning as Fleece
• Matthew O'Sullivan as Lee Strasberg
• Andrew Clarke as Laurence Olivier
• Bruce Hughes as Clark Gable
• Renee Henderson as Jane Russell

External links

• Blonde at the Internet Movie Database