Want to know the best Marilyn Monroe movies? How about the worst Marilyn Monroe movies? Curious about Marilyn Monroe’s box office grosses or which Marilyn Monroe movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Marilyn Monroe movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962), started showing in movies in 1947. Most of her early films were either uncredited or very small parts. Her first major role was in the B feature Ladies of the Chorus in 1948. After Ladies of the Chorus performed weakly at the box office, she started appearing in supporting parts in bigger budget movies like The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve. In early 1952, she admitted to posing for nude photos. In an interview, she said she did the photos because she was unable to pay her rent, the resulting publicity made the public curious about the struggling actress.
The rest of 1952 was a coming out party for Marilyn Monroe. Three of her movies, Monkey Business, Clash By Night and Don’t Bother To Knock were successful at the box office. All the parts were supporting parts but they were marketed as Marilyn Monroe films. By the time 1953 came around, she was a much in demand actress. During the next seven years she made classic films like Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How To Marry A Millionaire, The Seven Year Itch and her best film Some Like It Hot. In 1962 she started working on Something’s Got to Give, she however only showed up for work 12 out of 35 days and was dismissed from the movie. Unfortunately in August of that year she was found dead at her home in Los Angeles at the age of 36.
Her IMDb page shows 33 acting credits from 1947-1962. Ther page will rank 24 Marilyn Monroe movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos and movies that were not released in theaters were not included in the rankings.
Marilyn Monroe Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Marilyn Monroe Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In Ther Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort by Marilyn Monroe’s co-stars of her movies.
- Sort Marilyn Monroe movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Marilyn Monroe movies by box office rank by year of release
- Sort Marilyn Monroe movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Marilyn Monroe movie received.
- Sort Marilyn Monroe movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Possibly interesting facts about Marilyn Monroe.
1. She was never nominated for an Oscar® in her career.
2. She received 2 Golden Globe® nominations….winning for Some Like It Hot ….and receiving a nomination for Bus Stop.
3. The American Film Institute considers her one of the Top 10 movie stars of all time.
4. She was married to legendary baseball player Joe DiMaggio and later married to legendary writer Arthur Miller.
5. She was born Norma Jeane Mortenson and baptized as Norma Jeane Baker.
6. Fox talent scout Ben Lyon has gotten the credit for the name Marilyn Monroe….Marilyn was from stage actress Marilyn Miller. The last name Monroe was Marilyn’s mother’s maiden name.
7. Her crypt is located at Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, California.
8. Marilyn Monroes has two movies that I was unable to find any box office information….so it they were not included in th3e page….1952’s As Young as You Feel and 1951’s HomeTown Story.
9. And finally …her social security number was….563-32-0764
10. Check out Marilyn Monroe’s movie career compared to current and classic stars on our Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time page.
Cogerson’s Marilyn Monroe You Tube Video
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America Film Institutes’ Top 25 Screen Legend Actress and UMR’s Links That Rank All Of Their Movies.
Ladies and Gentlemen. May I include that Miss Monroe was and still a great actress. Not many stars these days can actually do what Marilyn did. The lady sang, dance, did comedy, drama, even action. And at the same time, retained herr extra- ordinary sexiness. Her talent is one of the reasons her films are still as popular as ever and still a major star today.
Hey ferninand. Thanks for the visit and the comment. I agree she is one of the greatest movie stars of all-time. I just watched Don’t Bother To Knock and was very impressed with her acting skills. She had something that has never been seen on screen since.
I saw some of Marilyn Monroe’s movies. She was so beautiful! She seemed like she had an innocense about her and sweetness. I saw “The Seven Year Itch.” She was wonderful! Its too bad about her death.
Hey gail641. Thanks for checking out my Monroe page, her entire life was very sad and her death was way too soon. Thanks for the comment and the compliment.
you’ve only seen 5? Oh, dear. I’ve seen 15.
Yep I have been a lack on my Marilyn Monroe movies….but I have seen 4 of the 5 in the last couple of years….the only one I saw years ago was Some Like It Hot. I will get better. LOL.
OH! Finally someone I KNOW ALL ABOUT!! I’ve seen every single movie, each one at least a dozen times. I’ve read every book & article about her from day one. Even as a pre-teen I was a Marylin lover. Yes, her screen personna was the Sex-Kitten but not everyone knows she was so much more than that. Norma Jean had an incredibly high IQ and in her private life she enjoyed history and literature and poetry. I better stop now or I’ll write a book……..LOVE this one EXTRA special, Cogerson!
Very impressive fpherj48….I am a serious movie buff and I have only seen 5 of her movies…I guess I have some work to do….thanks for a look at Marilyn Monroe the person rather than Marilyn Monroe the actress…I am very glad to see you liked this hub so much…your comments are greatly appreciated.
Marilyn was so beautiful, wasn’t she? I am writing a hub right now about dressing like a celebrity for Halloween and I am including Marilyn Monroe. I just knew you had to have a hub on her! I would like to link your hub to the Marilyn Monroe section of my hub, although you probably don’t need any help driving traffic to your pages. You are pretty famous yourself on net
Hey Jeannieinabottle….thanks for the compliment, thanks for the comments, and thanks for the link…..they are all greatly appreciated. Marilyn was very beautiful, I actually think she got more beautiful the older she got…such a shame that she has such a tough life. I look forward to reading your page about celebrity Halloween costumes…dressing like Marilyn would be classic.