The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)
The Prince and the Showgirl loses marks as it feels to go on twenty minutes too long and at times is hampered by over long scenes due to it's stage play origins and in truth not an awful lot happening.
Despite this Marilyn Monroe shines throughout and attacks the talky script with good comic timing almost overshadowing the gorgeous tight white dress she wears throughout. I don't know what it is with Marilyn. She's not the greatest actress but she owns every scene she's in, i simply can't stop looking at her, whereas the legendary Laurence Olivier seems subdued. He also directed the film and it puzzles me why he hampered himself with a stodgy Balkan accent and he comes across more hammy Lugosi than Shakespearean great.
English character actor Richard Wattis probably dined out on his role in this film for the rest of his life. Usually seen flitting in and out of British b-pictures, here he has lengthy scenes with Olivier and also escorts Marilyn Monroe to the coronation of George V.
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