Cinema's most luminous blonde is exquisite in all four of these comedies, but her saucy and sad singer Sugar in Billy Wilder's masterpiece Some Like It Hot was her deftest comic performance of all.
Monroe is equally lovely in the other frothy Fifties flicks – The Seven Year Itch, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to Marry a Millionaire – that make up this collection to mark 50 years since her death. "I wanna be loved by you alo-o-one. Boop boop e doo"…
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