Films
Marilyn appeared in at least 30 films (including the uncompleted Something's Got To Give). As a Method Actress she attended the Actors Studio where the other students remember her sitting quietly at the back of the room and writing everything down studiously.
At the 1953 premiere of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Monroe and Russell were
I Wanna Be Loved By You - Lyrics
Two Little Girls From Little Rock - Lyrics
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim 1947 (uncredited, cut from film)
Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! 1948 (uncredited, Girl in Canoe)
Dangerous Years
1948 (Evie)
Ladies Of The Chorus
1949 (Peggy Martin)
The Asphalt Jungle
1950 (Angela Phinlay)
Love Happy
1950 Grunion's client,
All About Eve 1950 (Claudia Caswell)
Ticket to Tomahawk, A 1950 (uncredited, Clara)
Right Cross 1950 (uncredited, Dusky Ledoux)
The Fireball 1950 (Polly)
Love Nest 1951 (Roberta Stevens)
Let's Make It Legal 1951 (Joyce Mannering)
Hometown Story 1951 (Iris Martin)
As Young as You Feel 1951 (Harriet)
We're Not Married! 1952 (Annabel Norris)
Don't Bother to Knock 1952 (Nell Forbes)
O. Henry's Full House 1952 (Streetwalker in The Cop and the Anthem)
Monkey Business 1952 (Lois Laurel)
Clash by Night 1952 (Peggy)
How to Marry a Millionaire 1953 (Pola Debevoise)
Niagara 1953 (Rose Loomis)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953 (Lorelei Lee)
There's No Business Like Show Business 1954 (Vicky Hoffman/Parker)
River of No Return 1954 (Kay Weston)
The Seven Year Itch 1955 (The Girl)
Bus Stop 1956 (Cherie)
The Prince and the Showgirl 1957 (Elsie Marina)
Some Like It Hot 1959 (Sugar Kane)
Let's Make Love 1960 (Amanda Dell)
The Misfits 1961 (Roslyn Tabor)
Something's Got to Give (unfinished) 1962 (Ellen Arden)
People who knew her at that time were to recall that she "never went anywhere without a book in her hands".
awarded the accolade of impressing their hands and feet in the Pavement of the Stars at Graumann's Theatre. Marilyn apparently joked that, being who they were, Russell should shove her chest in the cement, and she herself should sit in it as these were their best known parts!
Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend - Lyrics
Filmography