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Blonde is a american film of genre Drama directed by Joyce Chopra released in USA on 13 may 2001 with Poppy Montgomery
Blonde (2001)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 13 may 2001
Length 2h45
Directed by Joyce Chopra
OriginUSA
Themes Films about television
Rating60%
Blonde is a 2001 American made-for-television film on the life of Marilyn Monroe, with Australian actress Poppy Montgomery in the lead role. The film was adapted from Joyce Carol Oates´s 2001 Pulitzer Prize finalist novel of the same name.
Synopsis
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 20th 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 player Joe DiMaggio and playwright Arthur Miller.Actors
Poppy Montgomery
(Norma Jean Baker / Marilyn Monroe)
Patricia Richardson
(Gladys Baker)
Patrick Dempsey
(Cass)
Wallace Shawn
(I.E. Shinn)
Kirstie Alley
(Elsie)
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