Marilyn Monroe Special Anniversary Collection (The Seven Year Itch / Gentlemen Prefer Blondes / Niagara / River of No Return / Let's Make Love / Marilyn - The Final Days)

I love Marylin Monroe movies. This is a good movie. Her performance was great!

Well, this is by no means the definitive Marilyn Monroe Collection, but represents just the highlight movies of her career as an actress.One should also own "Bus Stop", "How to Marry a Millionaire", "Monkey Business", "Don't Bother to Knock", "O'Henry's Full House", "Asphalt Jungle" and "The Misfits", in order to have a somewhat complete picture of her movie career.But if one wants to start somewhere, this is the Basic Marilyn Monroe Collection, starting in order with "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", a very funny andsuccessful Comedy, followed by "Niagara", a romantic thriller, "River of No Return", also starring Robert Mitchum in a very interesting Western (in which Marilyn seems to be far more herself in a natural part and not so stereotyped as usual), "The Seven Year Itch", the iconic comedy which actually madeMarilyn into a myth and one of the last movies, "Let's Make Love", with French actor/singer Yves Montand at her side, which can be considered a lukewarm and pale example of unsuccessful comedy, attempting to revive her career.In addition to these, comes a feature long documentary about her "Final Days", which includes, toward the end, the reconstructed and alas, truncated (due to her premature death) final movie in which Marilyn was supposed to appear, opposite Dean Martin and Cyd Charisse, called "Something Got to Give".A true rarity and a unique document in time.All the copies are special Anniversary editions, which also appeared earlier in different boxed sets, which means that they all received a digital remastering of picture elements and a full digital transfer on DVD.The sound is on all, and where possible, either in Stereo or Surround and this has been achieved with a very accurate remastering, giving by now, the best audio quality possible.I call it an excellent package and deal for this price.A must, for all those who remember Marilyn with fondness and respect.

If you are a Marilyn Monroe' fan this is a great starter set.

One of my favorite actors of all time. I have loved this movie forever, now I own it 🥰 Marilyn was icing on my Yves cake ♥️

As of yet, I have only watched 3 of the films in this set: The Seven Year Itch, River of No Return, and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The other films appear to be some of the best from her filmography, and I'm assuming that most people interested in her will know the films anyway. I'll thus skip the movie reviews.The Packaging is basically what I assumed it would be: A sturdy box that is used to hold 6 DVD movies. The outer case is really nice looking, and it makes for a nice display piece on the shelf.The individual movies are in regular DVD cases, all with individual artwork (featuring the original poster artwork). They are much nicer looking than DVD cases from the Diamond Collection. The only thing that bothers me is that the screen-captures on the rear-DVD art are in B&W, even though some of the movies are in color.The picture of the films look much nicer than I'd expect from such old movies. They still have that classic-cinema look - you can tell they're old, but everything is crisp, there's no dust, etc.My only big complaint is that the DVD's don't seem to have much in the area of bonus materials. The Seven Year Itch is the only one with anything besides restoration comparisons and still galleries. One smaller complaint is that the DVD's (besides River and Final Years) don't have booklets with production info.Overall, it was well worth the price. My box got a tad dinged in the shipping - Amazon didn't put much padding in the box - but as far as the actual product, it would be a great gift for a film fan.

This set has is reasonably priced, contains some of her greats, and - I think - contains the best non-blu-ray transfers I've seen. On top of that, it appears to be officially licensed.The Diamond blu-ray collection and others that were officially licensed and now out of print are, I think, over-priced.There are cheaper sets, too. I recently purchased one with 10 movies, but the transfers are not as good, and the framing and aspect ratios aren't always accurate. It's one thing to love a movie so much you could just listen to it, but when notice the speaker's body or head are too close to the frame's edge, you'll wish you'd splurged.

Hopefully won't have to update this,so for now I will just say that I purchased this item/set believing the description that it included the movie "River of no return" but it didn't, got "Some like it hot" instead, luckily or unluckily I got it from the used column for a cheaper price,so if the ones that I received play well then it will be a good purchase with out that particular movie,,but it's unfortunate for me that that was the main reason I wanted these was for that particular movie,,shucks. Maybe the higher price set does have that movie,who knows where the flub up occurred,,prob my own fault. se la vie !!

A good friend of mine is a big fan of Marilyn Monroe and he was glad to get such a collection of her best films as a birthday/Christmas present. I'd been promising it for years. It plays excellently