The following abbreviations are used for the credits of Marilyn Monroe’s twenty-nine completed and released motion pictures:
P: Producer
D: Director
Sc: Author of screenplay
b/o: based on
C: Cinematographer
b/w: black and white (all others in Technicolor or DeLuxe)
Rel: Release date
Scudda-Hoo! Scudda-Hay!
P: Walter Morosco for Fox. D/Sc: F. Hugh Herbert, b/o a novel by George Chamberlain. C: Ernest Palmer. Rel: April 1948. MM as Peggy; with June Haver, Lon McCallister, Walter Brennan, Ann Revere, Natalie Wood, Henry Hull, Tom Tully.
Dangerous Years
P: Sol Wurtzel for Fox. D: Arthur Pierson. Sc: Arnold Belgard. C: Benjamin Kline, b/w. Rel: Dec. 1947: filmed after Scudda-Hoo! Scudda-Hay! but released first. MM as Eve; with William Halop, Ann E. Todd, Darryl Hickman, Jerome Cowan.
Ladies of the Chorus
P: Harry A. Romm for Columbia. D: Phil Karlson. Sc: Harry Sauber and Joseph Carol. C: Frank Redman, b/w. Rel: Oct. 1948. MM as Peggy Martin; with Adele Jergens, Rand Brooks, Nana Bryant.
Love Happy
P: Lester Cowan for United Artists (Mary Pickford). D: David Miller. Sc: Frank Tashlin and Mac Benoff, b/o a story by Harpo Marx. C: William C. Mellor, b/w. Rel: April 1950. MM as an unnamed client of Groucho Marx (as a private detective); with Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Ilona Massey, Eric Blore, Vera-Ellen, Raymond Burr.
A Ticket to Tomahawk
P: Robert Bassler for Fox. D: Richard Sale. Sc: Sale and Mary Loos. C: Harry Jackson. Rel: May 1950. MM as Clara; with Dan Dailey, Anne Baxter, Rory Calhoun, Walter Brennan, Marion Marshall.
The Asphalt Jungle
P: Arthur Hornblow, Jr., for MGM. D: John Huston. Sc: Huston and Ben Maddow, b/o a novel by W. R. Burnett. C: Harold Rosson. b/w. Rel: May 1950. MM as Angela Phinlay; with Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, Sam Jaffe, James Whitmore.
All About Eve
P: Darryl F. Zanuck for Fox. D/Sc: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. C: Milton Krasner, b/w. Rel: Oct. 1950. MM as Miss Caswell; with Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe, Thelma Ritter, Gregory Ratoff.
The Fireball
P: Bert Friedlob for Fox. D: Tay Garnett. Sc: Garnett and Horace McCoy. C: Lester White, b/w. Rel: Nov. 1950. MM as Polly; with Mickey Rooney, Pat O’Brien, Beverly Tyler.
Right Cross
P: Armand Deutsch for MGM. D: John Sturges. Sc: Charles Schnee. C: Norbert Brodine, b/w. Rel: Nov. 1950. MM as Dusky LeDoux; with Dick Powell, June Allyson, Ricardo Montalban, Lionel Barrymore.
Home Town Story (not, as usually listed, Hometown Story)
P, D, Sc: Arthur Pierson for MGM. C: Lucien Andriot, b/w. Rel: May 1951. MM as Iris; with Donald Crisp, Jeffrey Lynn, Marjorie Reynolds, Alan Hale, Jr.
As Young As You Feel
P: Lamar Trotti for Fox. D: Harmon Jones. Sc: Trotti, b/o a story by Paddy Chayefsky. C: Joe MacDonald, b/w. Rel: Aug. 1951. MM as Harriet; with Monty Woolley, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Constance Bennett, Albert Dekker.
Love Nest
P: Jules Buck for Fox. D: Joseph Newman. Sc: I. A. L. Diamond, b/o a novel by Scott Corbett. C: Lloyd Ahern, b/w. Rel: Oct. 1951. MM as Roberta Stevens; with June Haver, William Lundigan, Leatrice Joy, Jack Paar, Frank Fay.
Let’s Make It Legal
P: Robert Bassler for Fox. D: Richard Sale. Sc: F. Hugh Herbert and I. A. L. Diamond, b/o a story by Mortimer Braus. C: Lucien Ballard, b/w. Rel: Nov. 1951. MM as Joyce; with Claudette Colbert, Macdonald Carey, Robert Wagner, Zachary Scott, Barbara Bates.
Clash by Night
P: Harriet Parsons for Jerry Wald and Norman Krasna, RKO. D: Fritz Lang. Sc: Alfred Hayes, b/o the play by Clifford Odets. C: Nicholas Musuraca, b/w. Rel: June 1952. MM as Peggy; with Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Paul Douglas, Keith Andes.
We’re Not Married
P/Sc: Nunnally Johnson for Fox. D: Edmund Goulding. C: Leo Tover, b/w. Rel: July 1952. MM as Annabel Norris; with David Wayne and (in other segments of this anthology film) Ginger Rogers, Fred Allen, Louis Calhern, Zsa Zsa Gabor.
Don’t Bother to Knock
P: Julian Blaustein for Fox. D: Roy Baker. Sc: Daniel Taradash, b/o a novel by Charlotte Armstrong. C: Lucien Ballard, b/w. Rel: July 1952. MM as Nell Forbes; with Richard Widmark, Anne Bancroft, Donna Corcoran, Jim Backus, Lurene Tuttle.
Monkey Business
P: Sol Siegel for Fox. D: Howard Hawks. Sc: Ben Hecht, Charles Lederer and I. A. L. Diamond, b/o a story by Harry Segall. C: Milton Krasner, b/w. Rel: Sept. 1952. MM as Lois Laurel; with Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Hugh Marlowe.
O. Henry’s Full House
P: Andre Hakin for Fox. D: Henry Koster. Sc: Lamar Trotti, b/o stories by O. Henry. C: Lloyd Ahern, b/w. Rel: Oct. 1952. MM as a streetwalker, in a segment of this five-part anthology film; with Charles Laughton, David Wayne.
Niagara
P: Charles Brackett for Fox. D: Henry Hathaway. Sc: Brackett, Walter Reisch and Richard Breen. C: Joe MacDonald. Rel: Jan. 1953. MM as Rose Loomis; with Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Casey Adams, Richard Allan, Denis O’Dea, Don Wilson, Lurene Tuttle.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
P: Sol Siegel for Fox. D: Howard Hawks. Sc: Charles Lederer, b/o works by Anita Loos and Joseph Fields. C: Harry J. Wild. Rel: July 1953. MM as Lorelei Lee; with Jane Russell, Tommy Noonan, Charles Coburn, Elliot Reid, George Winslow, Norma Varden.
How To Marry a Millionaire
P: Nunnally Johnson for Fox. D: Jean Negulesco. Sc: Johnson, b/o plays by Zoë Akins and Dale Eunson and a book by Doris Lilly. C: Joe MacDonald. Rel: Nov. 1953. MM as Pola Debevoise; with Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall, William Powell, David Wayne, Rory Calhoun, Alex D’Arcy, Cameron Mitchell, Fred Clark.
River of No Return
P: Stanley Rubin for Fox. D: Otto Preminger. Sc: Frank Fenton, b/o a story by Louis Lantz. C: Joseph LaShelle. Rel: April 1954. MM as Kay Weston; with Robert Mitchum, Tommy Rettig, Rory Calhoun.
There’s No Business Like Show Business
P: Sol Siegel for Fox. D: Walter Lang. Sc: Phoebe and Henry Ephron, b/o a story by Lamar Trotti. C: Leon Shamroy. Rel: Dec. 1954. MM as Vicky; with Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey, Donald O’Connor, Mitzi Gaynor, Johnny Ray.
The Seven Year Itch
P: Charles K. Feldman and Billy Wilder for Fox. D: Billy Wilder. Sc: Wilder and George Axelrod, b/o Axelrod’s play. C: Milton Krasner. Rel: June 1955. MM as The Girl; with Tom Ewell, Evelyn Keyes, Victor Moore and Robert Strauss.
Bus Stop
P: Buddy Adler for Fox. D: Joshua Logan. Sc: George Axelrod, b/o the play by William Inge. C: Milton Krasner. Rel: Aug. 1956. MM as Cherie; with Don Murray, Arthur O’Connell, Eileen Heckart, Betty Field, Hope Lange.
The Prince and the Showgirl
P: Milton H. Greene and Laurence Olivier for Warner Bros. D: Laurence Olivier. Sc: Terence Rattigan, b/o his play. C: Jack Cardiff. Rel: June 1957. MM as Elsie Marina; with Laurence Olivier, Sybil Thorndike, Jeremy Spenser, Richard Wattis, Esmond Knight, Maxine Audley.
Some Like It Hot
P, D: Billy Wilder for Walter Mirisch/United Artists. Sc: Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond, b/o a story by R. Thoeren and M. Logan. C: Charles Lang, Jr., b/w. Rel: March 1959. MM as Sugar Kane; with Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, George Raft, Pat O’Brien, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee.
Let’s Make Love
P: Jerry Wald for Fox. D: George Cukor. Sc: Norman Krasner, Hal Kanter. C: Daniel L. Fapp. Rel: Sept. 1960. MM as Amanda Dell; with Yves Montand, Wilfrid Hyde White, Tony Randall, Frankie Vaughan, Madge Kennedy.
The Misfits
P: Frank E. Taylor for UA/Seven Arts. D: John Huston. Sc: Arthur Miller. C: Russell Metty, b/w. Rel: Feb. 1961. MM as Roslyn Tabor; with Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift, Eli Wallach, Thelma Ritter, Kevin McCarthy, Estelle Winwood, Ralph Roberts.
Incomplete: Something’s Got to Give
P: Henry Weinstein. D: George Cukor. Sc: Nunnally Johnson, Walter Bernstein, Hal Kanter et al., b/o the 1940 film My Favorite Wife. C: Franz Planer, Leo Tover, William Daniels. MM’s thirtieth film was canceled during production; extant footage shot from April to June 1962. MM as Ellen Arden; with Dean Martin, Cyd Charisse, Phil Silvers, Wally Cox. The production was formally shut down on June 12, 1962. Marilyn Monroe died on August 4, 1962. The film was rewritten, recast, reproduced and released in 1963 as Move Over Darling, with Doris Day and James Garner.