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Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, model, and singer. Famous for playing comedic “blonde bombshell” characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s and was emblematic of the era’s changing attitudes towards sexuality.
10. THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (1950)
John Huston’s noir classic provided Monroe with her big breakout role, which, coupled with “All About Eve” that same year, turned her into a bonafide movie star. “The Asphalt Jungle” centers on an aging criminal (Sam Jaffe) who decides to pull off one more heist with the help of a seedy lawyer (Louis Calhern) and three other felons (Sterling Hayden, James Whitmore, Anthony Caruso).
9. DON’T BOTHER TO KNOCK (1952)
“Don’t Bother to Knock” would be yet another largely forgotten noir cheapie were it not for Monroe’s electrifying performance as a deeply disturbed woman given the absolute worst job imaginable. She plays Nell Forbes, a suicidal babysitter recently released from a mental institution.
8. NIAGARA (1953)
This pitch-black film noir helped put Monroe on the map, although it’s antithetical to everything she’d become famous for thereafter. It casts her as a dissatisfied housewife vacationing with her husband, a traumatized war veteran (Joseph Cotten), in Niagara Falls.
7. ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)
With “All About Eve” and “The Asphalt Jungle” earlier that same year, Marilyn Monroe gained the notice of movie audiences everywhere. Although she has only a brief role in Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s Oscar-winning diva fest, you can’t take your eyes off of her, and she almost manages to steal the show from Bette Davis (and that’s saying something).
6. HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE (1953)
Need tips on how to land a sugar daddy? Look no further than Jean Negulesco’s splashy romantic comedy about three gold diggers (Monroe, Lauren Bacall, and Betty Grable) looking for their perfect millionaire match. Yet wouldn’t you know it, they actually find true love along the way.
5. BUS STOP (1956)
After years of musicals and light comedies, Monroe proved herself a capable dramatic actress with this adaptation of William Inge’s Broadway play. In a lot of ways, her performance is better than the film itself, which casts her as a saloon singer who catches the eye of a naive rodeo performer (Don Murray). He pursues her relentlessly, trying to force her to marry him and live on his ranch in Montana
4. GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (1953)
There’s perhaps no more tantalizing duo than Monroe and Jane Russell, paired together in Howard Hawks’s delightful adaptation of Anita Loos’s Broadway classic. “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” centers on two showgirls who set sail for Paris, where Monroe is scheduled to marry a young millionaire (Tommy Noonan).
3. THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH (1955)
Billy Wilder’s “The Seven Year Itch” might not be a great movie, but it did provide Monroe with the image that would come to define her: as a subway passes underground, the gust from the sidewalk gate blows her white dress upward, creating an iconic bombshell sex symbol for the ages.
2. THE MISFITS (1961)
John Huston’s “The Misfits” occupies a sad place in cinema history due to the fate of its three stars: Clark Gable died before it’s release, Monroe shortly thereafter, while Montgomery Clift would make only three more movies before his own untimely demise in 1966.
1. SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959)
Monroe was never more tantalizing than she was in “Some Like It Hot,” which provided her with the perfect role for her unique charm and charisma. The film has a premise of almost Olympian silliness that’s executed with wit, sex, and style by Billy Wilder. Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis star as Chicago musicians who have to go on the run after witnessing a mob hit. Desperate to not draw attention to themselves, they decide to don dresses and join an all-women’s band, led by the alluring Sugar Kane (Monroe).
