We’re celebrating the talent of the legendary and magnetic Marilyn Monroe, born exactly a hundred years ago, on June 1, 1926, with three films that highlight major milestones in her career. Henry Hathaway's Niagara solidified her status as a star and her aura as a femme fatale; Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot marked the height of her comedic success; and John Huston's The Misfits offered her a final role that reflected her melancholy and revealed the full depth of her dramatic range—a range she wished she had more opportunities to explore.
On vacation at Niagara Falls, the relationship between the charming Rose and her jealous husband, George, is on the rocks. Rose has a lover and would love to get rid of her husband, but that’s easier said than done…
Henry Hathaway
Henry Hathaway was an American film director and producer, whose career spanned from the 1930s through the 1970s. He was best known as a director of Western, adventure, and noir films, especially starring John Wayne, Gary Cooper, Randolph Scott, and Gregory Peck. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935), starring Cooper. According to the BFI, Hathaway "epitomised what’s known as the ‘journeyman’ director, amassing a considerable body of work across five decades without leaving an easily identifiable stylistic or thematic through-line between pictures."
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