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Newly repackaged box set of 5 Marilyn classics plus a documentary, in celebration of her 80th birthday. The highlights are two of her greatest comedies. She's the bubbly gold digger dance partner to wry, man-hungry Jane Russell in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), Howard Hawks' on buddy film machismo. It’s a delightful, hilarious farce with great musical numbers, but for all the sexual humor, these two little girls from Little Rock are thoroughly loyal to each other and always in charge. In Billy Wilder's screen version of George Axelrod’s once risqué play The Seven Year Itch (1955), she's the sex bomb upstairs to temporary bachelor Tom Ewell when his family leaves the city for the summer. Wilder has fun measuring the distance between the sex fantasies and sobering realities of Axelrod’s would-be philandering married man. She's a darker, more devious femme fatale in Niagara (1953), a saloon singer who snubs her gambler fiancé to join widowed father Robert Mitchum on a treacherous trip downriver in River of No Return (1954), and a Broadway ingénue courted by millionaire (Yves Montand) in Let's Make Love. Also features the made-for-TV documentary Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days (2001), which profiles the shooting of her final unfinished movie Something’s Got To Give.