The Sex Symbol
5.7
1974
1 hr 14 min
Drama
, TV Movie
A thinly-disguised version of the life of Marilyn Monroe, detailing her ups and downs in life and how her erratic behavior contributed to her deteriorating career.
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- Cast：
- Connie Stevens , Shelley Winters , Jack Carter , William Castle , Don Murray , James Olson , Nehemiah Persoff
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Reviews
This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.
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At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
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This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
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Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
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