Marilynspirations Double Bill

This Claudette Colbert and Jean Harlow double bill celebrates the stars that influenced Marilyn Monroe.

Hold Your Man

  • Director

    Sam Wood

  • With

    Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Stuart Erwin, Dorothy Burgess

  • USA 1933. 87min

  • 35mm

 

Cleopatra

  • Director

    Cecil B. DeMille

  • With

    Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Henry Wilcoxon, Joseph Schildkraut

  • USA 1934. 99min

  • Digital 4K

  • Certificate

    PG

As a child, cinema provided Monroe with much needed escapism, but it also nurtured those big dreams for her to become one of the screen’s biggest stars. Monroe once described watching Cleopatra with Claudette Colbert ‘over and over’, and Jean Harlow as ‘my favourite’. We invite you to view two classics through the eyes of a young Monroe and imagine how the films might have transported her, even shaping her future stardom. In Hold Your Man, a woman finds trouble when she falls in love with small-time conman. While in DeMille’s lavish blockbuster, the Queen of Egypt struggles to maintain her hold on her kingdom as she becomes entangled with Roman lovers.

Total running time 206min (total runtime includes a 20min interval between films).

Tickets £17, concessions £14 (Members pay £2.50 less).

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