WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Wael Katkhuda Among all of Marilyn's films this is the best performance and although she is best remembered today by here brilliant performance as sugar cane in ( Some like it hot 1959) she is doing much better here, she gives us a very simple performance which is too hard to play because u have to be both simple and very real and that is the hardest style of acting. This was my the first film i saw for MM back to 2008 and it attracted me from the start till the end. The film is based on a play called ( The Sleeping Prince ) starring Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh and i think that it was back to 1953 anyway Marilyn bought the rights and played the part of Vivien. The production of the film was very difficult and there was a lot of tension between Sir Laurance and Marilyn because first they were from two different schools and second she was regularly failed to show up in the set and when does she never arrived on time not to mention the endless retakes , to know more a bout the production on this film you should see a documentary film called -The prince and the showgirl and me- which was made in which was made buy Colin Clark ( you can see it in YouTube) , and if u don't like documentary films u can watch a movie made in 2011 starring Michelle William called ( My Week with Marilyn). At the end yes Marilyn was difficult to work with but she delivered one of here best performance on screen and she was nominated for Best Foreign Actress in BAFTA Awards .

gkeith_1 A delightful confection. You know that I like singing and dancing. Marilyn does a delightful dance here, in the Regent's digs at the embassy. She sings, too. Is that her voice? I don't know. I hope so. Marilyn needed a light abdominal girdle, however. All in all, the white dress was beautiful -- but did she wear it for three days straight? Ugh.Still, she is the star. More people remember her than remember Olivier or Dame Sybil, sad to say. Marilyn is a one-name star very popular to this day, 2014. I feel, as a trained actress, that "you have to be smart to play dumb." Marilyn was the epitome of Method-smart.Olivier was a stuck-up snob. His character was that, plus one reads that as an actor opposite Marilyn plus being the director and producer Olivier is still a stuck-up snob. I remember his creepy persona in "Marathon Man," and he could be a frightening persona.The young king was a delight. Dame Sybil was awesome. The British aide was comical, yet proper when necessary. The violinist/barber was hilarious.I tried to watch this once, and thought it slow. I tried to watch it again, and actually watched the whole thing. As a history graduate, I kept noticing similarities to real-life early 20th century history. 1911 was the eve of the Titanic disaster. 1914 would bring an assassination that set off World War One (The Great War). Royal houses would crumble. Some nations would disappear forever.The Regent called Americans "dumb" or something like that. Marilyn (Elsie Marina) got incensed. She was proud to be American. She even tried to explain general elections to Olivier/Regent. You go, Marilyn. That Elsie understood the German language was a plus. When the young king spoke German on the telephone, Miss Marina figured it all out.Breathless Marilyn. Overtaking/overshadowing Olivier. Dame Sybil really loved Miss Marina, and most of the time I had no trouble understanding the speech of Dame Sybil. She came off as a little dotty, but like Marilyn she knew every word and phrase she was speaking. Alas! 10/10

lasttimeisaw When the behind-the-scene anecdotes are appreciably more stimulating than the film itself, it is not a good sign, so I may address MY WEEK WITH MARILYN (2011, 6/10) should be a better choice (for contemporary audiences), barring suckers for Ms. Monroe or Sir Olivier. How come Olivier was swept off his feet by Monroe during the shooting of this film? The ignominious scandal cast a fissure on his marriage with Vivien Leigh, which ultimately ended in 1961 and to a great extent prompted Leigh's untimely demise at the age of 54 in 1967, so the real life is far crueler than this saccharine period-romance between a regent prince from a fictitious country Carpathia and an US showgirl from the Coconut Girl Club, all happens in London during his visit for the coronation of the new British King in 1911. It is a project tailor-made for Ms. Monroe and she was in her pinnacle at then, while most certainly Sir Laurence Olivier came on board as the leading man to reprise his role from the original play (Leigh was brushed aside due to her age, so Monroe was cast instead, it was is really a man man man's world), however it is rather an odd choice for him to monopolize the director chair since it is absolutely not his wheelhouse, a romantic comedy must be a tint two-bit for his Shakespearean standard. Maybe his real intent was never on the film but the red-hot sexpot, Marilyn Monroe.Regarding the personal life, it was not a placid phase for Marilyn either (check MY WEEK WITH MARILYN for a deep look), but she definitely goes to all lengths to invigorate her character, Elsie, she is the breezy messenger, the emblem of foolproof love, with her buxom curves and half-witted ingénue persona, one might not say she is the one-of-a-kind type of genius, but certainly she is the fortuitous making of her era, an icon can not be emulated in our times. Sir Olivier, wallows in his customary tactics, being deadpan serious in a condescending form, and genteelly articulating the banal dialog as if he means it, we can endure the mincing and posturing of Monroe, but for him, it totally jars with the overall tonality and the chemistry between these two people with irreconcilable disparities never scintillates on the screen, the old- hat way of acting does double up the running-time. Anyway, there is still the bright side, Sybil Thorndike as the Queen Dowager, the mother-in-law of the Regent, controls a timely comic effort whenever she is released to preside the scenes, and those moments are golden! A fresh-faced Jeremy Spenser (as King Nicolas, the son of the Regent) is strikingly dashing in the uniform, he is the only surviving cast of the film with us now. After all its regal extravaganza, garish costumes and ornaments, the preposterous post- production and erratic editing hiccups stick out ridiculously, some chuckling could be wrung from the picture in any case.

serebry92 From Terence Rattigan's " The sleeping prince" . Came to London in 1911 ti preside to the in coronation of George V , the archduke of Carpathia wants to be escort for the night , he finds an American showgirl. Olivier's acting is flawless and Monroe strikes. Question : which of the two stars has take advantage on the other? If " The prince and the showgirl" is already watchable today , it's because of Marilyn Monroe , because at one time of the story that little split comes out as if Olivier , from that moment was too busy to play an aristocratic better than a true one. If he had act like he had in front of him a similar beauty , there was nothing else to do than turn the guard down and give up: Marilyn enlightened up the scene , just with her being an alive presence , she was with her life to dissolve the cold of the perfection of his partner.