‘I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity' - Marilyn Monroe
Arguably the most iconic star of all time, Monroe is often seen as a tragic figure, or frozen in time as a sex symbol - but these notions are reductive. She was a dynamic and intuitive actor and ambitious creative, who revolutionised the promotion machine, challenged the studio system by striking to protest poor-quality scripts, and became the first woman since the silent era to set up her own production company.
100 years since the birth of Norma Jeane, join us over June and July to celebrate the cinema of Marilyn Monroe, and the craft and charisma of a big screen legend.