Marilyn Monroe Filmography and the list of films in which Marilyn Monroe acted

1948 Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (Girlfriend)

Young man acquires a pair of mules and must work for the previous owner to pay them off. In the process, he falls in love with the farmer’s daughter. Scudda hoo, scudda hay refers to commands used in training mules.

Marilyn can be seen in a short scene paddling a canoe.
Producer: Walter Morosco
Director: F. Hugh Herbert
Screenplay: F. Hugh Herbert
(based on the novel by George Agnew Chamberlain)

Starring: June Haver, Anne Revere, NatalieWood
Marilyn’s role was uncredited

Dangerous Years (Evie) 20th Century-Fox 1948

Producer: Sol M. Wurtzel
Director: Arthur Pierson
Screenplay: Arnold Belgard
Starring: William Halop, Anne E. Todd, Marilyn Monroe

A member of a youth gang kills a school teacher and is tried in court. The D.A. pushes for a life sentence, unaware the boy is his long, lost son

1949 Ladies Of The Chorus (Peggy Martin) Columbia Pictures
Producer: Harry A. Romm
Director: Phil Karlson
Screenplay: Joseph Carole and Harry Sauber
Starring: Adele Jergens, Rand Brooks, Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn plays a showgirl that falls in love with a rich, young man against the wishes of her mother.

1950 At Ticket To Tomahawk (Clara)
Producer: Robert Bassler
Director: Richard Sale
Screenplay: Mary Loos and Richard Sale
Starring: Dan Dailey, Anne Baxter, Rory Calhoun, Walter Brennan, Marilyn Monroe

Travelling medicine showman comes to the rescue of a railroad man’s daughter when a stagecoach rep tries to prevent a new train service in to Colorado. Marilyn plays one of the showman’s chorus girls.

Right Cross (Dusky Ledue)

Producer: Armand Deutsch
Director: John Sturgess
Screenplay: Charles Schnee
Starring: June Allyson, Dick Powell, Ricardo Montalban, Lionel Barrymore
Marilyn’s role was uncredited

Cynical sportswriter is in love with boxing manager’s daughter, who fills in for her ailing father and grooms his prizefighter for a championship bout. Writer gets left out when she falls for the fighter. Marilyn is a dinner companion of the sportswriter, played by Dick Powel

The Fireball (Polly)
Producer: Bert E. Friedlob
Director: Tay Garnett
Screenplay: Horace McCoy and Tay Garnett
Starring: Mickey Rooney, Pat O’Brien, Beverly Tyler, Marilyn Monroe

Priest supports and encourages a young roller skating star and helps him back to reality after he contracts polio. Marilyn is cast as a casual date of the roller skating star, played by Mickey Rooney

Love Happy (Grunion’s Client)

Producer: Lester Cowan
Director: David Miller
Screenplay: Frank Tashlin and Mac Benoff
(based on a story by Harpo Marx)
Starring: Groucho, Harpo and Chico Marx, Vera-Ellen, Raymond Burr, Marilyn Monroe

An acting troupe’s mascot stumbles upon some stolen diamonds and becomes the target of Madam Egilichi and her henchmen. Marilyn plays a client of private eye Sam Grunion (Groucho Marx). This was the Marx Brothers’ final feature together.

The Asphalt Jungle (Angela Phinlay)

Producer: Arthur Hornblower, Jr.
Director: John Huston
Screenplay: Ben Maddow and John Huston (based on the novel by W.R. Burnett)
Starring: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, James Whitmore, Marilyn Monroe

Recently paroled criminal plans a jewelry heist as his last big hit, with help from his cronies. Considered to be one of the great crime dramas of all time.  Marilyn plays the mistress of a crooked attorney who is in on the heist.

All About Eve (Claudia Caswell)

Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Screenplay: Joseph L. Mankiewicz (based on the story “The Wisdom Of Eve” by Mary Orr)
Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Marilyn Monroe

An aspiring actress connivingly uses an aging Broadway star to rise to the top of the theatre. Nominated for a record 14 Oscars and a winner of 6, including Best Picture, Director and Screenplay for 1950. Marilyn plays another aspiring actress

1951 Love Nest (Roberta Stevens)

Producer: Jules Buck
Director: Joseph M. Newman
Screenplay: I.A.L. Diamond
Starring: June Haver, William Lundigan, Jack Parr, Marilyn Monroe

An aspiring writer and his wife purchase and maintain an apartment building. A con artist targets one of their tenants and is arrested but confides in the landlord and the story launches his writing career.

Let’s Make It Legal (Joyce Mannering)

Producer: Robert Bassler
Director: Richard Sale
Screenplay: F. Hugh Herbert and I.A.L. Diamond (based on a story by Mortimer Braus)
Starring: Claudette Colbert, MacDonald Carey, Zachary Scott, Robert Wagner, Marilyn Monroe

Beautiful grandmother must choose between irresponsible, gambling husband and ex-flame turned millionaire who returns to town.

Hometown Story (Iris Martin)

Producer: Arthur Pierson
Director: Arthur Pierson
Screenplay: Arthur Pierson
Starring: Jeffrey Lynn, Donald Crisp, Marjorie Reynolds, Alan Hale, Jr., Marilyn Monroe As Young As You Feel (Harriet)

Left wing journalist returns to his hometown and rallies against big business. His beliefs in the evils of a capitalist society is forever altered after his baby sister, trapped in a cave-in, is rescued by locally produced technology.

1952 O. Henry’s Full House (Streetwalker)
Producer: Andre Hakim

Directors: Henry Hathaway, Henry Koster, Henry King, Howard Hawks, Jean Negulesco

Screenplays: Lamar Trotti, Richard Breen, Ben Roberts, Ivan Goff, Walter Bullock, Nunnally Johnson

Starring: Jeanne Crain, Farley Granger, Anne Baxter, Jean Peters, Richard Widmark, Charles Laughton, David Wayne, Marilyn Monroe

An anthology of five short stories by O. Henry. Marilyn plays a streetwalker in the episode “The Cop and the Anthem”, directed by Henry Koster and starring Charles Laughton and David Wayne. A hobo schemes to trick police into arresting him and throwing him in jail so he can find food and shelter but his plan goes awry

Monkey Business (Lois Laurel)

Producer: Sol C. Siegel

Director: Howard Hawks

Screenplay: Ben Hecht, Charles Lederer and I.A.L. Diamond (based on a story by Harry Segall)

Starring: Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe

Absent-minded professor looking for a “fountain of youth” is aided by a lab monkey who somehow comes up with the right formula. The professor becomes his own guinee pig as he unknowingly drinks the lab’s tainted water supply. Marilyn is the professor’s secretary, played by Cary Grant.

Clash By Night (Peggy)

Producer: Harriet Parsons

Director: Fritz Lang

Screenplay: Alfred Hayes and David Dortort (based on the play by Clifford Odets)

Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan, Keith Andes, Marilyn Monroe

Woman in loveless marriage to fisherman contemplates leaving her husband for a movie projectionist. Marilyn plays a young, naive girl yearning for worldly adventures

We’re Not Married (Anabel Norris)
Producer: Nunnally Johnson

Director: Edmund Goulding

Screenplay: Nunnally Johnson and Dwight Taylor (based on a story by Gina Kaus and Jay Dratler)

Starring: Ginger Rogers, Fred Allen, Victor Moore, Marilyn Monroe, David Wayne, Eve Arden

Don’t Bother To Knock (Nell Forbes)

Producer: Julian Blaustein

Director: Roy Ward Baker

Screenplay: Daniel Taradash
(based on a novel by Charlotte Armstrong)

Starring: Richard Widmark, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Bancroft, Jim Backus

1953 Niagara (Rose Loomis)
Producer: Charles Brackett

Director: Henry Hathaway

Screenplay: Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch, and Richard Breen

Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotton, Jean Peters, Casey Adams

Honeymooners meet another couple at Niagara Falls and discover the wife, Rose Loomis (played by Marilyn) has plans to murder her husband for another man. The tables are turned when he survives and returns to seek revenge.
This was Marilyn’s breakthrough movie.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Lorelei Lee)

Producer: Sol C. Siegel

Director: Howard Hawks

Screenplay: Charles Lederer (based on the play by Anita Loos and Joseph Fields)
Starring: Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, Tommy Noonan

Lorelei Lee (Marilyn) and Dorothy Shaw (Jane Russell) embark on a boat trip to Paris where Lorelei plans to marry millionaire Gus Edmonds. Gus’ father hires Malone, a private detective, to follow Lorelei and expose her for the gold digger that he believes she is. In the process, Malone falls for Dorothy. The movie holds true to the 1949 Broadway musical with Marilyn’s immortal rendition of “Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend”.

How To Marry A Millionaire (Pola Debevoise)

Producer: Nunnally Johnson

Director: Jean Negulesco

Screenplay: Nunnally Johnson (based on the plays “The Greeks Had A Name For It” by Zoe Akins and “Loco” by Dale Eunson and Katherine Albert)

Starring: Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, David Wayne, Rory Calhoun, Cameron Mitchell,
William Powell

Three models (Grable, Monroe and Bacall) pose as women of wealth in an attempt to attract rich husbands but ultimately follow their hearts instead of money.

1954 There’s No Business Like Show Business (Vicky)

Producer: Sol C. Siegel

Director: Walter Lang

Screenplay: Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron (based on a story by Lamar Trotti)
Starring: Ethel Merman, Donald O’Connor, Marilyn Monroe, Dan Dailey, Mitzi Gaynor, Johnny Ray

The story follows the lives of five members of a show biz family over twenty years. Marilyn plays Vicky, an aspiring showgirl who is wooed by Donald O’Connor. Songs by Irving Berlin. Nominated for six Oscars including best Original Screenplay.

River Of No Return (Kay Weston)
Producer: Stanley Rubin

Director: Otto Preminger

Screenplay: Frank Fenton (based on a story by Louis Lantz)

Farmer is beaten and robbed of his horse by a gambler who in the process deserts his wife. With his son and the gambler’s wife in tow, he sets off to seek revenge. Filmed on location in the Canadian Rockies. Marilyn plays Kay Weston, a dance hall girl and the wife of gambler Rory Calhoun.

1955 The Seven Year Itch (The Girl)
Producers: Billy Wilder
and Charles K. Feldman

Director: Billy Wilder

Screenplay: Billy Wilder and George Axelrod (based on the play by George Axelrod)

Manhatten man sends his wife and son off for the summer while he stays behind to toil in the big city. His fantasies of life with other beautiful women become reality when he meets “The Girl” from upstairs, played by Marilyn Monroe. He struggles with the choice of seducing his naive, new neighbour or remaining true to his wife. Best known for Marilyn’s iconic skirt blowing scene.

1956 Bus Stop (Cherie)
Producer: Buddy Adler

Director: Joshua Logan

Screenplay: George Axelrod (based on the play by William Inge)

Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O’Connell, Betty Field, Eileen Heckart, Hope Lange

Third rate night club singer is chosen by naive but headstrong rodeo champ to be his wife. He soon realizes roping cattle and women are two different things. First movie roles for both Don Murray and Hope Lange, who later became husband and wife

1957 The Prince And The Showgirl (Elsie Marina)

Producer: Laurence Olivier

Director: Laurence Olivier

Screenplay: Terence Rattigan

Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Laurence Olivier, Sybil Thorndyke, Richard Wattis, Jeremy Spenser

American chorus girl catches the eye of the Prince Regent of Carpathia but she has reservations about him. Eventually, she falls for the Prince and thwarts a plan to overthrow the Carpathian throne.

1959 Some Like It Hot (Sugar Kane)

Producer: Billy Wilder

Director: Billy Wilder

Screenplay: Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond

Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, Pat O’Brien, Joe E. Brown

Two musicians in 1929 Chicago witness a gangland massacre and pose as female musicians to elude the mob. Both fall for Sugar Kane, the lead singer of Sweet Sue’s All Girl Orchestra but must resist male temptation or risk their true genders being discovered. Nominated for 8 Oscars, including Best Actor (Jack Lemmon) and Best Screenplay. Voted by the American Film Institute as their #1 comedy of all time.

1960 Let’s Make Love (Amanda Dell)

Producer: Jerry Wald

Director: George Cukor

Screenplay: Norman Krasna and Hal Kanter

Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Yves Montand, Tony Randall, Wilfred Hyde-White

Rich playboy auditions for musical production about his life and gets the part while concealing his true identity. Marilyn plays a poor, aspiring actress who falls for the billionaire, unaware of his real wealth.

1962 Something’s Got To Give (Ellen Arden) (uncompleted)?

Producer: Henry Weinstein

Director: George Cukor

Screenplay: Arnold Schulman, Nunnally Johnson and Walter Bernstein (based on the film “My Favourite Wife”
with Cary Grant and Irene Dunn)

Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Dean Martin, Cyd Charisse, Wally Cox, Phil Silvers

Married woman (Monroe) stranded on desert island for five years returns to civilization only to find her husband (Martin) has remarried. Uncompleted due to Marilyn’s death. Nude swimming scene became the talk of the world.

Re-titled “Move Over, Darling” and re-shot in 1963 with Doris Day and James Garner.

1961 The Misfits (Roslyn Taber)

Producer: Frank E. Taylor

Director: John Huston

Screenplay: Arthur Miller

Starring: Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Eli Wallach, Thelma Ritter

Clark Gable plays Gay Langland, an aging cowhand living in Nevada along with his two comrades (Wallach and Clift). The three come up with a plan to coral misfit mustangs and sell them for dog food but get resistance from Roslyn Taber, Gay’s ex-stripper and recently divorced girlfriend.Written specifically for Marilyn by her husband Arthur Miller. This was the last film for both Gable and Monroe.