Description
This black and white capture features Marilyn Monroe greeting Queen Elizabeth II at the Royal Film Premiere of "The Battle of Riverplate", circa 1956. The Battle of the River Plate in the United States) is a 1956 British war film in Technicolor and VistaVision by the writer-director-producer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. The film stars John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Bernard Lee, and Peter Finch. It was distributed worldwide by Rank Film Distributors Ltd.Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms. Marilyn Monroe was an American actress. Famous for playing comedic "blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as an emblem of the era's sexual revolution. She was a top-billed actress for a decade, and her films grossed $200 million by the time of her death in 1962. Long after her death, Monroe remains a major icon of pop culture. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked her sixth on their list of the greatest female screen legends from the Golden Age of Hollywood. In 2009, The Guardian named her one of the best actors ever to have received an Academy Award nomination. This black-and-white capture features a portrait of a smiling Marilyn Monroe Size: 10" H x 8" W
