Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe

First image shot of actress Michelle Willimas as iconic actress and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe. Film is being directed by Simon Curtis ( David Copperfield ) and also starring Kenneth Branagh as Laurence Olivier, Doughray Scott as Arthur Miller, Julia Ormand as Vivian Leigh, Judi Dench as Dame Sybil Thorndike, Dominic Cooper as Milton Greene.
The film is based on the Colin Clark novel My Week With Marilyn, and tells of forty years ago, Colin Clark, the son of art historian Kenneth Clark, accepted a job as a "gofer" on the set of Laurence Olivier's film The Prince and the Showgirl, which was to star Olivier and Marilyn Monroe. By day, Clark satisfied the every whim of director Olivier and other crew members; by night, he chronicled the day's events in his diary, compiling a vivid and witty introduction to the craft and business of filmmaking. Now he is publishing the diary virtually intact. It's a wickedly entertaining little book, a delicious backstage comedy of the clash of two worlds, as well as a candid time capsule of a heedless young Englishman's sexual progress, circa 1956. At center stage are the classically trained Olivier, leading a crew of expert British film professionals, and a sad and volatile Monroe, surrounded by manipulative and sycophantic hangers-on. Clark's thumbnail judgments of the principals are shrewd, sometimes harsh; playwright Arthur Miller, who married the actress just before the film began production, comes across as particularly unpleasant. Full of the sort of stories and observations film insiders tell only each other (Monroe upon Clark's first scrutiny: "She looked absolutely frightful.... Nasty complexion, a lot of facial hair, shapeless figure and, when the glasses came off, a very vague look in her eye")