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Mysteries in the Archives: 1954 Marilyn Monroe in Korea
200826 min 16 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Serge Viallet
Production: Florence Fanelli
Co-produced by ARTE France and Institut national de l'audiovisuel with the participation of Centre National de la Cinématographie, in association with YLE Teema - Ritva Leino and RTSI-Televisione Svizzera, and with the participation of the National Film Board of Canada.
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Two weeks after their wedding in San Francisco, Marilyn Monroe and baseball icon Joe DiMaggio set off for Japan. On their honeymoon? Pre-season training for Japanese baseball teams begins in January. DiMaggio’s arrival in Tokyo with his new bride impassions both baseball and movie fans.
After two weeks, Marilyn leaves for Korea to sing for 100,000 GIs still stationed along the border between the communist North and capitalist South. During her four-day singing tour, moving from camp to camp by helicopter, she’s filmed by military cameramen. Did she really interrupt her honeymoon? Why sing “Do it Again” and “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend” in the Army and Marine camps? And what does the footage shot during the tour reveal about Hollywood’s latest mega-star?
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- History > Historical PerpectivesWorld History
Credits
- idea
- Serge Viallet
- Cédric Lépée
- series director
- Serge Viallet
- director
- Serge Viallet
- editor
- Vanessa Bozza
- Alexandre Auque
- graphic design
- Stéphanie Mée
- historical research
- Cedric Gruat
- musical illustration
- Niels Poux
- image masking
- Alexandre Auque
- dressing conception
- Alexandre Auque
- credit sequence design
- Philippe Truffault
- credit sequence production
- Philippe Truffault
- credit sequence editor
- François Labat
- colour correction
- Rémi Berge
- translator
- Dana Burns Westberg
- narrator
- Dana Burns Westberg
- documentary research
- Serge Viallet
- Michael Dolan
- Marie Bessi
- sound design
- Laurent Thomas
- Jean-François Gasnier
- mix
- Laurent Thomas
- Jean-François Gasnier
- post-production manager
- Rita Lourdemarianadin
- post-production technician
- Daniel Ricard
- broadcast mastering
- Vincent Legrain
- image restoration
- Emmanuel Laroche
- video transfer
- Eric Queille
- Marc Grandhomme
- production manager
- Thierry Ippolito
- production assistant
- Vincent Encontre
- Armelle Jayet
- administrator
- Françoise Tsitsichvili
- Yasmine Boucherat
- commissioning editor
- Elisabeth Hulten
- producer
- Florence Fanelli