My Week With Marilyn

(Paperback, Film tie-in edition)

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Now a major film, starring Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne and Kenneth Branagh. This edition combines Colin Clarks acclaimed The Prince, the Showgirl and Me and My Week with Marilyn.
In 1956, fresh from Eton and Oxford, the 23-year-old Colin Clark (son of Lord Clark of Civilisation, brother of maverick Tory MP and diarist Alan) worked as a humble gofer on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl, the film that disastrously united Laurence Olivier with Marilyn Monroe.

Forty years on, his account of this was chosen as book of the year by Jilly Cooper, Joan Collins and others. This is the story of when Clark escorted a Monroe desperate to escape from the pressures of stardom. Her new husband Arthur Miller was away, and the coast was clear for Colin to introduce her to the pleasures of British life. How he ended up sharing her bed is a tale too rich to summarise!

Clarks extraordinary experiences on and off set have now been turned into a major film starring Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne, Judi Dench, Emma Watson, Kenneth Branagh and Dominic Cooper, due for release in November 2011.

Includes an exclusive introduction from Simon Curtis, director of My Week with Marilyn.

Includes an exclusive interview with screenplay writer, Adrian Hodges.

Contains exclusive images of the cast of My Week with Marilyn on set.

Reviews

My favourite book of the year Joan Collins

This book is sheer delightwonderfully funnyby the end of this short but richly packed chronicle, Colin Clark seems like an old friendhe is blessed with a sharp eye and an even sharper pen Sunday Telegraph

The marvellous traumas and stampings of feet of the stars are recorded through the eyes of a star struck youngster whose bedside prose is so sharp and polished The Times

The immediacy and charm of Clarks recollections are possibly more illuminating than the millions of words and pictures pumped out to expose or dish the dirt on the Monroe legend Helen Osborne, Sunday Times

Delightful: so observant and pleasing, and such enjoyable asides Alan Clark (letter to Colin Clark)

Beguiling, touching and compassionate Melanie McGrath, Evening Standard

An extraordinary story Frank Johnson, Spectator

Its the funniest account of life in the booby-hatch thats a film studio known to meIts not that I await [his next] diaries eagerly, but Im planning to sneak into Clarks house and read them right this minute Spectator

Revealing, moving and deliciously funny Daily Telegraph

Author Bio

Colin Clark is the younger brother of the famous diarist Alan Clark and younger son of Kenneth (Lord Clark of Civilisation). His first book, The Prince, The Showgirl and Me, was published to huge critical acclaim in September 1995. Born in 1932, Colin Clark was educated at Eton and Oxford. After The Prince and the Showgirl, he became personal assistant to Laurence Olivier before moving to Granada Television. Subsequently he produced and directed over 100 arts documentary films in America and Britain.