arsportsltd Hard to understand when seeing what was completed of Somethings Got To Give why 20th Century Fox fired Marilyn Monroe from this Movie; Marilyn is Magnficent. Looking better than she had in years and in fantastic shape, -witness the nude pool scene, daring for its day, Marilyn Monroe was giving one of her best performances! I guess that is why 20th after offering the role to Kim Novak who refused out of respect to Monroe and then to Doris Day and Shirley MacLaine both of whom refused the part, 20th finally cast Lee Remick who accepted ( only to have Dean Martin refuse Lee Remick as a co star) did 20th do the inevitable and re hire Ms. Monroe, and at 5 times her initial salary!When Marilyn Monroe was fired it was reported -likely leaked by 20th- that MM was acting as if in a daze but from the scenes of film I have seen MM was anything but! Looking beautiful and acting in a clear concise manner, I saw the magic of George Cukor's direction. This movie would have been a big big hit for 20th and Marilyn Monroe. Dean Martin was a great leading Man and Cyd Charrisse sexy and wonderful as Dean's second "wife". Wally Cox, John McGiver were great too!There were stars and then there were superstars and then there was Marilyn Monroe! Forever FantasticDavid Barra Los Angeles

ClassicSiren Considering everything that was happening in Marilyn's life, the footage they have restored and put together is for me her best performance, she wasn't made to speak in a wispery voice that she usually did, but in her own naturally soft and sweet voice. She plays a grown up women with children, not a stupid blonde. Her weight is at her lowest in this DVD and she looks absolutely smashing and elegant. I am very sad that they weren't able to complete the film for it would definitely have been a success. And just for the record Marilyn was supposed to film her nude scene in a skin coloured bikini but she took it off and filmed it nude.As a conclusion, its a very interesting and touching DVD if you want to know the truth about the legend's final days from those who knew her.

oliverpenn I taped the "finished" product of "Something's Gotta Give" when it appeared on AMC. Being a fan of Marilyn Monroe's, I expected to like what I saw. The documentary showed Marilyn just as she has been described by many of her co-stars: confused, ill-prepared and generally "lost." By the time that Tony Curtis finished "Some Like It Hot," he almost hated Marilyn. Movie stars like Curtis do NOT like waiting around all day for their co-star to show up! And, when they show up, not ready to perform.Tony Randall said of Monroe: "if you were there watching her film a scene, you'd say, 'she'll never get by'...but the next day, you look at the rushes and MAGIC ON THE SCREEN." He felt, basically, that Monroe had "no talent." That the camera transformed her. Tom Ewell ("Seven Year Itch") said, "what you see on the screen with Marilyn, usually took up to 90 takes per scene. She couldn't remember her lines." More than any of her movies, I think that "Something's...Give" would have been awful, worse than Doris Day's overblown version, which was ill-directed. Dean Martin looked totally out of it, while Cyd Charisse did quite a credible job, much better than Polly Bergen, who was much too "acty" and over the top.Day, a much more skilled actress than Monroe, had her moments in "Move Over Darling," but the script was bad, and they should have used Day's own hair instead of those crazy wigs.Poor Marilyn's brain was not up to making ANY film at the time of SGTG. I must admit that she was much better when she kept her mouth shut (when she first saw her children on her return), but her scenes with Dean were God awful. The best thing she did was take a nude swim.Just compare Day's scene with Don Knotts and Monroe's with Wally Cox in the department store scene. Day and night. Day/Knotts was certainly better than the grade school calibre acting of Monroe/Cox.To be fair to everyone. I didn't like "My Favorite Wife," "Something's Gotta Give" or "Move Over Darling." Was there a "Thelma Ritter" in "Something's"?

mosoul Unlike others reviewing this film I don't see Marilyn looking "out of it". As a matter of fact I think she is radiant and in better (physical) shape than her prior 3 films. Especially better than "Let's Make Love" where she is pushing the line between voluptuous and fat. That performance, which was also directed by George Cukor, was known to have been extremely sloppy and sporadic ultimately requiring the editors to piece takes together from short segments. In this incomplete film she seems to have made a concerted effort to not only lose weight, but to tone up as she was known to do in her younger days (living on Catalina Island while married to Jim Daugherty) where people were surprised to see a girl doing exercises and lifting small weights. To be realistic Marilyn's magic screen presence took a large amount of skill, desire and patience from those around her especially her director and co-stars. Less so in her early days, but by the mid fifties she had become insecure from too much drinking mixed with pharmaceuticals and too much ill applied Freudian psychiatry. Actors with self-discipline found her infuriating. As a member of the audience I don't think I'm alone in saying it was well worth it. With a decent script such as "Some Like It Hot" the fans found her better and better as she progressed from The Seven Year Itch to The Misfits. However difficult the creative process may have been. Fox sacrificed a good and possibly great film to instead support the bloated antics of Taylor and Burton that were bleeding the studio's shareholders for a rather muddled epic, "Cleopatra".