Από την ασταθή παιδική της ηλικία ως Νόρμα Τζίν, μέχρι την άνοδό της στα αστέρια και τις ρομαντικές εμπλοκές, αυτό το επανασχεδιασμένο φανταστικό πορτρέτο του θρύλου του Χόλιγουντ Μέριλιν Μονρό θολώνει τα γεγονότα και τη μυθοπλασία για να εξερευνήσει τη διευρυνόμενη διαίρεση μεταξύ του δημόσιου και του ιδιωτικού εαυτού της.
Ο Σίντνεϊ Γιάνγκ είναι δημοσιογράφος και εκδότης ενός «εναλλακτικού μεταμοντέρνου» περιοδικού, με μηδενικό προϋπολογισμό και έδρα το Λονδίνο. Στην ουσία πρόκειται για ένα σατιρικό περιοδικό που έχει στόχο να βγάζει στη φόρα τα άπλυτα των εγχώριων διασημοτήτων. Παρόλο που ο Σίντνεϊ δηλώνει περήφανος για την ηθική του ακεραιότητα, δεν κάνει άλλη δουλειά από το να συκοφαντεί τους άλλους. Στην πραγματικότητα βέβαια, τον γοητεύουν τα φώτα της δημοσιότητας...
Η Τζιλ είναι η πάντα ψύχραιμη προσωπική βοηθός της Χέδερ, μιας ζωηρής χολιγουντιανής στάρλετ, την οποία προστατεύει από το άγριο βλέμμα των ΜΜΕ. Όταν η Χέδερ βρίσκεται νεκρή και οι υποψήφιες πέφτουν πάνω στην Τζιλ, η νεαρή βοηθός ξεκινά μια έρευνα λαβύρινθο για να μπορέσει να αποκαλύψει τον δολοφόνο, αποδεικνύοντας μαζί και την αθωότητα της...
In an attempt to sign a Hollywood starlet, struggling talent agent and former child star Howard Holloway must contend with her volatile father, a scheming long-time rival, and a producer and casting director who despise him.
Small-town bartender Owen Peadman goes to Los Angeles to raise money to help save his father's Minnesota restaurant. He tries to find a way into Hollywood society, where he meets socialite Lisa and her uptight actor boyfriend. Can he balance his growing feelings for Lisa with surviving the sordid lifestyles of the Hollywood elite?
Two seedy producers work to make a star out of a former stag-film actress while an aging rival conspires to ruin her.
The story of Margo Channing. Legend. True star of the theatre. The spotlight is hers, always has been. But now there’s Eve. Her biggest fan. Young, beautiful Eve. The golden girl, the girl next door. But you know all about Eve…don’t you…?
London Bridges, a fast rising Hollywood starlet, with her pampered pomeranian Latte in tow, arrives on location for "There Will Be Oil" to see that she won't be receiving the star treatment she is used to.
The Lentz Triplets are the biggest movie stars in the world. When it's time to renegotiate their contract, it's up to Biggs Tomlinson to get that ink on paper. He ventures to the mysterious Lentz household with his trusty briefcase in hand. There he meets Milly, aging film star and mother of the triplets. What follows is a game of cat and mouse as Biggs must solve the mystery of the Lentz family before it's too late.
Con artist Steve Blair persuades Tony Dallas, a Manhattan gangster, to finance a movie about Adam and Eve by offering the female lead to Tony's stripper girl friend, Cha Cha Miller. The film is such a disaster, however, that Steve and his writer, Paul Ferris, decide to escape on a freighter to Greece. En route, Steve learns that the island of Paradeisos has lost its tourist trade because it has no apparent historical or mythological heritage. Intrigued, he hits upon the scheme of turning Paradeisos into a legendary island of love and taking a cut from all commercial enterprises. After planting Greek antiquities in the waters surrounding the island, Steve induces Paul to "recover" them, thus causing the tourist trade to increase.
The story follows a movie crew who is filming a musical in a small and idyllic alpine village. After their temperamental leading lady drops out of the film, they decide to replace her with the village's young post office clerk Gretl, who returns to Berlin with them. There she has to struggle with the movie's all-male crew, who all try to woo and win her.
Hollywood stars go wild at the Riviera film festivals.