Product Description

In her second film appearance, Marilyn Monroe stars as Peggy Martin, a second-generation showgirl who begins a romance with a rich young man (Randy Brooks), an action that strains her relationship with her mother (Adele Jurgens).

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #90220 in DVD
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Formats: PAL, Black & White

Features

• Region 2 encoding (Europe, Japan, South Africa and the Middle East including Egypt).
• Requires multi-region DVD player in the US.

Customer Reviews

Excellent Rare Early Marilyn
Filmed very early in her career Marilyn shines and saves what would have been an otherwise mediocre and very predictable little film.Her unique luminosity and talents gives a good glimpse of the diamond in the rough that would later become highly polished and shine.Her singing is very good and her dancing and acting oozes with class and sensuality.This rare and hard to find little gem is a MUST for Marilyn Monroe fans and collectors.

Coming in at just under an hour, there is simply one thing
that separates Ladies from all the rest. Marilyn's top billing for the first time. It didn't lead immediately to stardom however. She still had some slim supporting roles ahead of her. She also never appeared in a Columbia production again. She could really sing, dance & act but got little chance to do any of those, save a few choice roles later, that showed how good an actress she was becoming. Glimpses really. The plot is pretty typical: Chorus girl falls for a rich guy. Fears abound that she won't fit his society friends & family. Adele Jergens, only nine years older than Marilyn in reality, played her mother. A bit of a streach & kind of a slap to the career, but Ms Jergens handled the role very welll. Hey, a job is a job. Interesting to see Marilyn very early in a relatively big part.

early Marilyn vehicle a must for fans
Before she became one of the top money-makers for Twentieth Century-Fox, Marilyn Monroe was under contract to Columbia, where she starred in LADIES OF THE CHORUS, a brisk programmer alongside B-movie bombshell Adele Jergens.

A typical backstage musical of the period, LADIES OF THE CHORUS stars Monroe as Peggy Martin, a promising young showgirl who performs with her mother Mae (Adele Jergens) in a a chorus line. Thanks to a blonde wig and lots of foundation, ageing Mae can still get away with playing the glamorous chorine, but realises that Peggy will soon take over the star spot in the revue. When a backstage admirer (Rand Brooks) threatens to take Peggy out of the act altogether by marrying her, Mae--still nursing her own broken heart from a similar romance in her past, which ended after her prospective in-laws denounced the union--vows to ensure that Peggy's decision won't come at the cost of her own showbiz career...

Although it's standard stuff, LADIES OF THE CHORUS is a great treat for fans of Marilyn. She performs her sizzling "Every Baby Needs a Da-Da-Daddy" and "Can't You See I Love You?". B-movie livewire Adele Jergens is a hoot playing the over-the-hill Mae.

A fun title for Monroe completists.