Urban Myths: Marilyn Monroe & Billy Wilder. Marilyn Monroe (Gemma Arterton). Copyright: Little Rock
Urban Myths: Marilyn Monroe & Billy Wilder

Urban Myths: Marilyn Monroe & Billy Wilder

  • TV comedy drama
  • Sky Arts
  • 2018
  • 1 episode

Comedy about the filming of Some Like It Hot. Stars Gemma Arterton, Adam Brody, Felicity Montagu, Alex Pettyfer, James Purefoy and more.

Press clippings

Diane Morgan, the comedian who plays Cunk, has a lolling sort of a drawl that makes anything she says sound at least telling. You could easily sit through her presenting a documentary about sausages or sweets.

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Sky has obviously made Urban Myths in order to seem cool and up to the minute, like Netflix or Ryan Murphy, who makes Feud and American Crime Story, but it feels like Tesco Everyday Value to his Fortnum & Mason.

Camilla Long, The Sunday Times, 15th April 2018

Urban Myths: Marilyn Monroe and Billy Wilder review

Overall the sense was of an opportunity missed. Might it not have been more amusing to see this fable through Monroe's eyes, however bleary they were; or to wonder how she could have put in a performance of such scintillating comic precision despite being wasted all the time?

Gerard O'Donovan, The Telegraph, 13th April 2018

Did it really take Marilyn Monroe 47 attempts to nail one three-word line of dialogue on the set of Some Like It Hot? Does it matter? Accurate fact

Ellen E. Jones, The Guardian, 12th April 2018

Review: Urban Myths: Marilyn Monroe and Billy Wilder

Let's just say it is worth watching to the end of this neat little film written by Dave Cummings and directed by Sean Foley - and not just for a little in-joke for those familiar with the actual film that eventually became a huge hit.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 12th April 2018

Top stars announced for Sky Arts 2018 Urban Myths

A number of top stars - including Frank Skinner, Steve Pemberton, Anna Maxwell-Martin and Gemma Arterton - will star in the new season of Urban Myths one-off comedy dramas on Sky Arts.

British Comedy Guide, 12th March 2018

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