Doctor Who Vs. My Week With Marilyn

This BBC Films production was 

based on The Prince, the Show-

girl and Me, the 1995 memoir 

from Colin Clark. The English 

writer and film-maker (played

here by Eddie Redmayne) got

 his big break in the film industry

when acting legend Laurence

Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) was

 directing The Prince and the Showgirl with his co-star,

Marilyn Monroe.

Released in 2011, the film

focused on the week in 1957

in which newly-married Marilyn

was escorted around Pinewood

Studios and London by Clark

after her husband (American playwright Arthur Miller) left England.

Marilyn (born Norma Jeane Mortenson in 1926) completed three

further features, including her biggest hit Some Like It Hot, and

died of an apparent suicide in 1962.

Michelle Williams' portrayal of Monroe was nominated for Oscar and

BAFTA Best Actress awards, and she won a Golden Globe award. 

Shown again on BBC Four last night, the star-studded production

also featured Julia Ormond, Emma Watson, Judi Dench, Derek

Jacobi, Miranda Raison, and nineteen other Doctor Who cast

and crew connections:

• [Stephen] Dougray Scott (Miller) was Professor Alec Palmer in Hide
• Toby [Edward Heslewood] Jones (Jacobs) was the Dream Lord in Amy's Choice, and voiced Kotris for Big Finish's Dark Eyes (2012)
• Pip [Dean] Torrens (Clark) and Gerard [James Pertwee] Horan (Trevor) both appeared in Human Nature and The Family of Blood, as Headmaster Rocastle and Mr. Clark respectively - Torrens also voiced Charlie Gibbs for Eldrad Must Die! (2013)
• Robert Portal (Orton) voiced Marshal Ney and Superintendent Finch for The Curse of Davros (2012), Reggie Bassett for The Auntie Matter (2013), Dr. Poograss for Whatever Remains, Jim and Midge for Lost Property, and Treadwell for Wild Animals (all 2020)
• Philip Jackson (Smith) voiced Laxton for Valhalla (2007), and Peabody for The Contingency Club (2016)
• Zoe Wanamaker (Paula) was Lady Cassandra in The End of the World and New Earth
• Jem Wall (Spectator) was Michael in The Lodger
• prolific Big Finish actor Alex Lowe (Coop) voiced Brigadier-General Bartholomew Kitchen for The Angel of Scutari, Huxley for Ringpull- world (both 2009) and Find and Replace, Axel for The Song of Megaptera, Private Michaels for The Bloodless Soldier, Sergeant Lange and Ragamuffin for The Similarity Effect, Professor August Corbin for Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge (all 2010), Sergeant Mezz/Trooper Nold for Heroes of Sontar (2011), Damien Stephens/Roboman for Energy of the Daleks (2012), Young Jago for The Year of the Bat (2015), Soren for Time Reaver (2016), Archie Flowers for The Cars That Ate London, and Roderick for The Vigil (both 2019)
• Michael Hobbs (Reporter) voiced Francis Currie for the UNIT series, Fazackerly for Other Lives (2005), and Arcantis for Time in Office (2017)
• Jim [Edward] Carter (Barry) voiced Brother Bernard in The Book of Kells (2010)
• Victor McGuire (Andy) voiced Borton for In the Garden of Death (2018)
• David Rintoul [born Wilson] (Dr. Connell) voiced Lord Henry Balfour for The Phoenix Strain (2016), Professor Angus Renwick for The Helm of Awe (2017), Galla Posca for Escape from Kaldor (2018), Dr. Leon Jessel for Fever Island (2019), Roger Hodgkiss for Barrister to the Stars (2020), and Garron for The Ribos Inheritance (2022)
• [William Henry] Richard Clifford (Wattis) voiced Novar for The Master's Dalek Plan, and Pandak in Shockwave (both 2019)
• Des McAleer (Policeman) voiced Lefty Lonnigan for A Life of Crime (2016), Blujaw Skaldson for The Skin of the Sleek and The Thief Who Stole Time (both 2017)
• Paul Herzberg (Hardwick) voiced Dr. Suleiman Zorn for Shadow of the Sun (2020), and Betterment for Purity Undreamed (2022)
• co-producer Mark Cooper was one of the titular Robots of Death
• Adam Recht was film editor on A Christmas Carol too
• hair and make-up designer Jenny Shircore began her TV career as an assistant on Planet of Evil
• Richard Glass was an optician on The Time of the Doctor too