Doctor Who Vs. My Week With Marilyn

This BBC Films production was 

based on The Prince, the Showgirl

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 seven days 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 on BBC1 last night, the production also featured Julia Ormond,

Emma Watson, Judi Dench, Derek Jacobi, Miranda Raison, and nine-

teen 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 Clark respectively - Torrens also voiced Charlie Gibbs for Eldrad Must Die! (2013), and Kenton for Break the Ice (2022)
• Robert Portal (Orton) voiced Marshal Ney/Superintendent Finch for The Curse of Davros (2012), Reggie Bassett for The Auntie Matter (2013), Dr. Poograss for Whatever Remains, Jim/Midge for Lost Property, and Treadwell for Wild Animals (all 2020)
• Philip Jackson (Smith) voiced Laxton for Valhalla (2007), Peabody for The Contingency Club (2016), and Harry Price for The Dalby Spook (2022)
• 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/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 UNIT (2004), 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), and Huthro for Stone Cold (2023)
• David Rintoul [born Wilson] (Dr. Connell) voiced Lord Henry Balfour for The Phoenix Strain (2016), Professor Andus 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), Kinade/Priest/Bishop for The Curse of Lady Macbeth (2021), Garron for The Ribos Inheritance, and Butler for The House That Hoxx Built (both 2022)
• [William Henry] Richard Clifford (Wattis) voiced Novar for The Master's Dalek Plan, Pandak in Shockwave (both 2019), and Merlin for The Lone Centurion 2 (2022)
• 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 The Mindless Ones (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