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Hollywood often likes to have a flavour of the month, or sometimes of the year, and it\u2019s fair to say at the moment Elle Fanning<\/a> is probably both of those. <\/p>\n You can say \u2018having a moment\u2019 if you want to talk like people on the internet do, but either way, she is very much toward the top of casting directors\u2019 wishlists, with an upcoming legal drama co-starring Nicole Kidman agreed, a new film with Pamela Anderson dropping this week called Rosebush Pruning, and a spot on the Hollywood Walk of Fame secured next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n Aside from that, she\u2019s going to be one of the leads in the latest\u00a0Hunger Games\u00a0movie,\u00a0Sunrise on the Reaping,\u00a0opposite Ralph Fiennes, and she\u2019ll be doing a film with her sister, former War of the Worlds star Dakota, too. Busy busy, then.\u00a0<\/p>\n Fanning also had considerable acclaim earlier this year for Margo\u2019s Got Money Troubles,<\/a> the Apple TV series about a young woman getting pregnant and deciding to start an OnlyFans page to pay the bills. Co-starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Parks and Rec\u2019s Nick Offerman, it received eight Emmy nominations, including one each for the three leads and one for \u2018Best Comedy Series\u2019 and will be returning for a second season.<\/p>\n Although she was probably slightly overshadowed by Dakota\u2019s success in that 2005 Steven Spielberg sci-fi, the younger Fanning has still had a long old career since the start of the millennium, her biggest film hits probably being JJ Abrams\u2019 Super 8 and the Disney live action fantasy Maleficent, but it\u2019s probably not a surprise she went into acting given her obsession with a legendary screen icon from the age of seven.<\/p>\n Fanning told Interview magazine: \u201cMy favorite actress is Marilyn Monroe\u2026 I mean, of course, I love her look and everything. But I\u2019ve seen The Seven Year Itch [1955] and I loved that. I watched that all the time when I was little. I liked the dress. I was her for Halloween when I was seven. I did the makeup and the mole and I did all the poses with blowing kisses and all that.\u201d<\/p>\n One of Monroe\u2019s most famous roles<\/a>, The Seven Year Itch was the Billy Wilder-directed comedy that has gone down in history thanks to one memorable scene in particular, the moment where Monroe stands over a subway grate and struggles to keep herself decent as her dress is blown around by a passing train. <\/p>\n Further reading: Cutting Room Floor<\/p>\n Monroe picked up a Bafta nomination for her performance as \u2018The Girl\u2019 who turns the head of a New York City publishing executive, and the film was a global hit, earning ten times its budget at the box office. Despite that, Wilder was very upset with how the film turned out, because he felt he had been \u2018straightjacketed\u2019 by the Hays Code, which in the 1950s prevented films portraying certain subjects, one of which was adultery. <\/p>\n Another issue for Wilder was that he usually preferred to shoot in black and white, which many of his other classics, like The Apartment and Stalag 17, bear witness to, but Monroe was so convinced that she looked more glamorous in colour that she had it written into her contract that she wasn\u2019t to be shot in black and white. She made an exception for Wilder four years later<\/a> with Some Like it Hot, but only after the director showed her that Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis\u2019 drag make-up made their skin look green when shot in colour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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