Marilyn the Premiere Collection

EXCELLENT!
The info on Amazon is limited, so let me fill you in. There are seventeen disks... one per movie. The disks are grouped in a sort of jacket according to their release date. Their are three jackets (?) (Volume One(1950-2), Volume Two(1952-3), and Volume Three(1954-61). Each unfolds to reveal a picture of Marilyn on the back and the CDs for the set on the inside. The front of each volume is laid out much like a magazine with the movie names as headlines and a brief catch ("Getting your foot in the door","Tricks to looking younger", etc.), which I found quite cute. The back of the actual box shows all of the movies, their volumes, and brief summaries. As for the movies, there are 10 B&W and 7 Color movies. Here they are:

Volume One: 1950-1952:
All About Eve (B&W)
As Young As You Feel(B&W)
Lets Make It Legal(B&W)
Love Nest(B&W)
Don't Bother To Knock(B&W)

Volume Two: 1952-1953
Monkey Business(B&W)
O. Henry's Full...

5 Stars for the movies, 1 star for packaging - BE WARNED!
I've seen a lot of gripes about the packaging, and it really is terrible; cheap paperboard cases with simple slots to hold the disks in place. Add in the usual mistreatment packages suffer traveling through the USPS and you get shipping anarchy. In sets 1 and 2, Don't Bother to Knock and Niagara were free-floating and visibly scratched, and go figure, these are two of the movies I've been dying to see in restored versions (in fact EVERY disk seems scratched to some degree, and adorned with little flecks of paper and dust, incredible but true). You may want to check all of the disks by FF through them (as I am doing now - if The Seven Year Itch had been unplayable I would have been quite irate). Fortunately I had no problems with the disks, as I FF through them and didn't see any odd pauses or jumps. I've attached a photo of set 1 to show how lame that packaging is. As for the movies, I grew up seeing choppy old prints of Niagara on TV, and this restored version looks incredible -...

This is a whopper of a box set at a great price! Now, where are the blu rays?
This is one great box set of Marilyn's films (17 in this set) on 17 single DVDs. It's also awesome you get all these movies from Fox (not public domain) for under fifty bucks!! There are just a few special features on the movies, but I want the Monroe movies to watch. Looks as if these are older transfers, but still look good for DVD. This is "The Premiere Collection" so don't expect Marilyn Monroe film school 101. These movies are great by themselves without a bunch of special features to dig through. My only complaint is the way Fox houses the discs. Could have been better, but hey I have never seen a 17 disc set so thin!! This could have been a monster of a box set. Glad it sits well on my shelves. This is NOT a complete collection of her films. There are several missing (including River of No Return) that should have been included in this set. Wonder why Fox didn't take the time and money to remaster each film? I have MANY collections on DVD and I find this set one of the most...

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