Urban Myths: Marilyn Monroe & Billy Wilder

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.

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?

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

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.