‘My Week With Marilyn’ to Premiere at NY Film Fest

Film stars Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe; restored “Ben-Hur,” Nicholas Ray film also added to NYFF slate

The world premiere of "My Week with Marilyn," the Weinstein Company film starring Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe and Kenneth Branagh as Laurence Olivier, will serve as the centerpiece gala of the 2011 New York Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center announced on Thursday.

Michelle WilliamsThe film will screen at Alice Tully Hall on Sunday, October 9, as part of the 49th NYFF, which runs from September 30 through October  16.

Based on the diaries of a young production assistant, Colin Clark (played by Eddie Redmayne), the film deals with a week on the set of the 1956 film "The Prince and the Showgirl," which starred Monroe and Olivier.

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