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real highlight of the show was when Marilyn Monroe’s Oscar-nominated Bus Stop (1956) co-star Don Murray showed up to present Hollywood Actress of the Year to Williams who plays the iconic star in The Weinstein Company’s My Week With Marilyn. ”I’m the last of the the on-screen lovers of Marilyn Monroe and I still just happen to have a body that actually works, “ the 82-year old actor said to much laughter. “Michelle re-created moments I was so intimately familiar to me as I spent 14 months working with Marilyn. There’s not one thing in this film that’s not truthful. It was a revelation. Michelle’s performance made me appreciate Marilyn Monroe so much more.”
Williams, noticeably nervous, said her friends always wanted to see her win a award so she could basically sweat through the experience. She did well though closing with a touching perception about Monroe. “It seems to me that all Marilyn Monroe wanted was to be taken seriously as an actress and she studied so hard and never really there,” she said adding that it was ironic Williams herself could get this kind of recognition that so eluded the star she played.