This memoir investigates the chaotic, high-stakes production of the 1957 film The Prince and the Showgirl through the eyes of a young production assistant. Colin Clark, a recent college graduate, provides a candid, firsthand account of the professional and personal friction between two of the most iconic figures in cinema history, Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier. The narrative relies on Clark's contemporary diary entries to document the logistical failures, emotional volatility, and cultural clashes that defined the film's troubled set.

The text is regarded as a valuable, intimate primary source that captures the friction between the Method acting style and the traditional British theatrical approach. Its status as a fly-on-the-wall diary offers a rare, unvarnished perspective on the complexities of celebrity and the realities of film production.