This DVD is a UK release, (PAL Region 0 DVD) it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need a multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada. One of Marilyn Monroes earliest starring roles (of her ten previous films, she had been uncredited in four of them) finds her playing the newspaper office receptionist Iris. The paper is run by Blake Washburn, who has just been defeated in a bid for re-election to the state senate, and uses the paper to ruffle big business.