Bus Stop

1956
U
1h 36m

IMDb RATING

6.3/10

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Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, and Arthur O'Connell in Bus Stop (1956)

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Comedy Drama Romance

A naive but stubborn cowboy falls in love with a saloon singer and tries to take her away against her will to get married and live on his ranch in Montana.A naive but stubborn cowboy falls in love with a saloon singer and tries to take her away against her will to get married and live on his ranch in Montana.A naive but stubborn cowboy falls in love with a saloon singer and tries to take her away against her will to get married and live on his ranch in Montana.

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IMDb RATING

6.3/10

13K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 win & 9 nominations total

Themselves
(uncredited)

Linda Brace

Evelyn
(uncredited)

Mary Carroll

Cashier
(uncredited)

J.M. Dunlap

Orville
(uncredited)

Bess Flowers

Elderly Passenger
(uncredited)

Ed Fury

Cowboy in Saloon
(uncredited)

Buddy Heaton

Clown
(uncredited)

Fay L. Ivor

Rodeo Usher
(uncredited)

Richard Culvert Johnson

Messenger
(uncredited)

Director
- Joshua Logan
Writers
- George Axelrod
- William Inge
All cast & crew
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Trivia
Marilyn Monroe, who had seen and loved Kim Stanley's performance in the Broadway production of "Bus Stop", patterned her accent on Stanley's, as well as those accents she had heard during her own time in the South. Monroe worked diligently on the hillbilly twang, speaking quite differently than in her other movies, and subverted her natural singing talent to make it painfully clear that Chérie was not gifted in that department.

Goofs
Although several sequences were indeed filmed in Phoenix, Arizona, involving a 1956 rodeo and rodeo parade, non-rodeo scenes supposedly depicting downtown Phoenix and Cherie's boardinghouse were clearly shot elsewhere; no major thoroughfare in Phoenix has hilly terrain or Victorian-style buildings seen in film.

Quotes
Cherie: I hate you and I despise you! Now give me back my tail!

Crazy credits
And Introducing / Don Murray

Connections
Edited into Myra Breckinridge (1970)

Soundtracks
The Bus Stop Song
(1956)
Written by Ken Darby
Sung in the opening credits off-screen by The Four Lads
Also partially sung by a guitar-playing Arthur O'Connell (uncredited) and the bus passengers

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Featured review

A great performance

Bus Stop has been rightly hailed as Marilyn Monroe's breakthrough performance in a movie as a serious dramatic actress. She is absolutely superb here, ditching the breathless dumb blonde of earlier roles and playing a hardened, Southern chanteuse in search of true love. She manages to convey a whole range of emotions which is testament to her time spent at Lee Strasberg's Actor's Studio in New York. As usual she sparkles and it's difficult to take your eyes off her, but there is a depth and sympathy to her playing that makes you take note of the performance and not simply the curves.

However, Bus Stop is a relatively simple picture of unrequited then requited love. The comedy moments don't often work that well and Don Murray's Beau has to be one of the most irritating characters I have ever seen in a film. Him and Cherie coming together at the end of the picture is unbelievable and spoiled the movie for me...I always wanted her to get away!

Bus Stop is more enjoyable from the Monroe point of view as her playing is spellbinding and marked a turning point in her career.