Bus Stop, Directed by Joshua Logan, 1956.
Marilyn Monroe and Don Murray star.
Bus Stop is a film in which Marilyn Monroe plays a singer in a bar who wants to follow her ‘direction’ which she has drawn on a map, to Hollywood.
Before we see her we meet Beauregard, a cowboy who comes to compete in the rodeo and is accompanied by his older and wiser friend. The youth has no experience of women but falls for Cherie at once and persues her with determination but no grace or care for her opinion, which is that she can’t marry a hick from Montana who lives on an isolated ranch.
It starts as a comedy of overstated exaggeration. There is a fight between the bus driver and Beau after which he has to change his attitude.
Cherie is very touched by this.
What I started watching just to follow how Marilyn acts, singing badly as Cherie, but always magnetic, somehow turns itself into something so sweet and sad and against all odds believable that I end up crying and remember this happened when I saw it before.
It turns out to be about more than at first appears.
All the more poignant if you have read about her life.
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