Bus Stop details
Movie Details:
- Director: Joshua Logan
- Produced By: 20th Century Fox
- Year: 1956
- Run Time: 96 minutes
- Country: USA
- Language: English
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Romance, Comedy
- Filmed In: Color
- Alternate Titles: The Wrong Kind of Girl
- Key Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell, Betty Field, Eileen Heckart, Robert Bray, Hope Lange, Hans Conried, Full Credits
- Awards: Best Director (Directors Guild of America 1956), Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or C (Hollywood Foreign Press Association 1956), Best Picture (National Board of Review 1956), Full Awards
In this cinemadaptation of William Inge's Broadway comedy Bus Stop, Marilyn Monroe is cast as Cherie, a fifth-rate nightclub chanteuse who captures the heart of Montana rodeo champ Bo (Don Murray). He, in turn, kidnaps Cherie and bundles her off to the roadside bus stop of the title. Gradually, the headstrong Bo learns that you can't rope a gal the same way you lasso a steer, but before this happens his face is rearranged by gallant bus driver Carl (Robert Bray). By this time, however, Cherie has fallen in love with her impulsive but basically good-hearted abductor. Others in the cast include Arthur O'Connell as Bo's level-headed travelling companion and "protector" Virgil, Betty Field as down-to-earth bus stop proprietress Grace, and Eileen Heckart as Cherie's confidante Vera. The film later inspired a 1961 TV series. A few TV prints of Bus Stop still exist bearing the alternate title Wrong Kind of Girl. by Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Keywords:
- bus-depot
- cowboy
- kidnapping
- love
- marriage
- rodeo
- showgirl
Themes:
- Wedding Bells
- Opposites Attract
