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31/08/1956 Comedy, Drama, Romance 1h 35m
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Give this boy enough rope and he'll land Marilyn Monroe!

Overview

Cowboys Beauregard Decker and Virgil Blessing attend a rodeo in Phoenix, where Decker falls in love with beautiful cafe singer Cherie. He wants to take Cherie back to his native Montana and marry her, but she dreams of traveling to Hollywood and becoming famous. When she resists his advances, Decker forces Cherie onto the bus back to Montana with him, but, when the bus makes an unscheduled stop due to bad weather, the tables are turned.

  1. Joshua Logan

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Marilyn Monroe

    Cherie

  2. Don Murray

    Beauregard 'Bo' Decker

  3. Arthur O'Connell

    Virgil Blessing

  4. Betty Field

    Grace

  5. Eileen Heckart

    Vera

  6. Robert Bray

    Carl

  7. Hope Lange

    Elma Duckworth

  8. Hans Conried

    Life Magazine Photographer

  9. Max Showalter

    Life Magazine Reporter

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Reviews

A review by talisencrw
Written by talisencrw on 2016-03-17
In her prime, which because of her death at any early age was all of her cinematic life, Monroe was a gorgeous force of nature very much underappreciated in her thespianism. Once I adjusted to Logan's directional style and to the rodeo and fish-out-of-water concepts, I really laid back and enjoyed this. Though it doesn't feature Marilyn's best singing--she portrays a bad singer, at least at the start--it does have some of her best acting, as she finds out she's accepted for who she really is. Wish that had happened to her in real life. Don't get me wrong: it's not by any stretch of the imagina...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$220,000.00

Revenue
$7,270,000.00

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