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Bus Stop (1956)

Marilyn gives one of her best dramatic performances as chanteuse Cherie in Bus Stop. Newcomer Don Murray plays the innocent cowboy who abducts her, then learns to respect her and wins her heart.

Bus Stop released August 1956
Based on the play by William Inge
Directed by Joshua Logan
Twentieth Century-Fox
Technicolor
CinemaScope
96 minutes

Marilyn Monroe (Cherie)
Don Murray (Bo Decker)
Arthur O'Connell (Virgil Parch)
Betty Field (Grace)

With Don Murray in a scene from Bus Stop
On the set
Internet Movie Database entry for Bus Stop

Previous film River of No Return
Following film Something's Got To Give


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