![]() She came up for the first rehearsal, and she was absolutely perfect, when she remembered the line. And she automatically knew where the joke was. She had a kind of elegant vulgarity about her. I still wonder, though.īilly Wilder said this about Monroe (this is a transcription of a conversation he had with Cameron Crowe): ![]() She wanted the love of the audience, she needed that love, it had to happen. Who knows, maybe she wouldn’t have wanted it. ![]() But Don’t Bother to Knock hints at another kind of career that this woman could have had. Now I’m not saying that her work, as it exists, in comedic gems such as Some Like It Hot is somehow lesser, or somehow lacking. It makes you think of her courage in putting up with contemptuous projects like Let’s Make Love or The Seven Year Itch (one of the meanest spirited movies she was ever in) and wonder what might have happened if she had been allowed to experiment. Seeing Monroe’s performance in 1952’s Don’t Bother to Knock, as Nell, the psychologically shattered and borderline psychotic babysitter in a plush hotel, makes you wonder about roads not traveled. I think it helped destroy her.” - Arthur Miller on Marilyn Monroe Pretty hard to withstand – a culture of contempt. They simply adopted the contempt with which they were treated. There was some demeaning aspect to the whole thing. Like John Garfield was a terrific actor – yet he did nothing but scream and howl. But at that time – I mean, she came in at the height of the Hollywood system – and she was not alone feeling debased by the whole thing. “I rather think that had she endured, had she come ten years later, maybe it would have been different. Here is a look at an under-rated performance, that of the babysitter in “Don’t Bother to Knock”, co-starring Richard Widmark. Yesterday, June 1, was Marilyn Monroe’s birthday.
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