Bus Stop (1956)

Directed by
Joshua Logan

Writing credits
George Axelrod
William Inge (play)

Cast
Marilyn Monroe ... Cherie
Don Murray ... Beauregard 'Bo' Decker
Arthur O'Connell ... Virgil Blessing
Betty Field ... Grace
Eileen Heckart ... Vera
Robert Bray ... Carl
Hope Lange ... Elma Duckworth
Hans Conried ... Life Magazine Photographer
Max Showalter ... Life Magazine Reporter (as Casey Adams)

Tagline
The coming of age of Bo Decker...and the girl who made him a man!
Give this boy enough rope and he'll land Marilyn Monroe!

Plot
Innocent rodeo cowboy Bo falls in love with cafe singer Cherie in Phoenix. She tries to run away to Los Angeles but he finds her and forces her to board the bus to his home in Montana. When the bus stops at Grace's Diner the passengers learn that the road ahead is blocked. By now everyone knows of the kidnaping, but Bo is determined to have Cherie.

Trivia
Marilyn Monroe objected to the color of Hope Lange's hair, claiming that it was too fair and detracted from her own. As a result, Lange's hair was darkened.

Don Murray suffered painful facial cuts when Monroe overdid a scene in which she had to slap him with the sequined tail of her costume.

Murray has said that Monroe was actually naked under her sheets because she thought that her character would really have been naked.