Article: Move over Marilyn: BUS STOP's hidden talent
BUS STOP, the 1956 film starring Marilyn Monroe, is one of those frustrating dramas at the mercy of a woman who’s strong and independent at one moment and a doormat the next. Like Shakespeare’s Kate in “Taming of the Shrew” or even Helena in “All’s Well That Ends Well,” Monroe’s Cherie, a singer in a saloon, wafts between falling blindly into lust with Bo, a traveling rodeo rider from Montana and then later screaming at him across a crowded bar room “I hate you and I despise you!” after he treats her like one of the cattle he ropes, only to later follow him home to his ranch in Montana, a beaming bride to be.
