Bus Stop
Year: 1956
Studio: Marilyn Monroe Productions, 20th Century Fox
Director: Joshua Logan
Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell, Betty Field, Eileen Heckart, Robert Bray
Crew: George Axelrod (Screenplay), Joshua Logan (Director), Milton Krasner (Director of Photography), Marilyn Monroe (Producer), Ray Kellogg (Visual Effects), Ray Kellogg (Special Effects)
Runtime: 96 minutes
Release: Aug 31, 1956
IMDb: 6.10/10 by 226 users
Popularity: 3
Country: United States of America
Language: English
Budget: 220,000
Revenue: 7,270,000

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 imagination a great film. Yet neither is it the mediocrity other people tend to say it is.