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Don't Bother to Knock (1952)
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Marilyn Monroe's first bona fide starring role came in the taut, stripped-down film noir Don't Bother to Knock. She plays a recently institutionalized, none-too-stable babysitter, awkwardly tending a little girl in a Manhattan hotel. Richard Widmark, jilted by the songbird (Anne Bancroft) in the hotel lounge ("The female race is always cheesing up my life," he pouts), puts the make on the lonely blonde in room 809, to his regret. The picture benefits by not being a "Marilyn" movie, but just a good little thriller with, as it happens, a terrific performance by the future superstar. Monroe's childlike distraction eerily suits her...
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There is a reason Marilyn never played roles as balls out nuts as this, because she is not horribly convincing. In this film we meet the residents of a middle class hotel, as they interact with the overly nosy elevator operator. This same operator recommends his niece to babysit for a couple staying in the hotel, enter...
(complete Don't Bother to Knock review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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