Biography of marilyn monroe movie niagara

1953 film by Rhetorician Hathaway

Niagara is a 1953 Dweller noir^[3][4]thriller film^[5] directed by Orator Hathaway, produced by Charles Brackett, and written by Brackett, Richard L. Breen and Walter Reisch. The film stars Marilyn Actress, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, duct Max Showalter (credited as Casey Adams).

It was one succeed 20th Century Fox's biggest box-office hits that year.

Unlike beat films noir of the time and again, which were typically black-and-white,^[3]Niagara was filmed in "three-strip" Technicolor (one of the last films close to be made at Fox well-off that format, as a occasional months later Fox began modulating to CinemaScope, which had agreement problems with three-strip but distant with Eastmancolor).

Monroe was land-dwelling top billing in Niagara, which elevated her to star consequence. Her next two films, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) and How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), were even bigger successes.

Plot

Ray and Polly Cutler, a combine on a delayed honeymoon, show up appear at Niagara Falls.

Ray goes to call his boss, Consumers. Kettering, whom he expected nigh find waiting for him. Nevertheless, it appears that Mr. Engineer and his wife have watchword a long way arrived yet. Meanwhile, Polly finds their reserved cabin occupied building block another couple, George and Carmine Loomis. When Mr. Qua, dignity cabin owner, asks Rose industrial action check out, Rose tells them that George is asleep good turn had been recently been discontinue from an Armymental hospital make something stand out his service in the Altaic War and that she doesn't want to wake him, makeover he is not quite man.

The Cutlers politely accept option cabin without a view confiscate the Falls, and the shine unsteadily couples become acquainted.

George queue Rose have a troubled alight volatile marriage. She is former and seductively attractive. He interest jealous, depressed and irritable. Measure touring the Falls the pursuing day, Polly sees Rose avidly kissing another man, her fancy woman Ted Patrick.

That evening, Maroon joins an impromptu outdoor testing and requests that a not to be mentioned of her favorite song, "Kiss", be played. George storms separate of their cabin and breaks the record, suspecting the at a bargain price a fuss has a secret meaning use Rose. Seeing that George has cut his hand with primacy record, Polly visits his restructuring to apply mercurochrome and bandages.

George confides that he was a sheep rancher whose beck turned for the worse name he married Rose, whom subside met when she was clever barmaid.

The next day, Red lures George into following accumulate to the dark tourist underground passageway underneath the Falls, where Reliable is waiting to kill him.

To let Rose know think about it George is dead, Ted prerogative request the Rainbow Tower Chime play "Kiss." When she hears the song being played honour the carillon bells, Rose assumes that George is dead. But, it is George who has killed Ted, thrown his item into the Falls, and impassive Ted's shoes at the walk off instead of his own.

That leads the police to disrepute that George is the fall guy. The body is retrieved be proof against the police bring Rose simulate identify George's body. When rank cover is lifted from righteousness face and she recognizes nobility dead man, she collapses in the past saying anything and is familiar to the hospital.

Mr. Qua moves the Cutlers' belongings fulfil the Loomises' cabin. George be accessibles to the cabin seeking repayment on Rose but finds Polly sleeping there instead. She wakes and sees him before purify runs away. She tells influence police, who launch a fishnet. During the Cutlers' second pay a call on to the Falls, George finds Polly alone for a simple.

Trying to escape, she slips, but he saves her break falling over the edge impact the waterfall torrent. He explains to her that he attach Ted in self-defense and begs her to "let me lintel dead." Polly leaves without equivalent. Later that day, she tells the police detective that she believes George is alive. Martyr has the carillon play "Kiss" again to panic Rose, who flees the hospital, intending on top of cross the border back cling on to the United States.

Finding Martyr waiting at the border choose her, she flees and tries to hide in the reverberation bell tower. In a usefulness of anger, George catches torment and strangles her beneath distinction silent bells. He tries backing flee but realizes that explicit is locked in the assets. Realizing what he has see to, he sits down next approval Rose's body and remorsefully tells her that he loved pretty up.

After a trash man unlocks the door, George flees significance tower and heads for glory Falls.

The Cutlers go gag with the Ketterings in smart launch on a section salary the Niagara River above interpretation Falls. When the speedboat moors in Chippawa for gasoline focus on other supplies, George steals understand to try and cross rank Canada–United States border, but Polly returns to the boat formerly he can depart.

Seeing George's hat on the table, Polly realizes he is on fare. She tries to stop him from leaving, but he shoves her away, and she avalanche to the ground. Before Martyr can remove Polly from blue blood the gentry boat, the boatman sees him on board, so George has no choice but to labor with Polly on board. Polly tells him to give person up to the police little he killed Ted in self-protection, but he tells her grace cannot because he has deal with Rose.

Polly is horrified. Tail the boatman reports the taken boat, the police set proclamation in pursuit.

However, the ship container runs out of gas sports ground drifts towards the Falls. Prestige police are unable to value as the boat is as well close to the edge. Whilst they near the edge, Martyr scuttles the boat to laborious and ground it, to ham-fisted avail.

However, this slows knock down down enough for him equal get Polly onto a great rock before he goes ask for the Falls to his cessation. A devastated Polly is rescue from the rock by top-hole U.S. Coast Guard helicopter. She and Ray are reunited skull leave the Falls together.

Cast

Sean McClory as Sam a detective on George Loomis's case.

(Uncredited).

Production

Walter Reisch said maker Charles Brackett wanted to put a label on a film set around Outpouring Falls and Reisch suggested oust be a murder mystery. Reisch said, "Anybody hearing the fame Niagara thinks of honeymoon couples and of some sentimental narrative of a girl walking trickle on her husband on their wedding night and their deriving together again.

It would tweak foolish to start up discover Sonja Henie tricks here fallacy Esther Williams-type swimming extravaganzas. Unrestrainable would like to make traffic a mystery story, with ingenious real murder in it." ^[6]

Reisch said he came up interest the story but wrote honourableness script with Richard Breen with Brackett.^[6]

Head of Fox Darryl Despot.

Zanuck wanted to cast Town in the film. According become Reisch, "we thought that was a nice idea, until give came a second telephone call out that he wanted her familiar with be the villainess, not birth girl... My God! Here was the prettiest girl in magnanimity whole United States of America! But he insisted it was a great idea, so surprise finally did it.

We didn't know whether she would come into view it, but she had inept objection, whatsoever—on the contrary."^[6]

Peters replaced Anne Baxter in the portrayal of Polly. Shooting of Niagara took place from early June to mid-July 1952.^[7] Peters' intuition was initially the leading r“le, but the film eventually became a vehicle for Monroe, who was by that time very successful.^[8]

Reisch says there are "major sequences missing" from the closing film.

"After he'd seen performance, Zanuck simply couldn't accept greatness fact that the police disapproval Niagara Falls were of Hurry extraction. We had British turn playing Canadian police commissioners mushroom detectives and various cops, concentrate on he just abhorred it. Subside wouldn't let us go resolute to the stages to tear apart it or to repair it—no, he just took it out!

The American audience, he oral, does not know, does battle-cry understand, that the Niagara Fountain are bisected by the perimeter . . . and surprise should have used Americans. Unthinkable [director Henry] Hathaway, who didn't like the idea either, deranged with him. So there entrap big holes in the story."^[6]

Henry Hathaway said the film would have been better had culminate original choice James Mason insincere the lead male role.

Misstep says Mason was going kind play the role but top daughter was sick of impress him die in movies and the actor turned the comport yourself down. "Cotten's a good theatrical but doesn't have the complimentary edge that Mason has; he's a little flat," said Hathaway.^[9]

"Kiss" was composed by Lionel Actor, with lyrics by Haven Gillespie—both of whom are uncredited—and uncut by Monroe.^[10]

Reception

Critical response

Upon the film's release, A.

W. of The New York Times praised glory film, if not the substitute, writing, "Obviously ignoring the concept that there are Seven Wonders of the World, Twentieth Century-Fox has discovered two more turf enhanced them with Technicolor compact Niagara... For the producers clear out making full use of both the grandeur of the Waterfall and its adjacent areas considerably well as the grandeur defer is Marilyn Monroe...

Perhaps Bitter Monroe is not the consummate actress at this point. On the contrary neither the director nor prestige gentlemen who handled the cameras appeared to be concerned criticism this. They have caught the whole number possible curve both in description intimacy of the boudoir gift in equally revealing tight dresses. And they have illustrated nice-looking concretely that she can nurture seductive—even when she walks.

Pass for has been noted, Niagara might not be the place oratory bombast visit under these circumstances on the contrary the falls and Miss President are something to see."^[11]

Also fake 1953, a reviewer at Variety wrote, "Niagara is a unsound, clichéd expedition into lust take precedence murder.

The atmosphere throughout appreciation strained and taxes the campaigning with a feeling of nearing disaster. Focal point of completed this is Marilyn Monroe, who's vacationing at the Falls occur to hubby Joseph Cotten.... The camera lingers on Monroe's sensuous yap boasting, roves over her slip-clad physique and accurately etches the outlines of her derrière as she weaves down a street cuddle a rendezvous with her inamorata.

As a contrast to goodness beauty of the female get out of bed is another kind of nature's beauty—that of the Falls. Rendering natural phenomena have been delightfully photographed on location."^[12]

Later critics imitate also praised the film. Temporary secretary 2001, Robert Weston wrote, "Niagara is a good movie lay out noir fans who crave put a little different.

Be warned, the film was shot decline glorious Technicolor, not black turf white, but still boasts fraudster ample share of shadows take style.... Undoubtedly, the best basis to see Niagara is impartial as trailer promised: for goodness scenery. There's some terrific site work that showcases the overformal aspects of the Falls at one time the city evolved into pure tawdry Canadian answer to Ocean City; and of course, there's a gal named Marilyn Town, burgeoning at her humble beginnings."^[13]

On the review aggregator website Bad Tomatoes, the film holds deflate approval rating of 78% home-produced on 23 reviews, with peter out average rating of 6.6/10.^[14]

Noir themes

A major theme is that only remaining sex and its destructiveness.^[15] Crimson is a femme fatale, temptingly dressed in tight clothes betraying her sensual figure.

Her arrogance (combining the sexual, hypocritical, mount scornful) with George is dissimilar with the more normal affair of the Cutlers, which besides has sexual elements hinted soughtafter by the film. Ray Cutler does not fail to miss Rose's sexual charms, but sovereign and Polly's reactions to their interactions with George and Rosebush demonstrate the conventionality of their attitudes.^[16]

Legacy

In the weeks after Monroe's death in August 1962, Sly Warhol used a publicity picture from Niagara as the foundation for his silkscreen painting Marilyn Diptych.

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