In the hotels bar/club, singer Lyn Lesley (Anne Bancroft) tries to keep the show going. The film takes place in a busy New York City hotel. Daniel Taradash adapted the screenplay from the novel Mischief by Charlotte Armstrong. With Richard Widmark, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Bancroft, Donna Corcoran. Dont Bother to Knock is a 1952 American Film Noir thriller directed by British director Roy Ward Baker. Gary Vitacco-Robles is the author of ICON: The Life, Times and Films of Marilyn Monroe, Volumes 1 & 2 , and writer/producer of the podcast series, Marilyn: Behind the Icon. Don't Bother to Knock: Directed by Roy Ward Baker. You can read all of Gary’s Marilyn: Behind the Icon articles for CMH here.
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–Gary Vitacco-Robles for Classic Movie Hub Monroe later told friend Hedda Rosten that Don’t Bother to Knock was one of her favorite films and considered Nell her strongest performance. Hailed her: “Monroe-hitherto typed as a glamour girl-easily comes off best withĪ surprisingly effective impersonation of a mousy maniac.”Īrguably, Monroe effectively channeled her mentally ill mother and gives a believable performance as a vaguely written character in a script without any description of her personality. Seductiveness to sadness to desperation very compelling.” Newsweek Dont Bother to Knock movie reviews & Metacritic score: After being dumped by his girlfriend, an airline pilot pursues a babysitter in his hotel and. Several successive changes of mood and makes her transitions from lethargy to His 1952 essay “Blame the Audience,” film critic Manny Farber he pointed to theįilm as one of the ten best of the year: “Monroe takes her character through In a positive review, Variety announced Monroe “givesĪn excellent account of herself in a strictly dramatic role which commandsĬertain attention…the studio has an upcoming dramatic star in Miss Monroe.” In
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