[lit-ideas] Re: Cultural parenting
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 21:20:28 -0700
Does anyone here remember the name of the early Marilyn Monroe movie (and
Anne Bancroft's first) where Marilyn is a psycho-babysitter for a couple's
daughter at a hotel?
Don't Bother to Knock (1952)
A real acting tour de force for Marilyn Monroe (just starting out as an
actress) as a disturbed babysitter who must take care of a young child in a
hotel room for one evening. Marilyn proved with this movie -- and a clutch
of others, most notably Bus Stop -- that she was more than just a pretty
face with a lot of curves.
Airline pilot Jed stays at the New York hotel where girlfriend Lyn is a
singer. He sees Nell in a window opposite his and they get chummy. When the
girl she's baby-sitting, Bunny, enters Nell goes crazy and sends her to her
room. She fantasizes that Jed is her long lost fiance. Jed comes to realize
that Nell is more than a little whacko. Written by Ed Stephan
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One night in a New York hotel, airline pilot Jed Towers gets the air from
his chanteuse girlfriend. Meanwhile, the Joneses, guests at the hotel, need
a baby-sitter, and elevator operator Eddie recommends his shapely niece
Nell. Jed sees Nell through his window, gets acquainted, and becomes
increasingly aware that this disturbed, spooky woman is the last person Mrs.
Jones should have entrusted with her daughter... Written by Rod Crawford
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