A naive but stubborn cowboy falls in love with a saloon singer and tries to take her away against her will to get married and live on his ranch in Montana.A naive but stubborn cowboy falls in love with a saloon singer and tries to take her away against her will to get married and live on his ranch in Montana.A naive but stubborn cowboy falls in love with a saloon singer and tries to take her away against her will to get married and live on his ranch in Montana.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 win & 9 nominations total
Max Showalter
- Life Magazine Reporter
- (as Casey Adams)
Linda Brace
- Evelyn
- (uncredited)
Mary Carroll
- Cashier
- (uncredited)
J.M. Dunlap
- Orville
- (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
- Elderly Passenger
- (uncredited)
Ed Fury
- Cowboy in Saloon
- (uncredited)
Buddy Heaton
- Clown
- (uncredited)
Fay L. Ivor
- Rodeo Usher
- (uncredited)
Richard Culvert Johnson
- Messenger
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaMarilyn Monroe, who had seen and loved Kim Stanley's performance in the Broadway production of "Bus Stop", patterned her accent on Stanley's, as well as those accents she had heard during her own time in the South. Monroe worked diligently on the hillbilly twang, speaking quite differently than in her other movies, and subverted her natural singing talent to make it painfully clear that Chérie was not gifted in that department.
- GoofsAlthough several sequences were indeed filmed in Phoenix AZ involving 1956 rodeo and rodeo parade, non-rodeo scenes supposedly depicting downtown Phoenix and Cherie's boardinghouse were clearly shot elsewhere - no major thoroughfare in Phoenix has hilly terrain or Victorian style buildings seen in film.
- Crazy creditsAnd Introducing / Don Murray
- ConnectionsEdited into Myra Breckinridge (1970)
- SoundtracksThe Bus Stop Song
(1956)
Written by Ken Darby
Sung in the opening credits off-screen by The Four Lads
Also partially sung by a guitar-playing Arthur O'Connell (uncredited) and the bus passengers
Featured review
"I almost married a cousin of mine when I was 14, but Pappy wouldn't have it!" (Cherie)
"Bus Stop" is named for the setting of the last half-hour of this film, the bus stop in the snow, somewhere in Wyoming, where Beau finally gets his 'comeuppance', right before he and Cherie reconcile. If this movie had not been made in 1956, but instead in modern times, it would have received a very laughable reception. As it is, I consider it a cult classic in the genre of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", so horrible and fake are the characters and the dialog.
However, Marilyn Monroe, in her 26th film, playing a simple showgirl from Arkansas, does very well with her role. Don Murray as "Beau", in his very first film, is so obnoxious that by the time he apologises for his bad behavior, we no longer care about him, and "Cherie's" accepting him just doesn't make sense. Hope Lange has a small part as "Elma" on the bus, in this her first film. She and Murray married afterward in real life, but it didn't last. Murray made a number of other films, including the father in "Quarterback Princess" in 1983 with Helen Hunt.
The reason to see this film is Marilyn Monroe in her prime, almost 30, and only 6 years from her death. The story, of the possessive cowboy who decides to marry Cherie and haul her away to his ranch in Montana, is pretty simple and pretty implausible. The scene in the bus stop, where he finally kisses her "for serious", was also featured in an episode of Northern Exposure, with Chris playing Beau and Maggie playing Cherie, for a community theater production they were rehearsing for.
However, Marilyn Monroe, in her 26th film, playing a simple showgirl from Arkansas, does very well with her role. Don Murray as "Beau", in his very first film, is so obnoxious that by the time he apologises for his bad behavior, we no longer care about him, and "Cherie's" accepting him just doesn't make sense. Hope Lange has a small part as "Elma" on the bus, in this her first film. She and Murray married afterward in real life, but it didn't last. Murray made a number of other films, including the father in "Quarterback Princess" in 1983 with Helen Hunt.
The reason to see this film is Marilyn Monroe in her prime, almost 30, and only 6 years from her death. The story, of the possessive cowboy who decides to marry Cherie and haul her away to his ranch in Montana, is pretty simple and pretty implausible. The scene in the bus stop, where he finally kisses her "for serious", was also featured in an episode of Northern Exposure, with Chris playing Beau and Maggie playing Cherie, for a community theater production they were rehearsing for.
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- TxMike
- Oct 4, 2001
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Autobuska stanica
- Filming locations
- 13439 State Highway 75, Ketchum, ID 83340(Roadside Diner Exteriors - Building was moved and remodeled into a guest house just down from its original location at the time of filming.)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $2,200,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 36 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.55 : 1
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