Niagara (1953)
The advertisements for Niagara ranked seeing Marilyn Monroe’s body as highly as Niagara Falls, so if she’s your favorite celebrity girlfriend, you’ve probably seen this movie more times than you can count. She wears a famous pink peek-a-boo dress, a gray suit like the icy blonde Hitchcock girls, and starts the movie naked in bed. As dolled up as she is in this film, the falls actually do have competition.
If you’ve only seen a couple of modern biopics about the famous sex symbol, this won’t give you the most accurate impression of her screen persona. You might want to rent it after Gentlemen Prefer Blondes or How to Marry a Millionaire. This wasn’t her usual role, but I appreciated seeing her in it, because I’ve read enough biographies to realize she wasn’t the innocent victim she wanted to appear to be.
In Niagara, she’s Joseph Cotten’s unhappy and unfaithful wife. Joe does have some mental problems, but when Marilyn cries on people’s shoulders to gain sympathy, perhaps she’s overplaying her hand. Her latest targets: honeymooners Jean Peters and Max Showalter. They’re staying in a nearby bungalow by the falls, and their joyous vacation is dampened by Marilyn and Joe’s baggage.
Filmed on location, you’ll get to see fun scenery like the Maid in the Mist boat tour and the climb up to the falls. Director Henry Hathaway certainly had his hands full, with the slick watery conditions and a notoriously difficult leading lady. This thriller is relatively exciting, even though it’s not perfect. Max is exceedingly goofy, and some of the sequences try to recreate Hitchcock’s slow rhythm. If you do like Hitchcock flicks, this is a good one to compare them to.
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If you’ve only seen a couple of modern biopics about the famous sex symbol, this won’t give you the most accurate impression of her screen persona. You might want to rent it after Gentlemen Prefer Blondes or How to Marry a Millionaire. This wasn’t her usual role, but I appreciated seeing her in it, because I’ve read enough biographies to realize she wasn’t the innocent victim she wanted to appear to be.
In Niagara, she’s Joseph Cotten’s unhappy and unfaithful wife. Joe does have some mental problems, but when Marilyn cries on people’s shoulders to gain sympathy, perhaps she’s overplaying her hand. Her latest targets: honeymooners Jean Peters and Max Showalter. They’re staying in a nearby bungalow by the falls, and their joyous vacation is dampened by Marilyn and Joe’s baggage.
Filmed on location, you’ll get to see fun scenery like the Maid in the Mist boat tour and the climb up to the falls. Director Henry Hathaway certainly had his hands full, with the slick watery conditions and a notoriously difficult leading lady. This thriller is relatively exciting, even though it’s not perfect. Max is exceedingly goofy, and some of the sequences try to recreate Hitchcock’s slow rhythm. If you do like Hitchcock flicks, this is a good one to compare them to.
Want to watch it? Click here to see it on ok.ru and thanks "YT Episodes" for posting!
More Joseph Cotten movies here!