Bus Stop | film by Logan [1956] | Britannica (original) (raw)

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discussed in biography

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  In Joshua Logan: Films and plays of the 1940s and ’50s
  …basis for Logan’s next film, Bus Stop (1956), in which the director coaxed from Marilyn Monroe what some critics believe to be one of her best performances while guiding Don Murray to an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor. Even better received was Sayonara (1957), a story of interracial…
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Monroe

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  In Marilyn Monroe
  …Seven Year Itch (1955) and Bus Stop (1956) she began to emerge as a talented comedian. In 1956 she married playwright Arthur Miller and briefly retired from moviemaking, although she costarred with Laurence Olivier in The Prince and the Showgirl (1957). She won critical acclaim for the first time as…
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