Why best known for other things, birthday girl Marilyn Monroe made 3 memorable noir outings. Whats youre favorite Monroe performance, (noir or not)? THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (1950): A hoodlum and ex-con (Sterling Hayden) hopes for one last big score that will enable him to go home to his farm in Kentucky. He falls in with a gang of small time crooks plotting an elaborate jewel heist. Of course, you can never go home again. A young Marilyn Monroe plays a small but juicy part: The pretty young thing whom a wily lawyer (Louis Calhern) will do anything to keep, including collusion in armed robbery . Dir. John Houston DON’T BOTHER TO KNOCK (1952): In this gritty little noir, the boyfriend (Richard Widmark) of a hotel lounge singer (Anne Bancroft) tries to get back at her for dumping him, by picking up a beautiful hotel guest (Marilyn Monroe). Unfortunately for him, she’s not what she seems, and bit by bit he realizes the truth and the danger he’s in. Dir. Roy Baker NIAGARA (1953): Despite Joseph MacDonald’s Technicolor cinematography and its spectacular use of Niagara Falls, this film falls firmly into the noir category. A young couple (Jean Peters and Casey Adams) on vacation find themselves embroiled in a murderous plot involving their neighbors at the motor court. The wife (Marilyn Monroe) and her lover (Richard Allen) plot to kill her mentally unstable husband (Joseph Cotton) and things go awry. Dir. Henry Hathaway
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