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The wonderful Kim Morgan has a piece up about Don’t Bother to Knock<\/i><\/a> with Marilyn Monroe and Richard Widmark (rest in peace). I remember Alex <\/a>telling me I HAD to see this movie, somehow I had missed it, although I had seen most of Marilyn’s other stuff.<\/p>\n Morgan writes:<\/p>\n But, why? Why must women have to be so <\/em>normal? Though suffering from deep seated psychological problems, I sense that it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s this type of “normal” pressure making her crack (the punishing and smarmy Cook Jr. doesn’t help either). Monroe portrays these ideas beautifully, so much so, that I wondered how much of her real life was seeping into her performance, it plays so real. I kept wishing that she could just get out of that hotel, doll herself up and have some fun with a man who might understand her. Widmark isn’t really the one, even though underneath his smirk and swagger, he\u00e2\u0080\u0099s essentially a good heart. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The wonderful Kim Morgan has a piece up about Don’t Bother to Knock with Marilyn Monroe and Richard Widmark (rest in peace). I remember Alex telling me I HAD to see this movie, somehow I had missed it, although I … Continue reading