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Article: BLONDE MEETS NOIR

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May 14, 1989
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Today at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Marilyn Monroe meets film noir. Twice. Roy Baker's "Don't Bother to Knock" (1952) looks noir. Set in a New York hotel, it casts Monroe as a creepy baby sitter who takes it into her head to kill her young charge and herself. Part of the reason she's scary is that she looks so pasty-faced and out-of-focus, the antithesis of the glamorous Marilyn that came later. Richard Widmark plays the hero. The cast is also spiced by Elisha Cook Jr. and, making her film debut in the role of a cabaret singer, Anne Bancroft. The nightcap: Henry Hathaway's "Niagara" (1953), in which the lush Technicolor makes Monroe's scheming wife look trashier than ...

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