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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Richard Widmark | ... | Jed Towers | |
| Marilyn Monroe | ... | Nell Forbes | |
| Anne Bancroft | ... | Lyn Lesley | |
| Donna Corcoran | ... | Bunny Jones | |
| Jeanne Cagney | ... | Rochelle | |
| Lurene Tuttle | ... | Ruth Jones | |
| Elisha Cook Jr. | ... | Eddie Forbes | |
| Jim Backus | ... | Peter Jones | |
| Verna Felton | ... | Mrs. Ballew | |
| Willis Bouchey | ... | Joe the Bartender (as Willis B. Bouchey) | |
| Don Beddoe | ... | Mr. Ballew | |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Emmett Vogan | ... | Toastmaster (unconfirmed) |
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Airline pilot Jed stays at the New York hotel where girlfriend Lyn is a singer. He sees Nell in a window opposite his and they get chummy. When the girl she's baby-sitting, Bunny, enters Nell goes crazy and sends her to her room. She fantasizes that Jed is her long lost fiance. Jed comes to realize that Nell is more than a little whacko. Written by Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
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lying | tearing up a letter | female singer | handwritten letter | putting out a cigarette |Taglines:
...a wicked sensation as the lonely girl in room 809! See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
August 1952 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Night Without Sleep See more »Filming Locations:
20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USACompany Credits
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)Color:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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Mrs. Emma Ballew: After all, we guests who live here from year to year, we deserve a little consideration, too.
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(uncredited)
Music by Burton Lane
Lyrics by Ralph Freed
Introduced in Babes on Broadway (1941)
Performed Eve Marley (uncredited) dubbing for by Anne Bancroft
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The events in the film take place in real-time. See more »Goofs
When Lyn and Jed get photographed in the bar by the camera lady, she snaps only one picture of them. When she brings the novelty items (handkerchief, matchbook, ashtray, and postcard) to their booth minutes later, the handkerchief shows a slightly different pose than the others. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Mrs. Emma Ballew: After all, we guests who live here from year to year, we deserve a little consideration, too.
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Soundtracks
How About You?(uncredited)
Music by Burton Lane
Lyrics by Ralph Freed
Introduced in Babes on Broadway (1941)
Performed Eve Marley (uncredited) dubbing for by Anne Bancroft
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A hotel guest flirts with a beautiful woman after a breakup from his girlfriend. He is seduced by the woman while she is babysitting. The child wakes up and terrorizes the child and the guest. The moral to this movie is never judge a book by its cover. Marilyn Monroe give her best acting performance in the whole movie and makes you understand her character emotions through the story. Very rare to find a movie with this type of acting even today.