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A naive but stubborn cowboy falls in love with a saloon singer and tries to take her away against her will to get married and live on his ranch in Montana.
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Chérie
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Beauregard 'Bo' Decker
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Virgil Blessing
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Grace
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Vera
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Carl
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Elma Duckworth
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Life Magazine Photographer
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Life Magazine Reporter (as Casey Adams)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Arizona State University Sun Devil Marching Band ...
Themselves (uncredited)
Linda Brace ...
Evelyn (uncredited)
Mary Carroll ...
Cashier (uncredited)
J.M. Dunlap ...
Orville (uncredited)
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Elderly Passenger (uncredited)
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Cowboy in Saloon (uncredited)
Buddy Heaton ...
Clown (uncredited)
Fay L. Ivor ...
Rodeo Usher (uncredited)
Richard Culvert Johnson ...
Messenger (uncredited)
Terry Kelman ...
Gerald (uncredited)
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Blonde on Street (uncredited)
Pete Logan ...
Announcer (uncredited)
Kate MacKenna ...
Elderly Passenger (uncredited)
Jack Martin ...
Rodeo Cowboy (uncredited)
Helen Mayon ...
Landlady (uncredited)
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Ticket Taker at Bus (uncredited)
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Man at Rodeo (uncredited)
Phil J. Munch ...
Preacher (uncredited)
Jim Katugi Noda ...
Japanese Cook (uncredited)
James O'Rear ...
Mr. Foster (uncredited)
Norman Papson ...
Bar Patron (uncredited)
Wilbur Plaugher ...
Clown (uncredited)
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Cowboy (uncredited)
William Schub ...
Messenger (uncredited)
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Elderly Passenger (uncredited)
Henry Slate ...
Manager of Blue Dragon Nightclub (uncredited)
Bill Stanberry ...
Skinny Bull Rider (uncredited)
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Cover Girl (uncredited)
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Casey Tibbs (uncredited)
Andy Womack ...
Clown (uncredited)

Directed by

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Joshua Logan

Written by

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George Axelrod ... (screenplay)
 
William Inge ... (based on the play by)

Produced by

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Buddy Adler ... producer (produced by)

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Cyril J. Mockridge
Alfred Newman

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Milton R. Krasner ... director of photography (as Milton Krasner)

Editing by

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William Reynolds

Editorial Department

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Leonard Doss ... color consultant
Lyman Hallowell ... assistant editor (uncredited)
Orven Schanzer ... first assistant editor (uncredited)

Art Direction by

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Mark-Lee Kirk
Lyle R. Wheeler

Set Decoration by

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Paul S. Fox ... (set decorations)
Walter M. Scott ... (set decorations)

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Travilla ... (costumes designed by)

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Ben Nye ... makeup artist
Helen Turpin ... hair stylist
Allan Snyder ... makeup artist: Miss Monroe (uncredited)

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Ben Kadish ... assistant director

Art Department

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Don B. Greenwood ... property master (uncredited)

Sound Department

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Alfred Bruzlin ... sound
Harry M. Leonard ... sound

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Ray Kellogg ... special photographic effects

Camera and Electrical Department

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Earl Gilbert ... lighting technician (uncredited)
John M. Stephens ... still photographer (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department

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Charles Le Maire ... executive wardrobe designer (as Charles LeMaire)
Sam Benson ... wardrobe (uncredited)
Ed Wynigear ... wardrobe (uncredited)

Music Department

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Ken Darby ... vocal supervisor
Alfred Newman ... conductor
Edward B. Powell ... orchestrator
Maurice De Packh ... orchestrator (uncredited)
Bernard Mayers ... orchestrator (uncredited)

Additional Crew

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Denis deVallance ... crew (uncredited)
Joe Hyams ... publicist (uncredited) / unit publicist (uncredited)
Pat Newcomb ... publicist (uncredited)
Patricia Newcomb ... publicist: Marilyn Monroe (uncredited)
Roger L. Stevens ... producer: original stage production (uncredited)
Greta Thyssen ... body double: Marilyn Monroe (uncredited)
Robert Whitehead ... producer: original stage production (uncredited)
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Plot Summary

Innocent rodeo cowboy Bo falls in love with cafe singer Cherie in Phoenix. She tries to run away to Los Angeles but he finds her and forces her to board the bus to his home in Montana. When the bus stops at Grace's Diner the passengers learn that the road ahead is blocked. By now everyone knows of the kidnapping, but Bo is determined to have Cherie. Written by Ed Stephan

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Also Known As
  • The Wrong Kind of Girl (World-wide, English title)
  • Arrêt d'autobus (France)
  • Bus stop (Spain, Catalan title)
  • Autobuska stanica (Serbia)
  • Автобусната спирка (Bulgaria, Bulgarian title)
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  • 96 min
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Budget $2,200,000 (estimated)

Did You Know?

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Trivia Marilyn Monroe, who had seen and loved Kim Stanley's performance in the Broadway production of "Bus Stop", patterned her accent on Stanley's, as well as those accents she had heard during her own time in the South. Monroe worked diligently on the hillbilly twang, speaking quite differently than in her other movies, and subverted her natural singing talent to make it painfully clear that Chérie was not gifted in that department. See more »
Goofs Although several sequences were indeed filmed in Phoenix, Arizona, involving a 1956 rodeo and rodeo parade, non-rodeo scenes supposedly depicting downtown Phoenix and Cherie's boardinghouse were clearly shot elsewhere; no major thoroughfare in Phoenix has hilly terrain or Victorian-style buildings seen in film. See more »
Movie Connections Edited into Myra Breckinridge (1970). See more »
Soundtracks The Bus Stop Song See more »
Crazy Credits And Introducing / Don Murray See more »
Quotes Cherie: I hate you and I despise you! Now give me back my tail!
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