Bus Stop is a 1956 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Joshua Logan for 20th Century Fox, starring Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell, Betty Field, Eileen Heckart, Robert Bray, and Hope Lange.
Theatrical release poster by Tom Chantrell
Drive-in advertisement from 1956
From left to right: Eileen Heckart, Marilyn Monroe and Don Murray
Marilyn Monroe was an American actress and model. Known for playing comic "blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as an emblem of the era's sexual revolution. She was a top-billed actress for a decade, and her films grossed $200 million by the time of her death in 1962. Long after her death, Monroe remains a pop culture icon. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked her as the sixth-greatest female screen legend from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Monroe in 1953
Monroe as an infant, c. 1927
Monroe with her first husband, James Dougherty, c. 1943–44. They married when she was 16.
A photo of Monroe taken by David Conover in June 1945 at the Radioplane Company