“The moment Marilyn Monroe walks into the hotel of Don’t Bother to Knock – we are enthralled... a heartbreaking portrait”
Pilot Jed Towers (Richard Widmark) encounters the beautiful Nell Forbes (Marilyn Monroe) while staying at a hotel in New York City. Jed pursues Nell, initially thinking she's a woman of means, but comes to learn that she is actually a babysitter when her child charge, Bunny Jones (Donna Corcoran), interrupts a conversation between the two. Soon Jed becomes worried about Nell's mental stability when it appears the woman is physically threatening Bunny. One of Marilyn Monroe's earliest dramatic roles and tinged with elements of film noir (Elisha J Cook plays an elevator operator) this is film ripe for rediscovery.
