Don't Bother to Knock > Overview - AllMovie

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"Sex symbol Marilyn Monroe went dramatic in 1952's Don't Bother to Knock. Monroe plays Nell Forbes, a beautiful but suicidal young woman, recently released from a mental institution. She doesn't mention this on her resumé when she takes a baby-sitting job in a posh hotel.

Jed Towers (Richard Widmark), a hotel guest, tries to make time with Nell after his own girlfriend, played by Anne Bancroft, has told him to take a hike.

As Nell and Jed neck on the couch, the little girl whom Nell is tending (Donna Corcoran) surprises the spooning couple.

This drives the psychotic Nell over the edge, forcing Jed to try to keep the baby-sitter from killing both herself and the child."

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Movie Review - The Lady Vanishes - THE LADY VANISHES - NYTimes.com

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"A lady vanishes on a train. One moment she was sitting there, plump, matronly, reading a needlework magazine, answering to the name and description of Miss Froy, governess, London-bound from the Tyrol. The next, she was gone. And the young woman in the compartment, awakening from her doze, was solemnly assured by her neighbors that they had seen no Miss Froy. A brain specialist aboard suggests that Miss Froy was a hallucination induced by the blow she had received when a flower box fell on her head at the station."

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