Chicago Tribune, Wednesday, March 16, 1955, pt. 3, p. 6, c. 1:
LOOKING AT HOLLYWOOD
by Hedda Hopper
Buddy Adler has been handed "Bus Stop," successful New York play, to put on the screen, and 20th is talking now of using the star of the play, Kim Stanley, in the picture. . . .
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Bus Stop without Marilyn is no Bus Stop at all!
Interesting. I don't think Stanley would've fared well as Cherie on the screen. I saw a clip of her performing the role on Broadway and in the close-ups she looked haggard and had bags under her eyes, and it was in black and white. In Technicolor, they would've been more prominent. Though she was a year older than Marilyn, she looked at least a decade her senior.
Incidentally, she gets a lot of praise for her Marilyn-inspired performance in The Goddess -- Jessica Lange has said it's the best performance captured on film -- but i thought she was miscast. Stanley was not a pretty nor sexy woman, so she was not very convincing as a sexy symbol.
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I've seen Stanley's BUS STOP clips, and having just seen some of MM's scenes in the film, I'll wager she saw Stanley's taped performance as well.
"In my case, self-absorption is completely justified."
MM gave a much more delicate performance than Stanley. The latter, by the way, approached Monroe at the Actors Studio and told her, "You were better than me!" (Not that Kim didn't have some residual resentment--how else to explain her participating in "The Goddess?")
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