Marilyn: a fountain of charm, and a cyclone of beauty!
Hollywood's glamor doll, Marilyn Monroe, was blonde and beautiful... We heard her speak in that tiny tinkle voice...She was our angel, the sweet angel of sex, and the sugar of sex came up from her like a resonance of sound in the clearest grain of a violin... She was a perfect creation reached to the horizon of our mind, a fountain of charm, a cyclone of beauty, a sexual oven whose fire may rarely have been lit...
"Niagara" is her first starring films and she was a presence in it... She knew how to enter every scene with the full aura of an out man-killer wearing suits fitted so tightly as to make every walk a miracle...
She gives a twisting and winding performance... A 'veiled look' would come into her eyes when thinking of her adulterous lover that makes the audience hate her while admiring every possible curve revealing her tight dresses, caught with excellent taste by Hathaway... She was more vivid with commitment, just interesting enough to be fascinating... Even her wiggle walks down a long street in a beige-colored suit (a modern miracle of the designer's art) were highly seductive...
The film makes full use of the breathtaking locations as of the grandeur of Marilyn... She plays a sexy wife plotting to murder her obsessed husband...
We must admit that the scenic effects (a natural wonder of beauty and majesty), superbly photographed in Technicolor, are the main attraction... Nevertheless the intriguing murder mystery heightens the drama making it a strong combination of menace ... Joseph Cotten's intelligent face and resonant voice are used effectively in this tale of infidelity and greed... Comedy relief, from the happy honeymooners, Casy Adams and Jean Peters with these lines: "Why don't you ever get a dress like that?"//"Well, she sure got her an armful of groceries."
We hear Marilyn singing only one song (too important in the plot) called "Kiss" - a song enough to turn her husband crazy...
score 9/10
Nazi_Fighter_David 30 July 2000
Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw0049848/35513
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