course is quite a bit farther off center. After fingering all the perfume and soaps and jewelry in the place, she stares out the window at a man in another room of the same hotel. On the house phone they strike up a conversation. He (Richard Widmark) is an airline pilot who has just had a fight with his girlfriend, the thrush -- the cabaret singer -- in the bar and lounge downstairs. This glamorous young woman is played by an actress who in that year must have been 20 years old (Monroe was 25 ...
