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A Ticket to Tomahwak (1950)

Posters , 

With the advice of her agent Johnny Hyde, Marilyn obtained a small part in this musical, kind of western.

In costumes of this era, she was one of the four music-hall dancers who danced and sang "Oh, What a Forward Young Man!".

Marilyn shot on August, September and October 1949. End of the shooting on October 21, 1949.

It was her first movie for the Fox since the studio hadn't renewed her contract, in 1947.

The outdoor shoots were taken in Durango, Colorado.

Several years later, Marilyn would work again with actor Dan Dailey in "There's No Business Like Show Business" (1954).

Production


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Timble Hot Springs in Durango, September 1949 

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CREDITS

Twentieth Century-Fox, Technicolor.

Running time : 90 minutes.

Release : May 19, 1950.

Director : Richard Sale.

Producer : Robert Bassler.

Screenplay : Mary Loos, Richard Sale (,).

Photography Operator : Harry Jackson 

Music : Cyril J.Mockridge

Costumes : René Hubert

Montage : Harmon Jones

CAST

Dan Dailey - Johnny

Anne Baxter - Kit Dodge Jr

Rory Calhoun - Dakota

Walter Brennan - Terence Sweeny

Charles Kemper - Chuckity

Connie Gilchrist - Madame Adélaïde

Arthur Hunnicutt - Sad Eyes

Will Wright - Dodge

Chief Yowlachie - Pawnee

Mauritz Hugo - Dawson

Chief Thundercloud - Crooked Knife

Victor Sen Yung - Long Time

Raymond Greenleaf - Maire

Harry Carter - Charley

Harry Seymour - Velvet Fingers

Marion Marshall - Annie

Joyce MacKenzie - Ruby

Marilyn Monroe - Clara

Barbara Smith - Julie

Jack Elam - Fargo

Edward Clark (non credited)

Charles Stevens (non credited)

TECHNICAL CREW

George W. Davis - art director 

Lyle R.Wheeler - art director

SYNOPSIS

The story took place in 1876.

Dawson owns a stage-coach company and feas that his firm doesn't last a lot if "Engine One", a railway engine named by Emma Swenney, reaches its destination (Tomahawk, Colorado) on time.

His handy man, a gangster from Dakota, tries to make the train derailed; he runs afoul of Marshall Dodge, then, once this one is wounded, to his grand-daughter, Kit.

Marilyn belongs to a colorful group of passengers making this bustling journey; she is Clara, member of a music-hall company hired to produce in Tomahawk. On the way, she performs a dancing and singing show, "Oh, What a Forward Young Man!" (written by Ken Darby and John Read), with the other dancers.

The sabotage attempt fails, and the Good wins to the Bad when the Indians unexpectidely comes to the rescue.

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