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Clash By Night (1952)

 

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For her 13th movie, the Fox Studios had rented Marilyn to the RKO.

It is quite possible that the reporter Sidney Skolsky persuaded the producer Jerry Wald to give a part to Marilyn in this movie, inspired from a Clifford Odets play, which had been played in Broadway.

Marilyn had read the play when she worked at the Actors Lab. For the first time, she was about to come out of secretary or pretty blondes parts in which until then, she was confined.

The shooting took place in Monterrey, California (,,), and was a true ordeal for the director, Fritz Lang. He didn't abide all Marilyn's demands and particularly Natasha Lytess presence (that Marilyn had imposed to help her to express the best of the part). who anticipated his directives. But with Marilyn, they found a compromise and the shooting could go on.

In the publicity preceding the film release, the RKO used largely Marilyn's anecdote, the little girl at the orphanage, looking to the studios through the window, dreaming of better days. But the nude calendar scandal broke : it gaves the movie a huge free publicity and made Marilyn a star.

 

The movie was produced by Harriet Parsons, Louella Parsons sister, one of the most important Hollywood journalist.

Shooting

At the fish store 

with other actors

                      
off set                              

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White blouse 

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Tank top 

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Lace top and black skirt 

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with the crew --

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White terry cloth top 

with Keith Andes 

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Black bathsuit 

with Keith Andes  

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with Robert Ryan

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White polo shirt 

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Grey polo shirt ,,

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Striped dres

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Black checked dress 

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Publicity pictures 

striped blouse 

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black lace dress ,,;,

     

black bathsuit                                                   

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Costumes tests

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CREDIT

Wald-Krasna Productions Inc., RKO Radio Pictures, Black & White.

Runtime : 105 mn.

Release date : June 18, 1952.

 

Director : Fritz Lang.

Producer : Harriet Parsons.

Script : Alfred Hayes, from a play of Clifford Odets.

Director of photography : Nicholas Musuraca.

Music : Roy Webb.

Film editing : George J. Amy.

 

CAST

Barbara Stanwyck - Mae Doyle D'Amato

Paul Douglas - Jerry D'Amato

Robert Ryan - Earl Pfeiffer

Marilyn Monroe - Peggy

J. Carrol Naish - Uncle Vince

Keith Andes -Joe Doyle

Silvio Minciotti - Papa D'Amato

Diane Stewart - baby

Deborah Stewart - baby

Roy D'Armour - man

Gilbert Frye - man

Nancy Duke - guest

Sally Yarnell - guest

Irene Crosby - guest

Helen Hansen - guest

Dan Bernaducci - guest

Dick Coe - guest

Al Cavens - guest

Julius Tannen - waiter

William Bailey - waiter

Bert Stevens - bartender

Mario Siletti - bartender

Bill Slack - customer

Art Dupuis - customer

Frank Kreig - art

Tony Dante - fisherman.

 

TECHNICAL CREW

C. Bakaleinikoff -  music director

Mel Berns - make-up

Carroll Clark - art direction

Albert S. D'Agostino - directeur artistique

Larry Germain - hairdresser

Jack Mills - set decoration

Clem Portman - sound

Darrell Silvera - set decoration

Jean L. Speak - sound

Harold E . Wellman -  special effects

Michael Woulfe - costumes

Jack Baker - co-songwriter of "I Hear a Rhaspody"

Joe Gasparre - co-songwriter of "I Hear a Rhaspody"

 

SYNOPSIS

After several years of absence, Mae Doyle (Barbara Stanwyck) comes back in her native town. Her brother Joe (Keith Andes), in love with Peggy (Marilyn Monroe), employed in a fish cannery, doesn't really appreciate her return. Mae gets to know Jerry (Paul Douglas), manager of a dragger, whom kindness and simplicity attract her.

They get married and have a little girl. Jerry's friend, Earl (Robert Ryan), projectionist in a local cinema, seduces Mae and they have an affair together. Mae decides to leave her husband.

First Jerry refuses to believe that his wife is cheating on him but when Mae admits the truth, he leaves and searches Earl, fights with him and leaves him unconscious. He takes the child on his boat and goes to the open sea.

Earl tries to convince Mae to escape with him and to abandon the child. Mae realizes that Earl only thinks of him and that her place is next to the man she loves, Jerry. She asks forgiveness to her husband and begs him to live together again. Jerry forgives and so the peace is back in the home.

 

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