Cowboys Beauregard Decker and Virgil Blessing attend a rodeo in Phoenix, where Decker falls in love with beautiful cafe singer Cherie. He wants to take Cherie back to his native Montana and marry her, but she dreams of traveling to Hollywood and becoming famous. When she resists his advances, Decker forces Cherie onto the bus back to Montana with him, but, when the bus makes an unscheduled stop due to bad weather, the tables are turned.

Marilyn Monroe
as Cherie

Don Murray
as Beauregard 'Bo' Decker

Arthur O'Connell
as Virgil Blessing

Betty Field
as Grace

Eileen Heckart
as Vera

Robert Bray
as Carl

Hope Lange
as Elma Duckworth

Hans Conried
as Life Magazine Photographer

Max Showalter
as Life Magazine Reporter

Linda Brace
as Evelyn (uncredited)
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In her prime, which because of her death at any early age was all of her cinematic life, Monroe was a gorgeous force of nature very much underappreciated in her thespianism. Once I adjusted to Logan's directional style and to the rodeo and fish-out-of-water concepts, I really laid back and enjoyed t...