Another one of my what's on tv on a Saturday morning movies. I like Marilyn Monroe just fine, even in all of her sexpot stereotyped questionable acting, but this one was a bit of a departure at least from the roles I'm used to seeing her in. She's still a sexpot. Hard to hide that. But here she's a down on her luck, dreamer of a "showgirl" in a tiny nowhere town who longs to go to Hollywood to really start her career--no one seems to have told her that she can't sing worth a damn. One week (or weekend?) a rodeo is in town--a big championship sort of rodeo--and a clueless cowboy, Bo, ventures off his ranch for the first time to compete. He's clueless about life in general, just taking whatever it is he wants in the loudest possible way, and even more clueless about women. He's looking for his "angel" whom he will presumably club over the head and drag back to his cave, er, ranch. Instead of finding a nice girl to be his "angel," he sets his sights on Cherie (which she pronounces as French as a Southern accent possibly can and which Bo pronounces "Cherry"). He immediately assumes she'll marry him regardless of her protestations to the contrary. Hilarity ensues, sort of. What's disturbing about this one [plot spoiler] is that as soon as Bo apologizes for his horrible treatment of her, Cherie agrees to marry him and give up all of her Hollywood dreams to go live on his ranch in the middle of nowhere.
I liked the movie well enough but the gender roles are disturbing and the implications questionable.
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