Niagara (film) compatibility problems with "three-strip" but not with Eastmancolor). Monroe was given first billing in "Niagara" which elevated her to star status. Her following two films of that year, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", with Jane Russell, and "How to Marry a Millionaire", with Betty Grable and Lauren Bacall, were even bigger successes. Ray and Polly Cutler (Showalter and Peters), on a delayed honeymoon at Niagara Falls, find their reserved cabin occupied by George and Rose Loomis (Cotten and Monroe). Rose tells them that George is asleep and has recently been discharged from an Army mental hospital after his war service in Korea.
Ben Nye Ben Nye Benjamin Emmet "Ben" Nye, Sr. (January 12, 1907 – February 9, 1986) was an American makeup artist for the Hollywood film industry for over four decades, from the 1930s to the early 1980s. He worked on over five hundred 20th Century Fox films both in and out of Hollywood. Including "Gone with the Wind" (1939), "Miracle on 34th Street" (1947), "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (1953), "The King and I" (1956), "The Fly" (1958), "Valley of the Dolls" (1967), and "Planet of the Apes" (1968). His brother was actor Carroll Nye, best remembered today as Frank Kennedy, Scarlett O'Hara's second