She""s got a sister in Chicago and she""s gone there for the holiday...(His parents) they""re not together, sir.We haven""t seen him now in a long time.It also is Plato""s birthday and his absentee parents have forgotten about him - they are not around to celebrate: "I don""t think it""s right for a mother to go away and leave her child on his birthday.For example:- "What do you hicks do around here for kicks?"- "The roses grow.People get married.Crazy as anyplace else."- "What about TV? Do ya like TV?"- "Oh, pictures! No, no pictures.Everything these days is pictures.Pictures and a lotta noise.Nobody even knows how to talk.Just grunt at each other."Johnny engages Kathie in conversation in the restaurant, pressing her for a date that evening at a Carbonville dance, and an invitation to dance to the jukebox music.Later in the story, while Lige was rounding up stampeding wild horses with other ranchers, Roddy returned to Lige""s isolated cabin to assault he still-virginal Letty, who had been left alone and turned half-crazy due to the constantly howling, remorseless tempest wind.Grusinskaya""s (Greta Garbo) personal maid, relayed a message that the fragile, isolated, aging, sickly Russian prima ballerina performer wouldn""t be attending her dance rehearsal due to nervous exhaustion; the performer""s emotional state was threatening her career; reportedly, there was "something preying on her mind" and she couldn""t sleep; the possibly suicidal, forlorn dancer had taken a sleeping tablet (Veronal) o ease her "tortured" mindBaron Von Gaigern (John Barrymore), an indebted, financially-broke yet charming, sophisticated and suave gentleman, frantically phoned about needing money; he was plotting the theft of the ballerina""s jewels in the hotel by scoping out her room, and by becoming friends with her ballet master Pimenov (Ferdinand Gottschalk)In the lobby, world-weary house physician Dr.The year the film premiered, Miller""s marriage o Marilyn ended.The film reflected uncanny resemblances to Monroe""s own personal life.]It was derived from scriptwriter Arthur Miller""s own novelette (appearing in 1957 inEsquire Magazine), and from Milller""s first screenplay (written specifically for his wife Marilyn Monroe at the time, during their rocky marriage).