Niagara Photo Gallery

Ife’s Old Mill was a popular “Speakeasy” in St. Davids, Ontario a few miles north of Niagara Falls. When Marilyn Monroe dined there in June of 1952, either she or her companion would have had to have had the Canadian Silver Dollar in the Leather Pouch to get in to well the known eatery.

When she was filming “Niagara”, it is known that Marilyn dined at Ife’s with Robert Slatzer and must have had the Silver Dollar in the Leather Pouch used to screen the A List clientele and protect the restaurant’s illegal service of alcohol. The Silver Dollar would be kept by Ife’s, however the Leather Pouch would be given back for use on a return visit with yet another Canadian Silver Dollar.

Marilyn and Oneida Silversmith’s Vice President Royce Sills draw the winning ticket for an Oneida Sterling Silver Dinner Service Set. As a token of appreciation the company also presented Marilyn with a similar Silver Dinner Service Set.

Jean Peters and Casey Adams (Polly and Ray Cutler) with Joseph Cotton (George Loomis) Marilyn’s Co-Stars in Niagara.

Marilyn poses with Tommy Thompson an area resident, who was cast in a bit part as a sailor.

Queen Victoria Park gardeners carefully removed a considerable amount of sod at Inspiration Point to make way for the construction of the Rainbow Cabins Motel (one of the sets for the film) sometime in May of 1952. The sod was stored and cared for in a warehouse and then returned to the park in late June of 1952.

Rainbow Cabins Motel was especially built for the filming of "Niagara." The motel set occupied a section of Queen Victoria Park overlooking the American Falls at a lookout area known as Inspiration Point.

At a cost of $26,000 the construction of the Rainbow Cabins Motel included 4 cabin frontages, one complete cabin and an office. The set was so realistic; that it concerned the local hotel sector and they protested against what they thought would be unfair competition. The structure was dismantled after the filming and the builder bought back the remnants.

Between takes while filming “Niagara” Marilyn poses for an admirer in Queen Victoria Park.

Joseph Cotton who Co-Starred with Marilyn and played George Loomis in Niagara, takes a break with the film’s director Henry Hathaway and Niagara Parks Commission General Manager – Maxim (“Max”) T. Gray (center).

In the midst of a conspiracy to run away from her husband with her lover, Rose Loomis (Marilyn) sweet talks her husband George (Joseph Cotton).

Rose Loomis (Marilyn) asks the disc jockey at a Rainbow Cabins get together to play “Kiss Me” Niagara’s theme song and the song that Rose shares with her lover (Richard Allan) as “their song”. Listening in their motel room the song enrages her husband George (Joseph Cotton). Beyond its use in the film, the soundtrack was never released commercially.

Rose Loomis (Marilyn) calls her lover (Richard Allan) and arranges a meeting and confirms plans to dispose of her husband George (Joseph Cotton).

Rose Loomis (Marilyn) and her lover (Richard Allan) meet at the Scenic Tunnels at the base of the Canadian Horseshoe Falls. Today the attraction hosts hundreds of thousands of visitors and is known as the Journey Behind the Falls.

Rose Loomis (Marilyn) in the lobby of the Scenic Tunnels meets the city’s Police Inspector (Denis O’Dea) and reports her husband George (Joseph Cotton) missing,

The chimes at the Carillon Tower play “Kiss Me”, which Rose (Marilyn) mistakenly believes to be her Lover’s (Richard Allan) signal that his mission to kill her husband has been accomplished. Anticipating the prospect of meeting her lover she decides to walk rather than accept a ride back to the motel from the Cutlers (Jean Peters and Casey Adams). Thus the “Longest Walk” in film history began.

Rose Loomis (Marilyn) on the “Longest Walk” and what she hopes will be a rendezvous with her lover (Richard Allan).

Police Inspector (Denis O’Dea) meets Rose (Marilyn) at the City Morgue. She’s there to identify the remains of her husband George (Joseph Cotton) and collapses in shock when she discovers the body is not her husband’s but her lover’s (Richard Allan). She then passes out and is hospitalized.

Joseph Cotton is made up to emulate the cuts and bruises condition of George Loomis as a result of the deadly struggle that he must have had with Rose’s (Marilyn) lover (Richard Allan).

Rose (Marilyn) at the Bus Terminal tries to get away from her husband George (Joseph Cotton). She knows he won’t forgive her for the conspiracy to kill him and her unfaithfulness.

Rose Loomis (Marilyn) hails a cab (Harry Carey Jr.) in a last ditch attempt to get away from her husband’s deadly revenge.

Marilyn and Joseph Cotton review the script for the scene in which Rose is trapped in the Carillon Tower and is strangled by her husband George. (Joseph Cotton).

Rose Loomis (Marilyn) tries to .escape the wrath of her husband George (Joseph Cotton) and becomes trapped in the Carillon Tower at the Canadian end of the Rainbow Bridge.

Marilyn and Joseph Cotton take a film break from the murder sequence in which for the first and only time in her career, Marilyn’s character (Rose Loomis) dies.

Polly Cutler (Jean Peters) is plucked by a helicopter from the treacherous upper Niagara Rive Rapids. The motor boat in which she had been abducted by George Loomis (Joseph Cotton) had run out of gas, gone over the falls and taken George Loomis to his death.

In "Niagara," Jean Peters played the 2nd female lead as Polly Cutler. Peters was born in 1926, the same year as Marilyn and included Marilyn in a small circle of friends. She married Howard Hughes at the age of 29.