Monroe was next to star in a television adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's short story Rain for NBC, but the project fell through as the network did not want to hire her choice of director, Lee Strasberg.
Monroe melanjutkan kariernya dalam adaptasi televisi dari cerita pendek W. Somerset Maugham Rain untuk NBC, namun proyek tersebut kandas karena jaringannya tak ingin mengambil pilihan sutradaranya, Lee Strasberg.