Drugs?

i dont think she was pregnant at the time. she was barely speaking to Miller

I dont think she appeared drugged on screen. Her acting was not great but i think that was due to nothing more than trying to find her way into this character.

Clift was perfect. dont know what you are talking about op

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are you kidding me? i thought she looked the best in this film than she did in any other.

obviously the woman was drugged out during the film, but i still think she did a wonderful job. she's supposed to be a breezy, distracted, unsure woman, trying to get her bearings in a completely new situation. if anything, i think being stoned made it easier to portray.

maybe i'm just biased. i freakin love monroe.

Out of shape? What does that even mean? Some people's criticism of movies boggles my mind, oh well.

Hollywood used to create, now they just destroy.

Out of shape!?!

She never looked younger or fresher. Remember she's playing an ex-stripper and the 50's stripper stereotype is "a little dozy, simple and sexy." Albiet, not much of a reach for marilyn but she owned at vunerable. Instead of acting, she was re-acting the entire film. Just as it should be. (I'm still in shock over the reply that they filmed in B&W to cover her bloodshot eyes! Trust me, if I could buy Visine in the sixties, so could she. Colour film is often distracting and if you want the focus on the players or the story, nothing sorts that like black and white.)

I disagree. I don't especially like or dislike MM, but I found that Huston got the best out of her in "The Misfits". Stoned she was perhaps, but not out of it nor looking absent or haggard. This is obvious from the emotions that she carries, expresses and makes believable to us and for us. A drugged-out actress would not be able to pull that out, Method or no Method. As many critics have said, MM had reached a certain point where she could be considered as a good actress - not exceptional, not with an exceptional range, but competent. I truly think that MM's interpretation in this movie is nothing short of breast-taking, I mean breath-taking (sorry, could not resist: that's what being the sexiest bipedal creature that ever lived since photography was invented.

Another good test of how competent MM's playing was in "The Misfits" comes from the fact that although Clark Gable showed how deep an actor he could be with this movie (his acting having been underestimated or unappreciated to its true value previously), although he shone in many scenes, never his performance eclipsed Marilyn's. Which is clearly what would have happened if she had acted poorly in this one, Instead, both stars nourish the plot and the drama that unfold before our eyes without leaving either one of the two interpreters seem eclipsed or shrunken due to the other's part.

So if only drugs could help her carry on during that period, blessed are the "dolls" for allowing us to have that gem of a movie. I'm certainly not one who will condemn or judge anybody for the use of drugs. There are myriads of reasons why a person may use them, and more often than not, prescription drugs improve one's health or ability to thrive. And if drugs helped someone as troubled as MM to survive to heavy hardship, that's something we should recognize instead of condemning the actress altogether for any drug abuse she had.

I'm not a specialist of MM's bio, but the little I know is that her mental fragility almost inevitably led her to a dead end in which personal, professional and even political intermingled like an inextricable labyrinth from which she had no chance of escaping but via the only exit she could find. Blaming the drugs or drug abuse here leads nowhere: one has to examine the medical, psychiatric, emotional and actual problems which led her to find solace in them.

Blaming MM's drug use for everything is like blaming the hand that held the gun instead of the murderer for a crime.

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Not to bicker, but you do realize that she was supposed to be quite drunk in that scene, and he had just received a significant head trauma, plus had been drinking. I'm not saying that there were no drugs involved, but they are supposed to seem out-of-it.

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Yes, this airhead of a blonde who specialized in idiotic romantic comedies was "embarrassed" by this thoughtful, complex - if not flawless - material she´d been given by the likes of Miller & Huston. Indeed.

And btw, on the topic of Monroe, I think her opening scene where she was unsuccessfully trying to memorize some lines for the court, was quite obviously poking fun at MM herself and her notoriously poor memory on film sets. Wonder why she didn´t object to such open ridicule... sure, she wasn´t exactly the brightest bulb to have roamed the earth, but are we supposed to believe she was ´this´ dense as to not get the reference?



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