quiz question: who's last movie was The Misfits?
I answered Marilyn, only to be told that it was Clark!
Was it our girl, or was it Clark, or perhaps both?
I seem to recall that MM died before the movie was completed, maybe Clark died afterwards without making another movie.
Can any of you buffs out there give me piece of mind?
It was the last appearance for both Marilyn and Gable. Marilyn began another film, "Something's Got to Give," but was fired, rehired, and then died before it was completed.
shareTCM gave a great introduction to the film, as usual. I believe they said Clark Gable died 3 months after filming ended, but before the release. Then Marilyn Monroe died like a year and a month after filming ended.
Even though Montgomery Clift lasted a little longer, he was in poor health during the movie. You can really see the unhealthiness in his face during the phone booth scene when he had a close up. He looked slighly feverish and unwell to me.
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Gable died in November 1960, before The Misfits was released. Marilyn Monroe never had another film released, so it's her last one, too.
Clift had always flirted wth pills and alcohol, but became addicted to painkillers and booze after his near-fatal car crash in 1956 while making Raintree County. The accident destroyed his looks and the left side of his face was paralyzed. He lived another ten years, but sadly he looks like walking death in many of the films he made in the last ten years of his life.
That telephone scene is brilliant acting, but nowadays I just listen to it. It's very hard to watch a man who seems to be in such pain.
There isn't anyone left now from The Misfits except Eli Wallach, who is now 90, but still working on a fairly regular basis. (He's one of my favorite character actors.)
Yeah, the phone booth scene could be interpreted as either psychological pain or physical pain, depending on your point of view. I agree it was great acting, it sucks you in. The way good acting should.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
<<There isn't anyone left now from The Misfits except Eli Wallach>>
And Kevin McCarthy, also in his 90's, and also still working.
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it definitly was clark gables last film and the last film that marilyn completed...
shareIt was Clark Gable's final film. He died a few days after it was finished. Monroe died while trying to resume filming on "Something's Got To Give".
She did complete "The Misfits" though. And I believe Montgomery Clift died about 5 years after Misfits....
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The Misfits is a great name for the movie...
the 3 main actors were just about on their last downward spiral.
Along with Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe..
it was one of the last movies for Montgomery Clift,.
because Judgement at Numemburg was released in 1961 same year as Misfits,
The last 2 films he did, Dr Freud and some movie made in France,
was the last of his movies too.(he died in '66)
The movie was a real yawner anyways..
boring people,
stupid dialog..they keep running it on the Western Channel like it
was something profound.
Even Marilyn Monroe hated the part and her husband Arthur Miller
wrote it for her! no wonder she divorced him!
Many posters were right! Clark died shortly after filming ended. Marilyn lived for another two years but never finished another film. Monty did three more movies and died six years later. MM loved the original script that Arthur wrote but Huston drastically changed the script and Monroe ended up hating it. It was nothing like what Arthur wrote for her years earlier. Regardless, she was brilliant in this role.
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