“The Misfits” is one of the saddest, melancholy movies made.
The 3 leads, Monroe, Gable and Clift, would be dead within a matter of years.
Montgomery Clift committed the longest suicide in Hollywood history, drinking himself to death.
Clark Gable had a fatal heart attack just a few days after “The Misfits” wrapped, some blame crash dieting, he lost 40 lbs, or perhaps his macho
insistence on doing his own stunts, especially roping wild horses in the high country in an around Washoe County, Nevada.
Marilyn Monroe died 2 years later in August 1962 of a drug overdose. Some blame Arthur Miller’s hand written notes on her “Misfits” script.
Miller(husband/screenwriter) wrote that he was “embarrassed” by her in front of his intellectual friends and disgusted with her neurotic episodes.
From heretofore, “I will take care of myself for that’s all I really have and as I see it now have ever had”.
Gable was Monroe’s childhood screen idol. As a child, she claimed Gable was her father.
The fade out for both. Their last film.