The Last of Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable

I guess young people don't really appreciate it, but for someone my age and older, it's really something amazing that two cultural and cinema icons, Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable share their last movie. It's the Misfits.

It's one of the movies I bought this visit in New York. Of course, I was too young to see it when it came out. In those days it was rather daring. Today it would be prime time kids. If today's PC parents had any objections it would be the rodeo and lassoing the wild horses.

Considering the range of roles Marilyn Monroe played, you have to be impressed. OK, she generally played someone not too bright, but very naive. She was good in comedy. There's nothing funny about this movie.

Clark Gable looks old, very old in it. He doesn't look much like Rhett Butler.

Although no one knew it at the time, “The Misfits” would be the last film ever made by Gable and the last one finished by Monroe. Three days after the movie wrapped in 1960, Gable suffered his fourth heart attack; 11 days later he was dead at the age of 59.

Less than two years later, Monroe was found dead at the age of 36 in her Brentwood, Calif., home, the victim of either a suicide, accidental overdose or, some still insist, a conspiracy. click for complete article

It's a very depressing movie.