name | The Misfits |
---|---|
director | John Huston |
producer | Frank E. Taylor |
writer | Arthur Miller |
starring | Clark GableMarilyn MonroeMontgomery CliftThelma RitterEli WallachKevin McCarthyJames Barton |
music | Alex North |
cinematography | Russell Metty |
editing | George Tomasini |
distributor | United Artists |
released | |
runtime | 124 minutes |
country | |
language | English |
budget | $4 million |
gross | }} |
Director Huston gambled and drank, and occasionally fell asleep on the set. The production company had to cover some of his gambling losses. His lover Marietta Peabody Tree had an uncredited part. Miller wrote new pages throughout the shoot, revising the script as the concepts of the film developed.
Monroe was sinking further into alcohol and prescription drugs. Huston shut down production in August 1960 to send Monroe to a hospital for detox. Close-ups after her release were shot using soft focus. Monroe was nearly always late to the set, sometimes not showing up at all. She spent her nights learning lines with drama coach Paula Strasberg. Monroe's confidant and masseur, Ralph Roberts, was cast as an ambulance attendant in the film's rodeo scene.
Gable insisted on doing his own stunts, including being dragged about 400 feet across the dry lake bed at more than 30 miles per hour.
In a documentary about the making of The Misfits, Wallach told a story of Huston directing a scene where Wallach was at a bar with Gable. Huston told him that the most intoxicated he had ever been was the day before, even though he had seemed sober. The lesson for the actors was that an intoxicated person tries to act sober.
1930's Western actor Rex Bell (who was married to Clara Bow) made his final film appearance in a brief cameo as a cowboy. Bell was Lieutenant Governor of Nevada at the time.
Thomas B. Allen was assigned to create drawings of the film as it was made. Magnum Photos had staff photographers including Inge Morath and Eve Arnold assigned to document the making of The Misfits.
During production, the cast's principals stayed at the Mapes Hotel in Reno. Film locations included the Washoe County Court House on Virginia Street and Quail Canyon, near Pyramid Lake. The bar scene where Monroe plays paddle ball and the rodeo scenes were filmed in Dayton, Nevada, northeast of Carson City. The climax of the film takes place during wrangling scenes on a Nevada dry lake 20 miles east of Dayton, near Stagecoach. The area today is known as "Misfits Flat".
Filming was completed on November 4, 1960 and The Misfits was released on February 1, 1961.
There were high expectations, given the star power of the writer, director and stars. Producer Frank E. Taylor had heralded The Misfits as "the ultimate motion picture" before its release.
The Misfits was met with mixed reviews and failed to meet expectations at the box office. Despite being shot in black and white, the final cost was about $4 million. It was said to be the most expensive black-and-white film made to that point in time. Its original domestic gross was just over its estimated budget of $4,000,000, making $4,100,000 in its initial USA release. It has brought larger profits to United Artists since its release on DVD.
The film has a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 13 reviews.
Montgomery Clift had been badly injured in an automobile accident in 1956 that required reconstructive surgery on his face, evident in his close-ups in The Misfits. He died six years after the filming. The Misfits was on television on the night Clift died. His live-in personal secretary, Lorenzo James, asked Clift if he wanted to watch it. "Absolutely not" was Clift's reply, the last words that he spoke to anyone. He was found dead the next morning, having suffered a heart attack during the night.
Thelma Ritter enjoyed several more movie successes before passing away eight years after the movie was made. Eli Wallach and Kevin McCarthy went on to movie and stage careers that extend into the 21st century. Wallach, a nonagenarian, is the last surviving primary cast member.
Inge Morath of Magnum Photos married Arthur Miller in 1962; their union lasted 40 years until her death in 2002.
The documentary The Legend of Marilyn Monroe (1966) includes footage shot while The Misfits was being made. Miller's autobiography, Timebends (1987), described the making of the film. The 2001 PBS documentary, Making The Misfits, did the same. Miller's last play, Finishing the Picture (2004), although fiction, was largely based on the events involved in the making of The Misfits.
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