@@cassandraadkison3036 Yes I think so...That is the Method system...Sure worked in Marilyn's case. So convincing. I always thought her acting was fine even in the early days before she studied method.
I wish all the people who think of Marilyn as the naked lady on red velvet or sewn into the Happy Birthday gown would watch this scene. When she was given good material, she was an incredible actor.
Exactly. She got caught up and they typecast her in her own created image/ or the studios created image for her. it can be hard not to become a caricature of yourself when you’re so well known for a type of image. It’s a shame, she’s talented and most people never saw beyond her sex symbol rep. When the director isn’t having her ham up the baby voice and act like an innocent / and perhaps sadly ditzy ingenue, she can act. it seems she had the life experience to play this scene unfortunately:( there’s nothing wrong with taking advantage of her obvious sex appeal, I just think from interviews she got sick of playing the same type of characters, she got bored with it and didn’t like being seen as only that and it seems like as she aged with her depression etc it was just one more thing to worry about, like, if you’re known as the hot girl, will Hollywood still have jobs for you as you get older? She tried to transition to more dramatic and more demanding roles, it’s sad that she was kind of pigeonholed into one aspect of herself like that, (I never met her obviously so I don’t know what she thought about this, I’m just going by her interviews.) i think she had more to offer, it’s a shame.
It’s a shame this movie didn’t get more attention. Clark gable had died a few months after they wrapped from a heart attack, critics didn’t give it much of a chance either. Weirdly when celebs die you’d think more people would go out to see their last project, but that wasn’t the case. It wasn’t a loss but it wasn’t huge either. Who knows exactly why. But it didn’t get as much attention as it seems IMO “deserves” (in comparison)unfortunately.
Gosh..the look on Marilyn's face when she asks "how do you just live?" ...the look, her voice, everything in those few seconds..i have never seen Marilyn that awesome! She was just perfect. God she could act! Bravo!
Such a beautiful and talented lady, but she was in a lot of emotional pain. You can just see the heartbreak in her eyes. We loss a true Angel from heaven in 1962.
@@BUBBLESPOGO This is facts Diane. I've couldn't have it explained better than you did. I think a lot of real ones can recognize themselves in her because they know what the real pain feels like. Peace to her soul.🙏🏿 🕊️ May she rest in peace.🙏🏿🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️.
Ah, what the comment meant is that she did not have to put effort into acting especially out of the ordinary because she, sadly, led a tragic life and these sufferings are naturally portrayed onscreen as well.
weird no one else mentions her highly idiosyncratic mannerism of silent lip movement at 4:47 , to me it is one of her greatest trademarks, she did it often in her movies,it is so subtle yet so expressive and unique and weird, i love it. it is almost as if she is about to say something or a brief surfacing of silent thoughts/ emotions. that and her way of momentarily making her eyes droopy, giving a dreamy mesmerising effect. she was a master of communicating emotion silently with the most subtle changes of expression. except i do not think she deliberately cultivated these 'techniques', i think she just knew instinctively how to immerse herself and become a character effortlessly without trying. after all she was highly intelligent.
@@marilynyadira I disagree. This was a quirk of hers even in real life. See, e.g., this video of her in Korea (obviously without any script to remember): ruclips.net/video/lHenu4naOEA/видео.html I think it was a form of internal energy and tension, part of her beauty, letting lose and tensing up constantly...
As a commediene, Marilyn was superb! A lot of actors admit making people laugh is harder than making them cry. She's a great actress, too bad Hollywood was too caught up with her image.
i love Thelma Ritter in this scene. She is so wonderfully empathetic with Monroe. She tries so persistently to bring her out of her funk. It is not often one sees a character that is simply kind.
Marilyn's character had a lot of her own life written into it. Health problems, troubled marriage, acting out elements of her life on screen... that's just too much at once imo. In this scene she's asked about her mother, and her expression and line about three months being a long time to a kid is heartbreaking.
Soon after the glittering premier of "The Misfits" in New York City (February 1961 - and Marilyn was trim and gorgeous!) the critics dismissed it as a "failure" - and the public stayed away in droves. The reason for the poor box-office receipts can be fully traced to the death of the film's big co-star (Clark Gable) who suddenly died of a heart attack just a few months earlier (just after the last "Misfits" scenes were filmed). Gable was a huge (and well-liked) Hollywood personality and the public never enjoyed being faced with its own mortality - then as now. Marilyn was brilliant and played "Roslyn" exactly as her then husband (Arthur Miller) had written: A scared, lonely, but determined woman - with a hopeful and (mostly!) optimistic look to the future. Perhaps Marilyn was playing "herself," but she deserves all the credit for being able to convey this on-screen. John Huston's understanding and use of the beautiful black-and-white cinematography is astounding in several key scenes. (A lost art in the Hollywood of today!) Hands down (!) this is my favourite Monroe film.
+John Jolson Yes, interesting perceptions. I think the critics were very wrong, being the film is so meaningful and beautiful. I think she was brilliant, too. I love the final scene in which she and Gable watch the mustangs run free. Art reflects the times and the human nature. You are right: sometimes the public cannot handle the truth.
Miller was a playwright and his movie was constructed as such. It is excellent. Moviegoers may not like the same writing tools as playgoers. Feel free to comment.
actually the box office was so so it wasn't REALLY a box office flop failure as many over the years have suggested and wrote.. it was so so but with let's make love being also the same not a box office flop failure but just so so but with these films back to back didn't help marilyn's career...NOW this film is considered a american classic, never mind it's money success or lack of...
I think Arthur Miller knew her well, so he created a character where she could showcase her sensitivity and acting charisma - this is a brilliant performance (her face at 4:33
She said she fell for him because he told her she was sensitive so he would want to emphasize that about her in a role though he somewhat exploited her too imo.
They said that she couldn't act, however in both movies, this one, and don't bother to knock, boy it was fantastic acting by her! RIP, Marilyn, Gable! ❤️
OMG Marilyn so magnificent in "The Misfits" clearly deserved The Oscar for this captivating tour-de-force performance, what were they thinking ignoring a once in a lifetime gifted artist, shameful Hollywood in the end were the losers...RIP amazing lady, your talent lives on
+Chris Blount I think so. I love the last scene in which she and Gable watch the mustangs run free! It says a lot. She is very beautiful in the dance scene! Long live MM!
This movie did not get the acclaim it deserves, some of the best performances from several class A actors, Ritter, Gable, Wallach, Clift and of course Monroe....Huston did a he'll of a job directing this in god awful heat and circumstances.And the depth of the black and white film goes on eternally,what s classic
When MM lived on 55th St in NYC, my dad would do her and AM's dry cleaning at DuBarry's.I was a kid then. I became interested in her life after she passed. AM wrote this movie for her even as they were separating. All of MM's dialogue relates to her life, as per AM. For me, this was really not acting by MM, but a sort of re-living her life to the cameras. MM indeed was a gifted actress.
Really sad that the serious roles she got were few . She is most remembered for Gentleman Prefer Blondes and the subway draft that lifted her dress up in Seven Year Itch
on this scene you could see how wonderful and sad she was ....She died before my birth , but this movie make me feel like to loose somebody that I love..
It’s so sad how she didn’t have sustaining, supportive and positive relationships with people. Poor Marilyn. She went through so much. I feel like if she dealt with this stuff decades later she could have gotten the help she needed and the medicine to help her with her depression… (I think she had some schitzo or maybe bipolar). I never used to be into her but for some reason I feel so connected her and I are a lot alike. Constant therapy and confidence boosters have helped me. And affirmations. I wish she had more ppl in her lane.
I've never seen "The Misfits" but this scene is really darn good. Marilyn's talking about her own real-life experiences here; her mother did abandon her regularly, and she didn't finish high school in reality either. She delivers her lines without a lot of the expected "Marilyn" attributes and seems real; I like that she's in emotional distress (so that you feel for her) but she's also together enough to say she's going to rent her own car, to be in control and not at the mercy of the men.
When you think that she wanted to be taken as a good actress and always had a coach on set with her! She didn’t need any coach, she was instinctively a great actress. But the damn coach made a living off of her lack of confidence to pay the bills. She should have said: you don’t need me or anybody. You’re perfect as you are.
Her coach controlled her finances, isolated her socially, put her in a home with mirrors everywhere and no company/visitors were permitted, she didn't have access to the money she made and was made the butt of many jokes in Hollywood, they even made her pose in a potato sack with the words "idaho" as as in I DA HO. It was a mockery of the fact she was kept poor and was nothing more than a "potato," or vegetable, a source of sustenance and when everyone had had their fill she was left with nothing but the potato sack, not near enough to buy nice clothing. She was even tricked into posing nude in exchange for dental work and was told the pictures wouldn't see the light of day and then Hefner built his smut empire on those stolen photos and bought the crypt next to her in the cemetery which is insulting and disgusting
this is a modern western cowboy film a bunch of slackers meet up in a bar, and the american adventure of a regular life goes from there, in just a few days a look in to that life style. One of my top 25 - 100 films to see.
eoselan7 you're right... i take it back this is a very well done movie and for my opinion her best acting performance out of any movie and actually better than most movies
In fact, though Miller said many times that Marilyn had never done a serious role before The Misfits, she had done several, including Don't Bother to Knock, Clash by Night, Niagara, and The Asphalt Jungle.
Four excellent performances all in one place. The difficulties and troubles of making "The Misfits" are well-known but I don't know what Marilyn thought about her own performance. I do know she thought the character of Roslyn was too sweet but I'm curious about what Marilyn thought of her work once it was complete.
Andrew Brendan I read many book about her and I think her husband wrote the character of Roslyn based on Marilyn and things Marilyn had said. Marilyn was disappointed in the role, but loved working with Clark n' Monty. I think it turned out very good and different for her. Not sure how she would have looked back on it. But I personally love this dark movie. I think it catches a bit of Marilyn's personality.
She didn't like her work in the movie, or the movie itself. She never thought much of the script. "Arthur could have written anything for me," she said, "and he wrote *this*." Her reasons were complicated, but one of them, as you correctly state, is that she considered Rosalyn less a real person and more a sentimental conceit. On the other hand, she didn't much like the script for Some Like It Hot either; she only did that movie because she and Miller needed the money. This one she did for Miller -- and of course it finished their marriage. Regardless, I love this movie, though I think she was right that the script needed work. I also think there are *five* excellent performances in The Misfits, but Thelma Ritter is so reliably good that it's easy to take her for granted. Of course, maybe Ritter was among your four.
Good point! Made that five excellent performances. Thelma Ritter was terrific. I'm so accustomed to thinking of the MM, CG, MC and EW and seeing pictures just of them that I wasn't thinking of Thelma Ritter but she deserves just as much recognition as the others. She was a superlative actress. I haven't seen a lot of her work but from what I've seen I'd say I liked her best in "Titanic". I remember especially: "Sure clouded up. Well, a word'll do it quicker'n than a hickory stick any day". (That may not be word-for-word but it's close!)
Thelma Ritter is quite good in this, as in everything she did, and tends to get overlooked. She elevated a lot of "side" roles to be better than they would have been with most anyone else. Check out "Pickup on South Street," in which she turns in an amazing performance.
i've always found it ironic that she was considered "aging out of the industry" and yet, i don't think she's ever looked more beautiful than in her final months.
Marilyn Monroe was and is the Greatest Star and will always be! MM had a difficult year" A prolonged shoot at 20th for her movie Lets Make Love were she had.a serious romance with co star Yves Montand that shattered her marriage to Arthur Miller. MM had agreed to star in the Misfits filmed in the heart of summer with only a week's break between Lets Make Love and the Misfits. John Huston directed this brilliant film-one of my favorite's-with co star Clark Gable and a great cast of Mont Clift, Thelma Ritter, and Eli Wallach. Arthur Miller wrote this film just for MM and they were estranged during the filming. Despite the stress or maybe because fit MM is Magnificent in this UA movie.
arthur miller thought it would be funny to give marilyn this character because he wrote it with her story and told her to play this part when she didn’t want too, he also wrote down in his diary horrible things about marilyn and said things like “i’m so embarrassed by her!” “i wish i never married her” and then marilyn suffered for. a miscarriage twice with him, and she was very depressed in the filming of this. if you look at behind the scenes photos or videos she was very upset, she was before but this was the worst time of her life. He got her involved in drugs and drinking, and then during the filming of The Misfits he married the photographer and had a baby with her less than a year later. I find that horrible, that he did all of this to hurt marilyn !
Miller was an total creep. Soon after this movie was made, he divorced her and married a photographer that he met on the set of this movie. When the new wife gave birth to a retarded boy, Miller had him put in an institution and refused to see him. Pure piece of crap.
"The Misfits" shows how Marilyn had grown as an actress. Who cares if it took hours for her to come to the set, or she flubbed her lines? The final product was magic.
What a cast , I remember watching this film when I was a kid on tv , I thought it was incredible, I didn’t know about all the mystery of the stars & director , I remember my dad just being entranced
Marilyn was simply brilliant in every way. Hard to imagine by today’s standards that anyone could argue that she’s not super talented. I’ll never get why no one ever gave Streisand or Brando the kind of hell she’s had to endure having to prove herself nonstop even after having delivered in movies like Don’t Bother to Knock, Niagara, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, There’s No Business Like Show Business or The Seven Year Itch in which she was stellar. Brandon and Streisand and countless others also played themselves most times. She wasn’t playing herself in Bus Stop. Her performance here was also absolutely great unlike the film. Marilyn seemed to magnify the raging cynicism and jealousy of most people. That being said her wig in The Misfits was a big no no.
Marilyn has a glowing effervescence that amounts to movie magic. It adds remarkably to the early 60s realism as in the beautiful, technicolor movies. All other actors too are at their sterling, black-and-white best. Fine direction and ensemble acting.
OK so a lot of people may disagree with me, but I actually believe Marilyn was an extraordinary actress far ahead of her time. She was TOO REAL for this time period of film acting where things were still quite melodramatic. Marilyn played things smaller and with more subtlety and I feel she would have REALLY hit her stride if she hadn't died so early. She just needed some heftier roles to show her range and critics/audiences would've truly seen her talent!
Marilyn was an amazing actress, it's sad nobody ever told her that. She spent her whole life never feeling validated or accomplished. Why do we feel that we need other's approval so much?
If only people would’ve seen this performance of hers, they’d have given her another golden globe nomination and maybe an Oscar nom too. She was so vulnerable. Quite melancholy too which is very rare to see especially from someone as iconic as her who made her living on comedy pictures. I find it quite fascinating to see her in a very different light. She was just pure perfection in films❤️!
What a delight! And this wonderful film had been ignored by Hollywood? Hollywood is really an ignorant place! So little place for ambitious movies... All those great actors including Marylin! This look, this voice, this face will never appear on the screen again... My goodness! She wasn't yet in the zenit of her career... There were so many wonderful movies to come...
This movie is so different than any of her other movies. To me it is like she isn't acting at all but just being herself. There is a sadness and resignation about her in this movie that is heartbreaking.
The Misfits wasn't a good movie, but it was good looking at Monroe, Gable and that Montgomery dude. I saw in a couple documentaries, Arthur Miller who wrote the script for Marilyn loosely based it on her life, and Marilyn hated the script, and basically ended their marriage. That Miller was a piece of work.
...I love me some MM but not gonna lie.....she didn't look her best here - Gable didn't look his best..it was filmed in black and white and quite frankly (as Amy Greene i believe has said) the script Miller wrote was a pile of crap that cast her in a negative light and she never should have done it. Now I know that's gonna ruffle some feathers - was her acting superb? Yes....but the story, the script, the vibe about it.....i think it was all happening at a super bad time in her life and that's all I can see when I view this. Imagine having one of the lowest points of your life personally on celluloid for all the world to see and as a remembrance that will last forever. Not to mention the fact that the asshole left his personal journal out for her to read that basically stated he made a mistake in marrying her and she was vapid and not "intellectual enough" for him.
my son had a dad that he look up to he know about NICK and he said to me that Nick mom you ever think he might be Nick is not the father Ha H A ha Nick is a friends of the family he said is that cool but l did say to my son l wish l did have one son from Nick but it did not happen and it well never happen
"I suddenly miss my mother..." That must have been the hardest line of her life to deliver.
Agreed her sadness didn't look like acting looked so real and I'm assuming it was very real.
@@cassandraadkison3036 Given what we know about her mother, I cannot help but feel this may have crossed into reality.
Yes I felt for her. Her childhood was so sad
@@cassandraadkison3036 Yes I think so...That is the Method system...Sure worked in Marilyn's case. So convincing. I always thought her acting was fine even in the early days before she studied method.
That line when she asked Marilyn if she had her mother, and then Marilyn cried, broke my heart. 😥
I wish all the people who think of Marilyn as the naked lady on red velvet or sewn into the Happy Birthday gown would watch this scene. When she was given good material, she was an incredible actor.
Barbra Streisand said she was one of her favorite actresses. She was a very good actress and one of a kind!
THANK YOU! YESSSSSS!
Exactly. She got caught up and they typecast her in her own created image/ or the studios created image for her. it can be hard not to become a caricature of yourself when you’re so well known for a type of image. It’s a shame, she’s talented and most people never saw beyond her sex symbol rep. When the director isn’t having her ham up the baby voice and act like an innocent / and perhaps sadly ditzy ingenue, she can act. it seems she had the life experience to play this scene unfortunately:( there’s nothing wrong with taking advantage of her obvious sex appeal, I just think from interviews she got sick of playing the same type of characters, she got bored with it and didn’t like being seen as only that and it seems like as she aged with her depression etc it was just one more thing to worry about, like, if you’re known as the hot girl, will Hollywood still have jobs for you as you get older? She tried to transition to more dramatic and more demanding roles, it’s sad that she was kind of pigeonholed into one aspect of herself like that, (I never met her obviously so I don’t know what she thought about this, I’m just going by her interviews.) i think she had more to offer, it’s a shame.
It’s a shame this movie didn’t get more attention. Clark gable had died a few months after they wrapped from a heart attack, critics didn’t give it much of a chance either. Weirdly when celebs die you’d think more people would go out to see their last project, but that wasn’t the case. It wasn’t a loss but it wasn’t huge either. Who knows exactly why. But it didn’t get as much attention as it seems IMO “deserves” (in comparison)unfortunately.
@@laurawilloughby4000 But was acclaimed in retrospective reviews.
Gosh..the look on Marilyn's face when she asks "how do you just live?" ...the look, her voice, everything in those few seconds..i have never seen Marilyn that awesome! She was just perfect. God she could act! Bravo!
Misty Lake I agree. It baffles me when people say that Marilyn couldn't act or sing.
@@shannamartinez9494+ That's the thing. She didn't have to act in this scene. She was speaking from the heart. ❤
Marilyn was sheer magic on the screen in so many movies, in The Misfits depth of her performance incredibly moving...she takes you there
The slight lifting of her eyebrow. Pure perfection 🤩
God I can't get over how pretty Marilyn is in this scene. There's something almost supernatural about it.
Relax
It's because she became a myth recognized worldwide. Moreover it's a classical film, which makes it immemorial
That she was......supernatural
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Great description, nobody compares to the wonderous legendary icon who owned the silver screen, Marilyn could do it all...
Such a beautiful and talented lady, but she was in a lot of emotional pain. You can just see the heartbreak in her eyes. We loss a true Angel from heaven in 1962.
@@BUBBLESPOGO This is facts Diane.
I've couldn't have it explained better than you did.
I think a lot of real ones can recognize themselves in her because they know what the real pain feels like.
Peace to her soul.🙏🏿 🕊️
May she rest in peace.🙏🏿🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️.
She was a good actress, and as a woman she was stunning
She was a very good actress 😉
@Carolina1 then why are you here?
She doesn't really have to act much to do this scene.
Ikr💔
Ah, what the comment meant is that she did not have to put effort into acting especially out of the ordinary because she, sadly, led a tragic life and these sufferings are naturally portrayed onscreen as well.
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It was really cruel for her to have to act this out-a lot of this was based on her life. She was great though-should have received an Oscar nom
why is that cruel. it’s what she’s always wanted. a serious role
Marilyn never looked more beautiful, stunning
weird no one else mentions her highly idiosyncratic mannerism of silent lip movement at 4:47 , to me it is one of her greatest trademarks, she did it often in her movies,it is so subtle yet so expressive and unique and weird, i love it. it is almost as if she is about to say something or a brief surfacing of silent thoughts/ emotions. that and her way of momentarily making her eyes droopy, giving a dreamy mesmerising effect. she was a master of communicating emotion silently with the most subtle changes of expression. except i do not think she deliberately cultivated these 'techniques', i think she just knew instinctively how to immerse herself and become a character effortlessly without trying. after all she was highly intelligent.
Good eye. i often pick up on things like this but you found the right words to express exactly how it works
I think she did it to remember the next line and keep up with what was saying. I bet it was all loud in the background.
I love that all the comments on here are really understanding the method of her acting which is unbelievably phenomenal.
@@marilynyadira I disagree. This was a quirk of hers even in real life. See, e.g., this video of her in Korea (obviously without any script to remember): ruclips.net/video/lHenu4naOEA/видео.html I think it was a form of internal energy and tension, part of her beauty, letting lose and tensing up constantly...
“The last woman’s gone?”
Most beautiful girls are the loneliest.
Same for men.
As a commediene, Marilyn was superb! A lot of actors admit making people laugh is harder than making them cry. She's a great actress, too bad Hollywood was too caught up with her image.
i love Thelma Ritter in this scene. She is so wonderfully empathetic with Monroe. She tries so persistently to bring her out of her funk. It is not often one sees a character that is simply kind.
what does 'out of her funk' mean? Thnks.
eoselan7 agreed 100%
Ruple Thaker Out of her state of depression or distress.
I agree, Ritter should have one best supporting, this movie was highly underated....marilyn was brilliant, and gable was, well, gable...
I've always loved Thelma Ritter.
Marilyn's character had a lot of her own life written into it. Health problems, troubled marriage, acting out elements of her life on screen... that's just too much at once imo. In this scene she's asked about her mother, and her expression and line about three months being a long time to a kid is heartbreaking.
Soon after the glittering premier of "The Misfits" in New York City (February 1961 - and Marilyn was trim and gorgeous!) the critics dismissed it as a "failure" - and the public stayed away in droves. The reason for the poor box-office receipts can be fully traced to the death of the film's big co-star (Clark Gable) who suddenly died of a heart attack just a few months earlier (just after the last "Misfits" scenes were filmed). Gable was a huge (and well-liked) Hollywood personality and the public never enjoyed being faced with its own mortality - then as now. Marilyn was brilliant and played "Roslyn" exactly as her then husband (Arthur Miller) had written: A scared, lonely, but determined woman - with a hopeful and (mostly!) optimistic look to the future. Perhaps Marilyn was playing "herself," but she deserves all the credit for being able to convey this on-screen. John Huston's understanding and use of the beautiful black-and-white cinematography is astounding in several key scenes. (A lost art in the Hollywood of today!) Hands down (!) this is my favourite Monroe film.
+John Jolson Yes, interesting perceptions. I think the critics were very wrong, being the film is so meaningful and beautiful. I think she was brilliant, too. I love the final scene in which she and Gable watch the mustangs run free. Art reflects the times and the human nature. You are right: sometimes the public cannot handle the truth.
Pity you associate her with porn. I see a talented actor, lovely & adorable woman.
For me, she had a classic, romantic look and way about her. Her clothing was classy allure for me.
Miller was a playwright and his movie was constructed as such. It is excellent. Moviegoers may not like the same writing tools as playgoers. Feel free to comment.
actually the box office was so so it wasn't REALLY a box office flop failure as many over the years have suggested and wrote.. it was so so but with let's make love being also the same not a box office flop failure but just so so but with these films back to back didn't help marilyn's career...NOW this film is considered a american classic, never mind it's money success or lack of...
She always sounds engaging. Beautiful voice to match that face.
I think Arthur Miller knew her well, so he created a character where she could showcase her sensitivity and acting charisma - this is a brilliant performance (her face at 4:33
She said she fell for him because he told her she was sensitive so he would want to emphasize that about her in a role though he somewhat exploited her too imo.
Should have had a Oscar Nod for this phenomenal performance, riveting watching Marilyn every moment in The Misfits...
he was an asshole
@@melisagalvalizi6982 Who ?
They said that she couldn't act, however in both movies, this one, and don't bother to knock, boy it was fantastic acting by her! RIP, Marilyn, Gable! ❤️
God she looks exhausted. poor soul
She looks great.
@@brkitdwn Marilyn give an extraordinary rangy performance in The Misfits, shows how its done should have been Oscar Nominated and won!
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Wish I could go back in time and try to make her realise The Misfits is actually a very good, multi-layered movie that has garnered respect.
Such a pleasure seeing accomplished actors playing great material...
+Richard Hanna I totally agree.
She looked absolutely gorgeous in this scene
Stunning.
I love the rawness of her acting in these scene
OMG Marilyn so magnificent in "The Misfits" clearly deserved The Oscar for this captivating tour-de-force performance, what were they thinking ignoring a once in a lifetime gifted artist, shameful Hollywood in the end were the losers...RIP amazing lady, your talent lives on
And everyone thought this was her last film it was Something's Got To Give was her last film
Apart from of course the greatest moviestar ever, I so do like Thelma Ritter. With that thick, Brooklyn accent she could steal a scene completely!
She was really good in this film, even though the movie moves kind of slow.
+Chris Blount I think so. I love the last scene in which she and Gable watch the mustangs run free! It says a lot. She is very beautiful in the dance scene! Long live MM!
This movie did not get the acclaim it deserves, some of the best performances from several class A actors, Ritter, Gable, Wallach, Clift and of course Monroe....Huston did a he'll of a job directing this in god awful heat and circumstances.And the depth of the black and white film goes on eternally,what s classic
Clark Gable's last film - he didn't even get to see it before he passed away.
Marilyn Monroe's last film - she had about a year to live ......
When MM lived on 55th St in NYC, my dad would do her and AM's dry cleaning at DuBarry's.I was a kid then. I became interested in her life after she passed. AM wrote this movie for her even as they were separating. All of MM's dialogue relates to her life, as per AM. For me, this was really not acting by MM, but a sort of re-living her life to the cameras. MM indeed was a gifted actress.
"Re-living your life" for the camera still requires acting.
Really sad that the serious roles she got were few .
She is most remembered for Gentleman Prefer Blondes and the subway draft that lifted her dress up in Seven Year Itch
on this scene you could see how wonderful and sad she was ....She died before my birth , but this movie make me feel like to loose somebody that I love..
It’s so sad how she didn’t have sustaining, supportive and positive relationships with people. Poor Marilyn. She went through so much. I feel like if she dealt with this stuff decades later she could have gotten the help she needed and the medicine to help her with her depression… (I think she had some schitzo or maybe bipolar). I never used to be into her but for some reason I feel so connected her and I are a lot alike. Constant therapy and confidence boosters have helped me. And affirmations. I wish she had more ppl in her lane.
I've never seen "The Misfits" but this scene is really darn good. Marilyn's talking about her own real-life experiences here; her mother did abandon her regularly, and she didn't finish high school in reality either. She delivers her lines without a lot of the expected "Marilyn" attributes and seems real; I like that she's in emotional distress (so that you feel for her) but she's also together enough to say she's going to rent her own car, to be in control and not at the mercy of the men.
Superb acting from a most glamorous quartet of actors.
When you think that she wanted to be taken as a good actress and always had a coach on set with her! She didn’t need any coach, she was instinctively a great actress. But the damn coach made a living off of her lack of confidence to pay the bills. She should have said: you don’t need me or anybody. You’re perfect as you are.
Her coach controlled her finances, isolated her socially, put her in a home with mirrors everywhere and no company/visitors were permitted, she didn't have access to the money she made and was made the butt of many jokes in Hollywood, they even made her pose in a potato sack with the words "idaho" as as in I DA HO. It was a mockery of the fact she was kept poor and was nothing more than a "potato," or vegetable, a source of sustenance and when everyone had had their fill she was left with nothing but the potato sack, not near enough to buy nice clothing. She was even tricked into posing nude in exchange for dental work and was told the pictures wouldn't see the light of day and then Hefner built his smut empire on those stolen photos and bought the crypt next to her in the cemetery which is insulting and disgusting
She seemed like a great actress to me.
So sad it relates to her own life
"How do you just live?". He explains it tears in her eyes. " I know what you mean.".😥😥
It's bittersweet watching scenes like this knowing they're all gone now.
this is a modern western cowboy film a bunch of slackers meet up in a bar, and the american adventure of a regular life goes from there, in just a few days a look in to that life style. One of my top 25 - 100 films to see.
One of my favorite scenes in the saddest movie I've ever seen.
Marilyn Monroe, Clarke Gable and Eli Wallach 3 Hollywood legends in one movie fantabulastic
TheOfficialPhoenixTV *And Montgomery Clift ;)
Marilyn is just simply beautiful and looks sophisticated in that black dress.
Marilyn and animals together omg I'm in paradise 👌🏻❤️❤️
Yes those angelic energies together. Completely understood what you were saying
...you can't just stop looking at her. Amazing
this is my favorite performance of her... i love this movie and the acting was spot on! for the time this was beyond perfection
...for the time?! Try to find a movie made in the last ten years that can begin to touch the acting in the "Misfits."
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you're right... i take it back this is a very well done movie and for my opinion her best acting performance out of any movie and actually better than most movies
*i guess that was the only role where she appeared a little bit serious*
In fact, though Miller said many times that Marilyn had never done a serious role before The Misfits, she had done several, including Don't Bother to Knock, Clash by Night, Niagara, and The Asphalt Jungle.
And Bus Stop
Don't bother to knock was her best dramatic and serious role I think.
Miller was a PUTZ
Actually, Bus Stop was supposedly her break out serious dramatic role, but her character was so comedic
Four excellent performances all in one place. The difficulties and troubles of making "The Misfits" are well-known but I don't know what Marilyn thought about her own performance. I do know she thought the character of Roslyn was too sweet but I'm curious about what Marilyn thought of her work once it was complete.
Andrew Brendan I read many book about her and I think her husband wrote the character of Roslyn based on Marilyn and things Marilyn had said. Marilyn was disappointed in the role, but loved working with Clark n' Monty. I think it turned out very good and different for her. Not sure how she would have looked back on it. But I personally love this dark movie. I think it catches a bit of Marilyn's personality.
She didn't like her work in the movie, or the movie itself. She never thought much of the script. "Arthur could have written anything for me," she said, "and he wrote *this*." Her reasons were complicated, but one of them, as you correctly state, is that she considered Rosalyn less a real person and more a sentimental conceit. On the other hand, she didn't much like the script for Some Like It Hot either; she only did that movie because she and Miller needed the money. This one she did for Miller -- and of course it finished their marriage. Regardless, I love this movie, though I think she was right that the script needed work. I also think there are *five* excellent performances in The Misfits, but Thelma Ritter is so reliably good that it's easy to take her for granted. Of course, maybe Ritter was among your four.
Good point! Made that five excellent performances. Thelma Ritter was terrific. I'm so accustomed to thinking of the MM, CG, MC and EW and seeing pictures just of them that I wasn't thinking of Thelma Ritter but she deserves just as much recognition as the others. She was a superlative actress. I haven't seen a lot of her work but from what I've seen I'd say I liked her best in "Titanic". I remember especially: "Sure clouded up. Well, a word'll do it quicker'n than a hickory stick any day". (That may not be word-for-word but it's close!)
Thelma Ritter is quite good in this, as in everything she did, and tends to get overlooked. She elevated a lot of "side" roles to be better than they would have been with most anyone else. Check out "Pickup on South Street," in which she turns in an amazing performance.
Eli and Monty were brilliant in those supporting roles.
This older gentleman in this scene looks so much like my grandfather wow. She was flawless though I could watch her all day 😍😍😍😍😍
i've always found it ironic that she was considered "aging out of the industry" and yet, i don't think she's ever looked more beautiful than in her final months.
Marilyn Monroe was and is the Greatest Star and will always be! MM had a difficult year" A prolonged shoot at 20th for her movie Lets Make Love were she had.a serious romance with co star Yves Montand that shattered her marriage to Arthur Miller. MM had agreed to star in the Misfits filmed in the heart of summer with only a week's break between Lets Make Love and the Misfits. John Huston directed this brilliant film-one of my favorite's-with co star Clark Gable and a great cast of Mont Clift, Thelma Ritter, and Eli Wallach. Arthur Miller wrote this film just for MM and they were estranged during the filming. Despite the stress or maybe because fit MM is Magnificent in this UA movie.
arthur miller thought it would be funny to give marilyn this character because he wrote it with her story and told her to play this part when she didn’t want too, he also wrote down in his diary horrible things about marilyn and said things like “i’m so embarrassed by her!” “i wish i never married her” and then marilyn suffered for. a miscarriage twice with him, and she was very depressed in the filming of this. if you look at behind the scenes photos or videos she was very upset, she was before but this was the worst time of her life. He got her involved in drugs and drinking, and then during the filming of The Misfits he married the photographer and had a baby with her less than a year later. I find that horrible, that he did all of this to hurt marilyn !
Miller was an total creep. Soon after this movie was made, he divorced her and married a photographer that he met on the set of this movie. When the new wife gave birth to a retarded boy, Miller had him put in an institution and refused to see him. Pure piece of crap.
A real interesting film, very surreal, especially in black and white.
era una brava attrice, she ws a good actress, much better actress than Elizabeth Taylor
Thelma Ritter ❤❤❤
Sad this was Monroe's final film 🥺
My god she’s unexplainable 🔥♥️
The fact her husband at the time would put her thru this is terrible
"The Misfits" shows how Marilyn had grown as an actress. Who cares if it took hours for her to come to the set, or she flubbed her lines? The final product was magic.
So Sad For Her Not Having Her Mom And Dad
What a cast , I remember watching this film when I was a kid on tv , I thought it was incredible, I didn’t know about all the mystery of the stars & director , I remember my dad just being entranced
Have you seen "don't bother to knock"?
She's glowing
Thelma and Marilyn together. I love it!
Marilyn was simply brilliant in every way. Hard to imagine by today’s standards that anyone could argue that she’s not super talented. I’ll never get why no one ever gave Streisand or Brando the kind of hell she’s had to endure having to prove herself nonstop even after having delivered in movies like Don’t Bother to Knock, Niagara, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, There’s No Business Like Show Business or The Seven Year Itch in which she was stellar. Brandon and Streisand and countless others also played themselves most times. She wasn’t playing herself in Bus Stop. Her performance here was also absolutely great unlike the film. Marilyn seemed to magnify the raging cynicism and jealousy of most people. That being said her wig in The Misfits was a big no no.
Marilyn has a glowing effervescence that amounts to movie magic. It adds remarkably to the early 60s realism as in the beautiful, technicolor movies. All other actors too are at their sterling, black-and-white best. Fine direction and ensemble acting.
I was NOT emotionally prepared for this 😭😭
Riveting, Marilyn goes so scary deep in this intense brilliant performance, always blows me away...
She was a great actress. Even my idol, Barbra Streisand has said she was one of her favorite actresses. I love them both.
Two phenomenal talents...
OK so a lot of people may disagree with me, but I actually believe Marilyn was an extraordinary actress far ahead of her time. She was TOO REAL for this time period of film acting where things were still quite melodramatic. Marilyn played things smaller and with more subtlety and I feel she would have REALLY hit her stride if she hadn't died so early. She just needed some heftier roles to show her range and critics/audiences would've truly seen her talent!
great texture to that dialogue
She was so beautiful and 60s make up fits well for her 😍
Marilyn was an amazing actress, it's sad nobody ever told her that. She spent her whole life never feeling validated or accomplished. Why do we feel that we need other's approval so much?
This is the real world.
I’ve been crying so much during this whole scene. Poor Marilyn.
My fav film of Marilyn. Thank you ❤
Uma RAINHA! Deixou saudades... 😞😞😞
If only people would’ve seen this performance of hers, they’d have given her another golden globe nomination and maybe an Oscar nom too. She was so vulnerable. Quite melancholy too which is very rare to see especially from someone as iconic as her who made her living on comedy pictures. I find it quite fascinating to see her in a very different light. She was just pure perfection in films❤️!
I wasn't a Marilyn fan until I read "Blonde" by Joyce Carol Oates.
What a delight! And this wonderful film had been ignored by Hollywood? Hollywood is really an ignorant place! So little place for ambitious movies... All those great actors including Marylin! This look, this voice, this face will never appear on the screen again... My goodness! She wasn't yet in the zenit of her career... There were so many wonderful movies to come...
This movie is so different than any of her other movies. To me it is like she isn't acting at all but just being herself. There is a sadness and resignation about her in this movie that is heartbreaking.
Her acting is beautiful here!
Какая ужасная судьба , мне очень жаль эту милую женщину ,которая так отчаянно пыталась быть счастливой.Царствие тебе небесрое...
The Misfits wasn't a good movie, but it was good looking at Monroe, Gable and that Montgomery dude. I saw in a couple documentaries, Arthur Miller who wrote the script for Marilyn loosely based it on her life, and Marilyn hated the script, and basically ended their marriage. That Miller was a piece of work.
RIP Bless MM never a Goodbye
Thelma Ritter is fantastic •
Her acting is just incredible, what a loss :(
Can tell the Actors studio Lee Stassberg thought her well, MM does have dramatic actress talent
...I love me some MM but not gonna lie.....she didn't look her best here - Gable didn't look his best..it was filmed in black and white and quite frankly (as Amy Greene i believe has said) the script Miller wrote was a pile of crap that cast her in a negative light and she never should have done it. Now I know that's gonna ruffle some feathers - was her acting superb? Yes....but the story, the script, the vibe about it.....i think it was all happening at a super bad time in her life and that's all I can see when I view this. Imagine having one of the lowest points of your life personally on celluloid for all the world to see and as a remembrance that will last forever. Not to mention the fact that the asshole left his personal journal out for her to read that basically stated he made a mistake in marrying her and she was vapid and not "intellectual enough" for him.
It’s a incredible film , it wasn’t a hit because they couldn’t cope with MM actually being real & not what fox inc . wanted
Ohhhhh marilyn's eyes ❤
They look sad
Anyone who knows about her life off screen , would be so saddened by the reality of this scene to marilyn.
Great acting from her in this movie!
"How do u make on" 😅 that made me giggle for some reason
How was she 35 here? Looks at least 10 years younger.
Well 35 is still a young age.
Poor, beautiful Marilyn..she looks so fragile here...❤😢
Ofc she suddenly misses her mother! She "ends up where she started" bc of her mother not being there. A cycle of repeat.
If she would only had had better material and more time she would do a great job again , she was a wonderful and truthful actor.
my son had a dad that he look up to he know about NICK and he said to me that Nick mom you ever think he might be Nick is not the father Ha H A ha Nick is a friends of the family he said is that cool but l did say to my son l wish l did have one son from Nick but it did not happen and it well never happen
What a beautiful woman .
I love you Marilyn
Did Clarke Gable died and then the movie was released? Cause he died at 1960