The Misfits
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Oct 2, 2026
Karina LongworthGUEST
And then, you know, I think you see...
Karina LongworthGUEST
if not a queer sexuality, a complicated sexuality in a number of other performances, from The Heiress to The Misfits.
Karina LongworthGUEST
I like to think of Red River and The Misfits as kind of a bookend to his career.
Karina LongworthGUEST
The Misfits wasn't his last film like it was for Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe, but it kind of feels like the conclusion of a certain Hollywood arc.
Karina LongworthGUEST
And in the two films, he's playing cowboys that are very, very different.
Karina LongworthGUEST
I mean, Red River is is a much more classic Western than The Misfits is, whereas The Misfits is much more revisionist.
Karina LongworthGUEST
And even if the sexuality that he's projecting in Red River is complicated, he's still a pretty straight ahead masculine hero in that film, whereas in The Misfits, it's a film about misfits.
Karina LongworthGUEST
It's a film about broken people.
Jake BostonHOST
So I will have to get a little bit creative on where I actually end up putting that.
Jake BostonHOST
We also have The Misfits on 4K.
Jake BostonHOST
This trailer looked amazing.
Jake BostonHOST
It's an anti-Western starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable.
Jake BostonHOST
It just looks so dang intriguing to me and timeless, if you will.
Jake BostonHOST
So I am very pumped to finally watch The Misfits.
Jake BostonHOST
And then I'm a big director box set guy.
Jake BostonHOST
Say what you will about this man.
Lisa ElliottHOST
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Jack FieldsGUEST
[laughs] But, uh, just performance-wise, her alone as an actress, I would vote for this or for her last movie, The Misfits, as her two greatest dramatic performances.
Stephanie ValleHOST
Can you tell us a little bit about The Misfits?
Jack FieldsGUEST
The Misfits was her very last movie, and it was written for her, specifically for her, by her husband, the great playwright Arthur Miller.
Jack FieldsGUEST
And, uh, even though they were, I guess, struggling in their marriage at the time that that movie was being made, she delivers a very deep performance.
Lisa ElliottHOST
So my husband and I don't fight a lot, but when we do fight, you know, he might get me, like, a treat or flowers, and now I'm gonna say, "No.
Mark EllisonHOST
Question five: Monroe's last completed film.
Mark EllisonHOST
Answer: The Misfits (1961).
Mark EllisonHOST
Directed by John Huston from a script by Arthur Miller, The Misfits also became Clark Gable's final film.
Mark EllisonHOST
Monroe died the following year.
Mark EllisonHOST
Her unfinished project, Something's Got to Give, was never completed.
Karina LongworthGUEST
But from that point on, like Alex, [laughs] Libby Holman became obsessed with Montgomery Clift.
Karina LongworthGUEST
And, um, around 1950, they actually started a romantic and sexual relationship that was kind of on again, off again, um, until the, the sort of the last time that they were really in each other's lives was when he was making The Misfits.
Karina LongworthGUEST
Um, so I think she has a fascinating story, and I've always been fascinated with him as well.
Karina LongworthGUEST
And, um, you know, it, it just seemed like it would be fun to tell a dual biography of the two of them-
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Alex RossGUEST
And, um, at least Suddenly Last Summer he was playing, like, a, a, an adult.
Alex RossGUEST
Um, and, and so that was, that was what we've lost, you know, that he never got to sort of go through the '60s and '70s playing, you know, uh, adult, uh, character parts.
Alex RossGUEST
And, and The Misfits, which we'll surely come back to, is, you know, gives us a indication, uh, of what we missed there.
Alex RossGUEST
Um, but anyway, okay, so Lonely Hearts, um, I mean, the issue I have with it is- I mean, I think the, the, the script is kind of bonkers.
Karina LongworthGUEST
Yeah, I mean, certainly for a long time.
Karina LongworthGUEST
One of the films that I talk about in the season is The Misfits, which was one of my mom's favorite movies.
Karina LongworthGUEST
So it was a film that I watched at probably too young of an age.
Karina LongworthGUEST
And so that's probably where I first saw him.
Karina LongworthGUEST
And then within a few years after that, I probably saw A Place in the Sun for the first time, which is another of my favorite films.
Karina LongworthGUEST
And, you know, you get kind of a, you go from like a slightly older, a little bit more beat up like literally and figuratively Montgomery Clift and the Misfits to his sort of young romantic perfection in A Place in the Sun.
Jen JohansHOST
Yeah, that's really interesting.
Jen JohansHOST
And I saw a great video that was going around.
Scott MacArthurHOST
well you sound like you're on the mountaintop with all the guys from the film so yeah i'm up here
Cameron ChapmanHOST
in the echoey oxbow uh for sure but yeah so i apologize if i'm a little i don't know what my pronunciations were in that in that video but it is what it is uh and we're we're here um last week uh or last episode we covered the misfits um Believe it or not, it stands at number 22, 22nd out of 22.
Cameron ChapmanHOST
It's our bottom-ranked movie so far.
Cameron ChapmanHOST
It has a 10 out of 20 for an average rating of 2.5.
Cameron ChapmanHOST
It's set in Nevada in 1885, as the opening titles tell you.
Cameron ChapmanHOST
Shot by Arthur C. Miller.
Cameron ChapmanHOST
Not Arthur Miller, writer of The Misfits, but Arthur C. Miller.
Cameron ChapmanHOST
How Green Was My Valley, The Gunfighter, which actually shot in this same town.
speaker_0HOST
1966, he spent most of the day in his New York City townhouse.
speaker_0HOST
His private nursing companion, Lorenzo James, said he had not spoken much all day between midnight and 1 a.m., James asked Cliff, who was in his bed and reading a book, whether he would be interested in viewing a rebroadcast of The Misfits that was airing as a late night movie.
speaker_0HOST
Absolutely not, exclaimed Cliff, and James went to his own bedroom to sleep without saying another word to Cliff.
speaker_0HOST
At 6.30 a.m., James woke up and went to wake Cliff, but found the bedroom door closed and locked.
Tessa GroffHOST
I feel like you would like that one.
Tessa GroffHOST
The Misfits.
Tessa GroffHOST
Um, and she'd become one of the most recognizable people on the planet, literally.
Tessa GroffHOST
Um, but she struggled.
Tessa GroffHOST
I didn't realize it was so close.
Tessa GroffHOST
1961.
Tessa GroffHOST
She died in 1962, and her final completed film was The Misfits, and it was released that year.
Tessa GroffHOST
So she went through, like, periods of psychiatric treatment, miscarriages with him.
Bob Boze BellGUEST
We're back to the contradiction.
Bob Boze BellGUEST
We're back to, if you want to, I just was watching The Misfits last night.
Bob Boze BellGUEST
It's a movie, Clark Gable's last movie, Marilyn Monroe's last movie.
Bob Boze BellGUEST
It was filmed in Reno.
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