© Peter Sneyder
1960 - Because of Marilyn Monroe's prior commitment to make the musical Let's Make Love, production on The Misfits didn't begin until July 1960, when the Nevada locations were baked by temperatures climbing to 120 degrees each day. Filming lasted through the blistering summer and was finally completed on November 4, 1960. Release came some three months later, on February 1, 1961.
Those blistering days of production sound like a Tennessee Williams-inspired conundrum: Playwright caught between the art of the cinema and the anguish of a failing marriage. The ailing King of the Movies taking unnecessary risks. A director addicted to the gambling tables. And an intense young method actor, Montgomery Clift, who had his own emotional stress but who nevertheless ended up being the most reliable actor on the set. (Gable's first reaction to playing a scene with Clift was: "Damn, he's really good!")
21 сен 2014
