The Making of Marilyn Monroe's Very Meta Last Film 

I tell you if I died and my ex wrote a play about his idea of me he'd never know peace again, it'd be that scene from Annette on the shore

I had no idea she had Endometriosis. People love to glamourize her addiction, but it was probably more like pain management. Since Endometriosis is not being taken seriously now, I can't imagine what its like in the 60s.

There is NOBODY doing these sorts of historical cinema profiles on RU-vid with the level of nuance and knowledge that you do. Brilliant work. Truly.

I can't imagine how hurt Marilyn must've been to have John Huston, someone who she admired because he treated her with respect and understanding throughout her career working with him and to throw her under the bus because of his gambling addiction to save his ass cause he knew the public would eat it up and believe it must've cut DEEP!

Pop culture's obsession with Marylin Monroe's life and the continuous treatment of her as a figurine and a brand is why her story continues to sadden me whenever I hear about it. She was never given a chance to show people the extent of her talents but she did the most with what she was given.

It’s nice to see somebody analyzing Marilyn Monroe as a real person because even decades later we’re still treating her like an image.

I've always found it ridiculous when people question or diminish Marilyn's talent as an actress when she's literally one of the most captivating, effervescent and truly magical people to watch on screen in the history of cinema. You can never take your eyes off her and you don't want to either! She was truly one of a kind.

I found it interesting that Clark Gable who wouldn’t cry in Gone with the Wind(because “real men don’t cry”), agreed to do a full on meltdown scene in this movie. A lot of male actors in Hollywood re-evaluated their macho standards in the fifties. I think it probably had a lot to do with Brando’s performance in Streetcar. It really was a turning point, both for standards of acting as well as portrayal of masculinity on screen.

The fact that Monroe DIDN'T get a best supporting actress nomination for "Some Like It Hot" will forever be one of the BIGGEST mistakes ever 😖

I love the credit you're giving her "before training" work; she was a brilliant actress from the beginning, even (and especially) in those early romantic comedies where, as you said, she was acting dumb so convincingly. You're totally right -- charm isn't easy, pretending to be aloof and unbothered isn't easy, and even then, she was turning out some really nuanced performances IN those shallower roles. Marilyn deserves so much more credit for her entire career. Beautiful video (haven't even finished watching yet lol), as always. Rest easy, Norma Jeane

I wish her comedic timing had been appreciated. She’s so genuinely funny and fun to watch.

It always makes me so sad to think about the career Marilyn COULD'VE had if she had lived longer. I think a lot about how she would've been affected by the collapse of the studio system and just the general change in film in the late-sixties and seventies, and I wonder if filmmakers would've been more willing to give her a shot at roles that subverted her persona and let her display her talents for dramatic acting more. Every time I read a book or watch a documentary (or RU-vid video) about Marilyn I get so hung up on what-if scenarios like these, and it inevitably makes me very sad about the fact that she was just so mistreated in life (and in death as well honestly). She truly was just a one-of-a-kind person, and I hate to think that nobody appreciated her for that.

Marilyn played her fictional persona so well that it fooled almost all people that it is her true self.

It’s so disheartening how disrespected she was; not really surprising, but still maddening that her talent was not really appreciated while she was alive (and now most of the attraction she gets is as a tragic figure). She deserved/s so much better

It's a testament to Marilyn that we are still trying to understand her to this day.

I find The Misfits tragic and fascinating in how it acts as a goodbye to the Golden Age of Hollywood and the studio system, and also a goodbye to all three of the main actors. Gable and Monroe’s last film, and Clift heavily into his long suicide.

It’s about time someone took Marilyn seriously. Gentleman Prefer Blondes and Some Like It Hot will forever be my favorite movies. She did incredibly well with what she was given and is still hugely underrated

What is overlooked often, is that Marilyn's earlier performances in Millionaire, Blondes and Itch for example, is acting of the highest order. Only a fool doesn't recognise this. Thank you for pointing this out.

Montgomery Clift was one of the GOATS of method acting. Gable was one of the GOATS of the Hollywood studio system, and Marilyn was a combination of both. What a great cast!

“It’s hard to play dumb.” THANK YOU. I learned this the hard way when I played an airhead in a student film and saying the same lines drove me nuts, but I couldn’t let that show because self-consciousness is what makes bad acting. That Marilyn could do it so naturally is a testament to her skill.

I think it's a common saying among directors that "you have to get a smart person to play a dumb person." See also Lisa Kudrow playing Phoebe in "Friends," or Amanda Seyfried playing Karen in "Mean Girls." That's equally true with Marilyn.

Its well documented that young Norma Jeane fantasized that Clark Gable was her father while she was in the orphanage (although she never imagined anyone was her mother). How heartbreaking then that so many in the press essentially blamed her for causing Clark Gable's death over the filming delays (ignoring more obvious causes like Gable's age, workload, heavy drinking and smoking). I can't imagine how much hurt that must have caused her. EDIT: Wasn't even aware the clip I was referencing was actually in this vid until after posting this. lol

She was such a raw person when she wasn’t acting. She was actually such a gifted actress, people can’t even separate the stage presence that is Marilyn from her real self. She was such an amazing artist. A true icon.

I can’t STAND Arthur Miller. His disdain for his precious wife was so evident. He destroyed her confidence and tried to squash her. I know she wasn’t easy but he had no patience and was very hurtful. I hate what he did to her

I love the how empathetically you cover her here. So few people and platforms imagine her complexly, as a real, talented human. Thanks for your hard work here, as always. ✨

What is also sad is that Clark Gable also had similar feelings as Marilyn regarding his own career. In Myrna Loy's autobiography, she details how he never seemed to reach his full potential as an actor because of his own insecurities and typecasting...

At "... an elegy to the dumb blonde she never was" I fell into tears. Even writing this reply brings them again. THANK YOU for a caring, respectful post about perhaps our most wrongly cheapened great star.

The "I call them 19th century fox line" was brilliant. She was a sophisticated beauty, she certainly wasn't the bimbo or naive blonde bombshell they wanted her to be

I remember the day Marilyn Monroe died. I was fascinated by her my entire life, probably partly because my mother looked so much like her, and partly because ever since I had first seen her when I was a little boy, I literally thought she was supernatural. I've seen everything possible on her, had a huge collection at one point including several personal items, signed checks of hers, excetera, and owned all the books. Having said all that, this is by far the best and most intelligent profile I've ever seen on her.

this video, and Yhara Zayd's video on Marilyn's public image after her death, have been incredible analyses on how fame and the studio system never gave a flying fuck about Marilyn as a person with any real sense of autonomy, intelligence or talent. It's stating the obvious and the already well known fact that she was seen as a piece of meat who showered 20th Century Fox with money, I know, but it's incredible to me how so many people fail to see the problem with the inhumane treatment she dealt with in her life, that it was all "part of the deal", ugh. Thank you so much for making videos like this, that aren't afraid of showcasing the great talent and personality that Marilyn was and that so many people in her life either were too blind or simply refused to see.

I thought I knew EVERYTHING about MM & I actually learned things I never knew !!! 1. Miller wrote ANOTHER play with an MM character before he died. 2. Huston F’d up the production way more than MM. 3. Gloria Steinem was at Actor’s Studio w/MM. 4. The book “Will Acting Spoil Marilyn Monroe?” 5. Marilyn’s quotes on how she felt Roslyn was dumbed down. Great analysis on the meta aspects of the Rosalyn character!! Makes me want to see the film again. AND thank you for using the most RESTORED footage I’ve ever seen of MM film work! (Amazing editing btw on this entire piece.) Best LOL moment “Girl, someone’s giving a great comedic performance here & her name is not Lawrence Olivier.” 😂😂😂 And where in the world did you find an audio recording of the original cast of After The Fall??

I love the Gal Gadot reference. Oh what power and connections in Hollywood could do for a lackluster turkey.. RIP Marilyn, much love and peace.

“Her movie and her performance didn’t really matter, neither, apparently, did the truth” - you hit Marilyn all right there with that opening, BKR

"And to think, Arthur did this to me." :( that line made me especially sad. All she wanted was to be taken seriously as an actress and to this day she's just seen as a model of ideal beauty. I think, had she lived longer she would've for sure at least gotten an oscar nomination. A part of me wonders why Elizabeth Taylor was aloud to act in great roles and Marilyn wasn't...

its kinda sad to know that "The Misfits" is a much more underrated film in Monroe"s filmography, compared to "Some Like It Hot" or "The Seven Year Itch" since it definitely shows her range and talent much better than any of her other films

‼️I HIGHLY recommend watching Marilyn in her basically only serious role called Don't Bother to Knock. It's a psychological thriller reminds me a lot of an Alfred Hitchcock movie. She is absolutely fantastic. It didn't do well at the time because she was so typecasted that no one was able to take her seriously in this movie. But now having the benefit of hindsight and being able to see her as an actual person she really shows just how talented of an actress she really was. She is absolutely fantastic, in my opinion this is her best role. There is a certain type of person who is so good at acting that they create a real life persona so convincingly that people assume that persona is the truth. That's what Marilyn Monroe the actress was. Marilyn Monroe was just as much of a character and a mask as any role she played onscreen. And it definitely wasn't who she really was as a person. She was definitely incredibly talented and I have no doubt that if she had lived a couple decades later and been allowed to succeed and have been taken seriously she would be like Meryl Streep is and be taking serious roles and doing amazing well into her retirement age. I absolutely love your videos! I love how you do these biographies on vintage actresses and stuff. I was wondering if you would ever Branch out a little bit and do the biographies of some famous vintage ballet dancers. Some of them had some really wild dramatic lives.

I gasped at the “enough Champagne……to fill the Nile” clip But yes it was a credit to her that Marylin made playing the “dumb blonde” so effortless and effortlessly charming

Don't Bother to Knock is a great film I always recommend people check out. It was before the whole "Marilyn" persona really took off and you see a completely different, serious side to her. You could see a very good dramatic actress with a lot of potential.

The Misfits is easily Marilyn's best film as actress. Finally an adult role that didn't flatter or pander to her sensuality. Instead Miller uses it as a commentary on how Roselyn affects the male characters, symbolizing the shred of humanity in the cruel, inhumane world of desert, the western, & all rodeos.

I can't watch this movie without an emotional struggle. I'm so glad you're talking about this. The whole movie, from Arthur writing it as her "Valentine" to the on set issues to the aftermath is so much to cover. Glad to see other people treating her as what she was, a human

Can you imagine how fascinating Monroe would've been in a faithful adaptation of Brothers Karamazov? Grushenka is such a complicated person... that scene where she toys with Alyosha and Katya, or the "I gave an onion" monologue... Grushenka to me seems like a person who wants to think that she knows herself and seems highly motivated, but is unable to commit to any action completely because her morality is at war with her persona as a capricious tease. That would've been amazing to see Monroe stretching her skills with, because she knew all about persona (like that exchange where Norma Jean Baker asked a friend "do you want to see me become her [Marilyn]?" and suddenly everyone on the street started recognizing her by the way she held herself). I think the 1958 Karamazov film sucked tbh, and Monroe being in it probably wouldn't have saved the script, but that's not a reflection of her skill.

Damn, that low blow against gal gadot there was......hilariously deserving

I love the Misfits and the scene of Monroe and Clift sitting on the ground is so tender, so beautifully acted. it also drives me crazy that people say, "Oh, see's just playing herself." I'd like to see any of those people stand up and just "be" themselves film after film. She was one of a kind even in an industry where women had very little room to move. Thank you for your work.

Fun Fact: Monroe was quite the reader. She enjoyed Ulysses and always asked to borrow new books that others kept to collecting dust on a shelf. Her ability to quickly study and analyze text was well known in many circles. However, she was rumored to suffer self-esteem issues despite her intelligence. I find it interesting how people rally against the cage of good looks and Hollywood image of Monroe but also never mention her intelligence first and foremost. Fun Fact 2: In 1984 the Supreme Court deregulated dress sizes. Most people do not know that. Because of that, people think a size 12 Monroe is like a size 12 now. Her size 12 dress was too small for a modern size 2 dress geek. Her measurements were almost the same as Liz Hurley (a model who thinks Monroe was "fat"). Additionally, the misconception of Monroe's size is why people contradictorily say "Americans are now bigger than ever" while also saying "Women were bigger back then." The cornerstone of body positivity is based on a misconception and contradictions. Finally, no real proof of banging the Kennedys exists! She was a hard worker who suffered when she did not have to. The op-option of her by right and left and fad movements and conspiracy theories should stop. Just stop.

More people need to talk about eli Wallach in this movie. That dude is such an underrated actor

Comic timing is one of the hardest things for actors to get right, so i'm incredibly glad you referenced the fact that her comedic roles and the skills required went so underappreciated. There are so few actresses even today that could pull off some of the roles that she did with the same degree of comedy, relatability and stage presence that she had. Once again thank you for raising this point x

I thought it impossible to say more than has already been said about Marilyn's legacy, but here it is folks. This tribute is at once elegant and down to earth, insightful and heart rending. Thank you for creating this; it is simply wonderful; congratulations. You, like Marilyn, deserve all our appreciation and love !

5:51 I remember Jane Fonda in interviews talking about Marilyn Monroe in acting classes and when you hear that account, you really have a sense of what she was like.

Sorry...another comment... yes, Marilyn kept getting thrown under the bus, when Miller couldn't get the script together, and Huston blew all that money. I loathe that she gets all the blame.

gosh she looks so stunning in the misfits, her in casual clothes and that lob is just gorgeous

I have said for the longest time that Marilyn had a spark that not every actor has. She really did have an innate talent for acting in front of a camera and deserves to be recognized for being more than just a curvaceous figure and a pretty face. Excellent video. I'm glad it exists.

On that day in 62 I was at a sleepover with my friends, it came over the radio that Marilyn was gone, I cried all day but my friends didn't understand,, I had discovered major sadness and depression,, I was 14 and still love and miss Marilyn,, I'm glad to see younger generations finally giving her the respect and understanding she has always deserved ♥️💋

It's always mystified me why The Misfits has been held in such low esteem. The shifting dynamics between the characters I find compelling and Marilyn's performance in it was genuinely moving, even if it's dismissed by some as Marilyn merely playing herself. The same could be said about John Wayne (that was always playing himself), but he never could summon the nuance and pathos that Marilyn so easily could.

I feel for her with all my heart. She was a luminous person and suffered unrelenting abuse through her brief life. No actor compares to her, the way she can light up the screen with her presence and her talent.

John Houston also treated Montgomery Clift the same in Freud: The Secret Passion (1962), where he blamed everything on him and even suing him.

"How do you find your way back in the dark?" -- God that's a heartbreaking line coming from Marilyn

When I was growing up, there was a 50’s style diner a few blocks from my house that had a giant, black-and-white photo of Marilyn Monroe. I would often go to the diner just to look at her. Marilyn was my first crush. It’s horrendous the way she was underestimated and objectified - but in the end, she is the one remembered for her iconic roles in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Seven Year Itch, The Misfits and one of the best comedic performances of all time, Some Like It Hot. We love you, MM.

I love your videos!

33:32 That's probably true within the context of the US, however, I found out about Miller the playwright much earlier than Miller the husband of Marilyn Monroe. I was in high school when I read his "Death of a Salesman" after watching a televised performance of it and was blown away by it. This eventually led me to "A View from the Bridge", "All My Sons", and finally, "The Crucible".

I saw a tweet a couple weeks ago that was like “imagine if Marilyn had lived long enough to play Desiree in A Little Night Music” and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since

Was shocked to see a 2nd video this month, but really love how you delve into Marilyn's story. Just feel sad to me that no matter how hard other ppl try to debunk the stereotypical image of Marilyn, it will always still linger there.

"The Misfits" are among my favorite movies and its backstory is among the most intriguing stories about Miss Monroe. I really love your take about this movie and explaining the context, in which, why she took on such a role. As always, love your work and amazing work as always. ❤💯

I highly recommend reading "Marilyn in Manhattan: Her Year of Joy" by Elizabeth Winder for another analysis on who she was as a woman and who she wanted to be as an actress! I've never seen The Misfits, but it's definitely going on my list now ❤

There are no words to describe just how much I love this channel. Consistently engaging, well-researched, and perfectly paced.

The Misfits was her last completed film. Her last films was actually “Something’s gotta give”.

I saw that movie two months ago and I thought it was really engaging. I loved seeing Marilyn get some material that had her playing a complex character, rather than a character you need to read complexity into cause she nailed it. And Clark Gable was great in this too. What a cursed production though, damn.

Another gem of a video! Heartbreaking hearing about what Marilyn has to suffer to be taken seriously

They just pimped her out. It’s infuriating. I had endometriosis, just like around 10% of women in the US, and what was worse than the pain were the assholes who thought I faked the pain. The crippling pain. For which i had a hysterectomy because I couldn’t live with that pain anymore. So I can understand how her battle with it coupled with how she was generally treated, and the barbiturates they pushed on her, I can understand how she probably sunk into a deep depression. It’s just infuriating and sad. She had a good soul and heart. I think she would’ve ranked up there with Betty White had she lived.

“Gurrrl her name was not Lawrence Olivier” - 😂😂 if only we could reach back in time and give these people clap backs like this for trashing Marilyn all of the time. Olivier sucked in that movie. PS I looove your channel and these essay style videos!

9:53 it occurs to me that having a deep resentment at being seen as "only needing to show up to succeed" could quite naturally motivate a person to be outrageously unreliable out of spite.

This is off topic but I was shocked recently when reading the comments about a video entitled "Marilyn Monroe's brief pregnancy during the making of Some Like It Hot". Everyone - whilst claiming to love Marilyn - was chiding her for "irresponsibility" for making a movie while pregnant (she looks to my layman's eye anywhere from 10 to 16 weeks pregnant in SLIH - possibly not that "brief" at all). The point - which not one person mentioned - was that there was no such thing as maternity leave in 1958-9 and Marilyn had no choice but to make that film - it was almost like she went into it with a gun to her head. I know Endometriosis makes it extremely hard to carry a pregnancy to full term but I still can't watch Tony Curtis tripping her up on the beach so she lands flat on her stomach without wincing. I've never heard that this was the cause of her miscarriage but it can't have helped.

I watched The Misfits for the first time with my now ex husband, towards the tail end of our relationship. This analysis brought me to tears. I've been a fan of Marilyn for the majority of my life and it's rare to see people analyzing her with such understanding and compassion, as well as acknowledging her endometriosis!! Thank you!

I just watched this a few weeks ago! The horse herding scene made me cry, the whole thing was so intense

I just can't help but wonder the striking similarities between Britney and Marilyn, both heavenly beauties, inexplicably famous, underappreciatd talents, destroyed by the media, the world & even their own loved ones

33:50 I read his plays first and found out about Monroe later, but I’m not American. I think a more convincing reason is that he had a lot of unanswered questions about his relationship with Monroe and felt he had to express them. This makes sense when you see the timings of these plays, after her death and towards the end of his life.

The clip of Gael Gadot from Death in the nile after commenting that an untalented but gorgeous actress couldn't have gotten as much success as Marilyn had me cackling

Honestly, I always knew Marilyn Monroe had to be a lot smarter than the bombshell persona she was known for, but even then I never saw until this video how intelligent, passionate and well-read she was! Also you’re right, comedic timing and charm is a skill and it’s definitely not something all beautiful actresses have (the clip of gal gadot really demonstrated it for me 😂). She was a great actress and performer and yet people wanted to box her in.

Wow this is fantastic. I had no idea about the Huston backstory on this movie. Really appreciate how you are excavating sexism-in-action in these classic film stories.

This is a remarkably good channel. The information feels balanced, objective, and grounded in fact, something that cannot be said about other similar channels, which are often inaccurate, glitzy, and forever focused on the negatives.

Your emphasis on her EMOTIONAL intelligence in this role/character is legitimately something I've always felt about her performances that, regardless of incessant typecasting, shine through in her downright Piscean adaptation to the material she's given. The roles she was given throughout her career played to male fantasy, and the mythos of that projected fantasy is STRONG, but it clearly takes people who can see past such two-dimensional objectifications how emotional intelligence actually dominates her career. It's significant in all of her performances and I think is a major factor that endears her to audiences to this day. That is why she was more than just A Star.

Marilyn’s greatest performance was playing Marilyn Monroe. Personally, I thought Marilyn was awesome in “Bus Stop”

I’m happy that this video exists and shows us a glimpse into what could’ve been. An in-depth Marilyn Monroe video essay was long overdue.

I love her comment about 19th Century Fox. She was an intelligent woman. What a loss not having films with her playing serious characters. I was lucky I never met her in person, I would have fallen madly, desperately, and painfully in love with her. I believe she is the most beautiful when she is out of character and just being herself. She must have been the sweetest girl. It's true, comedy is very difficult, and she was masterful at it. Her timing is perfect.

I appreciate your coverage of this and other notable events and personalities from Golden Age Hollywood. In this instance, I think you make a very compelling case that Marilyn Monroe was scapegoated for problems on The Misfits, but I also feel like you erased the very real mental health struggles Marilyn experienced throughout her life. Marilyn wrote this note/journal entry in 1957 when Arthur Miller was writing the screenplay of The Misfits: "Starting tomorrow I will take care of myself for that’s all I really have and as I see it now have ever had. Roxbury-I’ve tried to imagine spring all winter-it’s here and I still feel hopeless. I think I hate it here because there is no love here anymore… In every spring the green [of the ancient maples] is too sharp-though the delicacy in their form is sweet and uncertain-it puts up a good struggle in the wind-trembling all the while… I think I am very lonely-my mind jumps. I see myself in the mirror now, brow furrowed-if I lean close I’ll see-what I don’t want to know-tension, sadness, disappointment, my [“blue” is crossed out] eyes dulled, cheeks flushed with capillaries that look like rivers on maps-hair lying like snakes. The mouth makes me the sadd[est], next to my dead eyes… When one wants to stay alone as my love (Arthur) indicates the other must stay apart." By her own admission, Marilyn was struggling with a profound, pervasive, almost annihilating unhappiness that sounds an awful lot like clinical depression during a pivotal stage in the creation of The Misfits. This erasure of mental health issues in very high profile, female entertainment stars is something I see played out over and over even as mental health advocates wage very public campaigns to destigmatize mental illness. As a society, we seem willing to tolerate mental illness and even to feel sympathy for people who live with mental health conditions, as long as we can other them as objects of pity. When a woman's public persona is that of a beautiful, charismatic performer, we find ways to elide her struggles with mental illness, be it depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, or any one of a host of other mental health conditions. As someone who has been diagnosed with Bipolar I, I find this erasure damaging for me personally and for people living with mental illness in general. I'll add that--judging by this passage--Marilyn Monroe was one hell of a writer.

I just saw this movie for the first time a couple of weeks ago without knowing all the baggage attached to it. As I watched it, I could see this 'new Marilyn' starting to emerge and was lamenting this older Marilyn actor that we never got to see. But then I found out that it was her last film AND Gable's last film and about the troubled production and everything. This video was a great watch.

I love love love your essays! And I love your take on Marilyn, she really was done so wrong by soooooo many people throughout her life. People she thought she could trust....it’s heartbreaking. She was a real human in real pain and all people ever seem to take out of her story is “oooh fashion style icon”. Megan Fox had a Marilyn Monroe tattoo that she had the removed AFTER she learned more about Marilyn’s deeply sad life.

The read on Laurence Olivier was FIRE

Marilyn's last film was Something's Got to Give (1962) even though it's not finished

The photos in the locker scene blew me away. Her being cool with that shows her depth and playfulness. WTG, MM!

While not an exact correlation, I'd like to imagine that Marylin Monroe's later works would be similar to Kirsten Dunst. Known in popular culture for her younger performances, but really nails it in later ones. I could see Marylin doing something like Melancholia or Fargo.

I have been rewatching all your content recently after moving out on my own for the first time. You are keeping me sane and this new video feels like a sign I’m going to be ok! Love you and your work

This subject is very near and dear to my heart. My grandfather used to be a photographer before he was blacklisted for unionizing, and later became a diplomat. He was assigned to cover Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller's wedding press conference. My family has been in Connecticut for a billion years, and they lived near where the press conference was. That area is still very rural, in a very expensive sort of way. It's all dirt roads with impossibly tight curves and those gorgeous stacked stone walls. On the way to the press conference, one of the journalists from out of state went off the road and was somewhat badly injured. So Marilyn being the incredibly kind and compassionate woman that she was, pulled over when she drove past the accident and helped the injured journalist. In the process she got covered in blood. By the time my grandfather got to the scene, also on the way to the event, the situation was already under control. So, being ever the good journalist, he photographed the scene, with the intention of showing how compassionate she was. I don't know if anyone wrote about how compassionate she was caring for an injured journalist by the side of the road, but I know that I have incredible original photographs of Marilyn Monroe covered in blood. I have a photo of her and Arthur Miller that he took on my dresser, and it's incredibly unusual because they both look great. They both look happy. He doesn't look old. Neither looks upset that they're being photographed, like they do in literally every other picture of the two of them. In college, one of my fiends invited me to a lecture that Robert Miller, Arthur Miller's son, who produced the movie version of The Crucible, was giving her class. She was distraught that everyone in her class had found the movie boring, and begged me to come sit with her. I got to talk with him after his lecture about my grandfather's experience with Marilyn, and the poor guy said that he can't talk to a group of people without someone bringing up whether or not Arthur Miller exploited her. (He very sincerely thanked me for not bringing up the subject with the whole class.) He agreed with my assessment that while Arthur Miller respected her, it was difficult for him to see her as any sort of intellectual equal. The whole thing is just incredibly sad.

I could cry, I’m such a huge Marilyn fan and I would love to see more videos giving her the credit she deserves.

Huston was a piece of work, so was Miller for that matter. Marilyn was not without issues, but dang she gave such a performance. I always feel so sad that we never got the career trajectory she was steering for.

I can't tell you how happy the notification that my favorite YT channel did a video on my favorite movie made me. Izzy, you're a treasure

Great video, as always. The Misfits is one of my favorite films, in great part due to Marilyn’s and Monty’s incredible performances. Though also, living for the shade thrown Gal Gadot’s way. Ha!

when you said "gorgeous, untalented people" my mind immediately went to one person, and then bang, there she is in your video. Wonderful. also: "flipping hips"?

Olivier got it right - then trashed her as"a model." 500% right re her acting v/s his; to his tiny credit, he did agree later. His scorn deeply hurt her; Miller agreed (she saw in his left-open diary), likely starting their collapse.

You knock it out of the park with each posted video. Very informed, balanced, well researched.

thank you for this. i've listened to the Be Kind Rewind podcast about this and i love that you made a video about this. i love your channel so much