From 1961: Roger Angell on Arthur Miller’s first screenplay, which casts Marilyn Monroe under a big desert sky—and in a part literally made for her. NewYorkerArchive
It will require a filmgoer of immensely sterner aesthetic discipline than I possess to consider “The Misfits” on its artistic merits alone, for its double identity—as a major new film and as an honest-to-goodness news story—is complex and nearly indivisible. It is, of course, the last movie made by Clark Gable, who died almost immediately after completing work in what appears to have been an exhausting role.
“The Misfits” was filmed in Nevada, mostly outdoors, and concerns itself with a young, hopeless, and frightened divorcée who contracts a tentative alliance with a middle-aged vagabond cowboy. All is felicity until she accompanies her paramour and two footloose cronies on a business expedition to capture wild mustangs, which are to be turned over to a dog-meat factory.
The casting of the film is almost impeccable. In a part literally made for her, Miss Monroe displays a gentleness and a tired, childlike grace that are appropriate and moving and, very evidently, a reflection of herself. If she is not consistently an actress here, she is an actress at moments, notably in one scene of sad, sensual alcoholic collapse. Mr.
It must be clear by now that all my severe doubts about “The Misfits” center on Arthur Miller’s screenplay, which seems to me obtrusively symbolic and so sentimental as to be unintelligent. Let it be admitted that hearts of pure gold are difficult for a dramatist to set beating with a thud that sounds human, but this is a handicap Mr. Miller has chosen for himself.
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