Prime Video: Just a few days left to see Marilyn Monroe’s cursed movie

While many are aware of Marilyn Monroe’s tragic death in August 1962, few know that her sudden death coincided with the unfortunate events that occurred after the filming of John Huston’s 1961 film, The Misfits.

This film, Marilyn Monroe’s last, was also the last project of another Hollywood legend: Clark Gable.

This Twilight Western stars Marilyn Monroe as Roslyn Taber, a recently divorced woman who meets a man who seduces her as much as he intrigues her, Gay Langland, an old cowboy played by Clark Gable.

The film follows Roslin’s relationship with Gay, his friend Guido (Eli Wallach) and Perce Howland (Montgomery Clift), another cowboy who has been ruined by one too many rodeos. Roslin tries to dissuade these men from hunting mustangs by promising wild horses that they will be sent to their deaths to end up as dog food.

The dark nature of the film, with all the characters carrying heavy emotional baggage, weighed heavily on Marilyn Monroe. It would be difficult for him to be around her during the shooting and in the end, she didn’t even want to promote the film.

The curse surrounding the film began with the death of Clark Gable, who suffered a heart attack 12 days into filming. He was quoted as saying after the film was over: “I’m glad this movie is over. I almost had a heart attack“, before his death at the age of 59.

Gable was doing his own stunts because he was bored waiting for Monroe to arrive on set. TCM. Some pointed to physically intensive work (which included lassoing wild horses) as a contributing factor to his heart attack.

James L. According to Neibaur’s book, Clark Gable in the 1930s: The Movies That Made Him King of HollywoodKay Gable, his widow, is said to have told a columnist after his death that “It wasn’t the physical exertion that killed him“Some have concluded that Kay Gable’s death was attributed to Marilyn Monroe’s behavior on the set of Unhinged.

“It was a terrible tension, an eternal wait, wait, wait. He was waiting for everyone. He was so angry that he would do anything to keep himself busyKay said. However, many things could have caused his death, such as his habit of smoking three packs of cigarettes a day since childhood.

Monroe died a year later of a barbiturate overdose. Montgomery Clift later died of a heart attack in 1966. Legend has it that Clift refused to watch The Unhinged just hours before his death. His last words were “Absolutely not!“When asked to watch a movie.

His health deteriorated in the years leading up to his death. Vanity Fair writing that clift”He was already losing controlDuring the filming of John Huston’s film.

When it was released, Les Désaxés did not enjoy the critical or commercial success it deserved. It was first remembered as Monroe and Gable’s last film, a curse attached to it due to the death of the stars. And the same idea that helped him sell movie-related accessories…

It’s also the first film that John F. Kennedy, who had an affair with Marilyn Monroe, watched in the White House — adding to the strange coincidences of the film’s legacy.

Les Désaxés leaves the Prime Video catalog on November 30.