Marilyn Monroe Fully-Naked Footage From "The Misfits" Uncovered? Never Publicly Shown.
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2018 1:09 pm
According to a report in today's Sunday Times of London, England, an author peddling a new book: Charles Casillo, whose volume "Marilyn Monroe: The Private Life of a Public Icon" is set for publication by St Martin’s Press on Tuesday, about 45 seconds of the nude (I assume fully nude) Monroe, which was part of director John Huston's filming of Arthur Miller's original screenplay, The Misfits, which was supposedly destroyed and never publicly discussed, was, in fact, saved by producer Frank Taylor.
After Taylor died about 19 years ago, the film, kept in a cabinet, was held onto by Taylor's son Curtice (his spelling). It's condition is not specified nor is any indication given as to when it will be shown at the White House, Paris, Moscow, the Cinerama Dome or elsewhere.
Apparently this makes two movies in which film of Monroe in the raw was shot and survives. Here's a link to the article:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news ... -tfbrtfv82
I've never been a Monroe fan and if the footage shows up on free cable/broadcast TV or Youtube, I'd watch it but I don't expect to pay for a glimpse. Almost 50 years ago, after Monroe died, her final psychiatrist, AFAIK, Ralph Greenson, decided to give a few interviews about his deceased patient and his personal feelings on the topic. Though I felt, and was, unprepared to interview him, at the last minute the scheduled interviewer for the publication I was then employed by became unavailable, and despite my unfamiliarity with her life and career, much more-so then than now, the assignment was handed to me.
I've always felt Monroe's death was closer to a homicide than an accidental overdose of various drugs, one of which I've never known anyone to voluntarily take, and while I haven't current access to that self-censored article I wrote so long ago that is perhaps not available on the Internet, I do recall that while I was not dismayed by what I wrote, it was not one of my better efforts. I've never changed my opinion, formed after the interview, that Dr. Greenson was not dealing off of a full deck and had no business discussing his patients -- alive or dead.
Ken
After Taylor died about 19 years ago, the film, kept in a cabinet, was held onto by Taylor's son Curtice (his spelling). It's condition is not specified nor is any indication given as to when it will be shown at the White House, Paris, Moscow, the Cinerama Dome or elsewhere.
Apparently this makes two movies in which film of Monroe in the raw was shot and survives. Here's a link to the article:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news ... -tfbrtfv82
I've never been a Monroe fan and if the footage shows up on free cable/broadcast TV or Youtube, I'd watch it but I don't expect to pay for a glimpse. Almost 50 years ago, after Monroe died, her final psychiatrist, AFAIK, Ralph Greenson, decided to give a few interviews about his deceased patient and his personal feelings on the topic. Though I felt, and was, unprepared to interview him, at the last minute the scheduled interviewer for the publication I was then employed by became unavailable, and despite my unfamiliarity with her life and career, much more-so then than now, the assignment was handed to me.
I've always felt Monroe's death was closer to a homicide than an accidental overdose of various drugs, one of which I've never known anyone to voluntarily take, and while I haven't current access to that self-censored article I wrote so long ago that is perhaps not available on the Internet, I do recall that while I was not dismayed by what I wrote, it was not one of my better efforts. I've never changed my opinion, formed after the interview, that Dr. Greenson was not dealing off of a full deck and had no business discussing his patients -- alive or dead.
Ken
