Marilyn Monroe’s Final Screen Turn Reveals Hidden Depths in The Misfits

Marilyn Monroe’s final completed film, The Misfits, uses stark desert imagery and a trio of aging stars to reveal her unexpected dramatic depth in Roslyn—a wounded, complex woman tailor-made for her by Arthur Miller—while director John Huston frames the story as a meditation on mortality, foreshadowing the tragedy that would cut short Monroe's era.