DELETED MARILYN NUDE SCENE REDISCOVERED 5 DECADES LATER
Anude scene featuring Marilyn Monroe, long believed to have been lost has recently been discovered. The scene, from John Huston’s 1961 film The Misfits, was cut from the film, and was henceforth believed to have been destroyed.
Deadline reports that author Charles Casillo discovered the scene while researching for his book,
Marilyn Monroe: The Private Life of a Public Icon. The footage had been kept under lock and key by Curtice Taylor, son of the film’s producer Frank Taylor, ever since the latter died in 1999.
In the scene, also featuring Clark Gable, Monroe dropped a bedsheet covering her body. According to the report, it could have been one of the first ever nude scenes featuring a major actor in Hollywood’s sound era. Huston removed the scene after he felt it was unnecessary to the story, but producer Frank Taylore suspected it was of worth, and saved it.
Marilyn posed for Playboy magazine in 1953 and died of an overdose just one year after The Misfits, in 1962. She was one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s, and her films have grossed the 2018 equivalent of $2 billion worldwide.