Marilyn Monroe | 1960 Notes From The Set Of "The Misfits"

A single-page letter handwritten in pencilby Marilyn Monroe that expresses her thoughts regarding how The Misfits (United Artists, 1961) should be shot to convey the presence of Clark Gable's character, Gay Langland. The note reads in part, "I feel the camera has got/ to look through Gay's/ eyes whenever he is in a/ scene and even when he is/ not there still has to be a sense of/ him/ He is the center and the/ rest move around him."

LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 172-173. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.

5 x 8 inches

PROVENANCE Lot 196, "Property From the Estate of Lee Strasberg," Julien's Auctions, Beverly Hills, November 17, 2016