Marilyn Monroe
Monroe, Gable and Montgomery Clift
delivered performances that are considered excellent by contemporary movie critics.[31] Tabloid
magazines blamed Gable's death of a heart attack on Monroe, citing her tardiness and quoting Gable's
widow Kay Spreckels Gable, who claimed that her husband did his own stunt work out of the
frustration of waiting for Monroe.[32] Exacerbating the situation was Gable's advanced age, plus long
history of alcohol and tobacco use. Monroe was invited by Kay to the baptismal ceremony for her and
Clark's son John Clark Gable. She attended.
In 1962, some of the most famous photographs of Monroe were taken by Bert Stern as a feature for
Vogue magazine. This photo shoot was her last and it is famously known as "The Last Sitting".[33]
Monroe returned to Hollywood to resume filming on the George Cukor comedy Something's Got to
Give, a never-finished film that has become legendary for problems on the set and proved a costly
debacle for Fox.
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