History Trivia / TheMisfits

** Almost the entire cast were having severe personal problems, but none more so than Creator/MarilynMonroe, whose marriage to the film's scriptwriter, Creator/ArthurMiller, was collapsing; she objected to how he had written her character and felt he had turned John Huston against her, and within weeks they were only speaking to each other through Monroe's acting coach, Paula Strasberg (wife of Method acting guru Lee Strasberg). In the early weeks of filming, she sought solace in the arms of her ''Let's Make Love'' co-star Yves Montand during weekend visits to her doctors in Los Angeles, trysts that stopped after gossip columnist Hedda Hopper printed a quote from Montand claiming that they were just his way of ensuring her romantic scenes in the film went smoothly (Monroe knew that he only said this to avoid hurting his wife, Simone Signoret, but she was still deeply stung by his words). Meanwhile, Miller began an affair with photographer Inge Morath, whom he later married after his divorce from Monroe became final.[[note]] They remained married until Morath's death in 2002. Miller based his final play, 2004's ''Finishing the Picture'', on his experience making ''The Misfits''.[[/note]] Miller was also constantly re-writing the script, regularly throwing Monroe into a panic over having new lines to remember at short notice.

* NamesTheSame: With the rivals of ''WesternAnimation/JemAndTheHolograms''. Not helped by [[ComicBook/JemAndTheHologramsIDW the comic reboot]] in which that version of them is specifically a metal band.

** Davey Havok of Music/{{AFI}} was proposed by Jerry Only as the new vocalist of the band after Michael Graves left; however, Havok was busy working on ''Sing The Sorrow'' and had found his own band in AFI, and turned down the proposal.

* ActorInspiredElement: Arthur Miller rewrote Roslyn from the short story to more closely resemble Marilyn Monroe's [[ActorSharedBackground backstory]]. In the short story, Roslyn was college educated, but dropped out of high school in the film. The "you're the saddest girl I ever met" exchange between her and Gay was taken from a real conversation they both had. Additionally, Roslyn has several of Marilyn's genuine pin-up photos stuck to the closet door.

** Among the other cast members, Clift had been struggling with drug problems ever since he had been seriously injured in a car accident in 1956, and he and Monroe required onset doctors. Monroe allegedly said of working with Clift, "It's good to meet someone who's in worse shape than I am."[[note]] Huston cast Clift in the lead role in his next film, ''Freud: The Secret Passion'', and for that film, it was Clift's drug problems that caused the shoot to go over time and over budget, rendering him uninsurable and unemployable. He only made one other film, the largely forgotten ''The Defector'', in an attempt to show that he was fit to play the male lead in Huston's ''Reflections in a Golden Eye'' opposite his close friend Creator/ElizabethTaylor; he died before filming began on the latter. His final conversation with anyone before his death came when he told his housekeeper "Absolutely ''not!''" when she asked if he wanted to watch a TV screening of ''The Misfits'' that evening.[[/note]]

* CreatorBacklash: Creator/MarilynMonroe later said she hated the film, her performance and her character.

** After Gable's funeral in November 1960, Huston, Miller, and producer Frank Taylor wanted to get the film into cinemas before the end of December to make Gable eligible for a posthumous Best Actor nomination at the following year's Oscars, but post-production had only just begun, and the film did not have a musical score - composer Alex North had not even seen a rough cut of the film, so he had no idea what he was writing for. By early December, it became apparent that the film would not be ready by the end of the year, and although North finished writing and recording the score in just three weeks, the film was released in February 1961, and Huston's hopes of securing Gable a posthumous Oscar nomination were dashed.[[note]] The only nomination the film received was a Director's Guild of America nomination for Huston. He lost to Jerome Robbins, Creator/RobertWise, and Robert Relyea for ''Film/WestSideStory''.[[/note]]

* WrittenInInfirmity: While working a rodeo in Pocatello, Idaho, Creator/MontgomeryClift was bruised on the bridge of his nose. It was exactly the type of injury his character was supposed to have in the film.

** Peter Steele of Music/TypeONegative was going to perform as the band's lead singer for a show in the 90's but didn't know any of the songs, he then recommended a of his who ''did'' know the songs, Michael Graves.

* NamesTheSame: With the rivals of ''WesternAnimation/JemAndTheHolograms''. Not helped by [[ComicBook/JemAndTheHolograms the comic reboot]] in which that version of them is specifically a metal band.