20. forever alone. austin, texas. big hearted, independent. london, wine, and edie sedgwick. dull colors, wet hair, baggy clothes, short shorts, boots and silver. london is home. forgiving nature & sloppy cursive. i have a thing for tattoos, loud music, and food.
creating life as you go
is finding new people to smoke with. two new people in the past two days! woo!
1960: Marilyn and Clark Gable on the set of The Misfits. Marilyn admired Gable for most of her life, mainly due to the fact that a photograph of the man she believed to be her father which hung in her home while she lived with her mother, Gladys Baker, bared what she thought was a striking resemblance to Gable due to the thin moustache both men wore. Many biographies have claimed that, as a child, Norma Jeane (Marilyn) would tell classmates that Gable was in fact her father. When Gable collapsed and died of a heart attack shortly after completing The Misfits the press were quick to blame Marilyn, suggesting her lateness etc. had put Gable under severe stress and strain. This left Marilyn heartbroken - being accused of being responsible for the death of a man she had idolized as a child without a doubt added to the pain she was feeling at the time (her marriage to Arthur Miller, who ironically wrote The Misfits as a gift to Marilyn, just about ended while on set). The Misfits was the last film completed by both Marilyn and Clark (although she would go on to begin production on Something’s Got to Give in 1962, she died before completing the film) and evidently, on the night Montgomery Clift (who also starred in the film) died, six years later, the film was on television. His live in assistant asked Clift if he wanted to watch the film, to which he replied “absolutely not” before retiring to his bedroom, these were the last words he spoke to anyone. He was found dead in bed the next morning having suffered a heart attack.
(via elleryqueen)
