You Must Remember This presents - The Misfits

The World Theatre is excited to host film historian and writer Karina Longworth, creator and host of the acclaimed podcastYou Must Remember This.Longworth will introduce a screening ofThe Misfits(1961), John Huston's classic starring Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift. Her presentation will explore the film and its significance to Montgomery Clift, one of the central figures in the newest season ofYou Must Remember This.Following the screening, Longworth will answer audience questions.AboutYou Must Remember This:You Must Remember Thisexploresthe secret and forgotten histories of 20th-century Hollywood. The podcast has been featured by publications includingVanity Fair,The New YorkerandThe Guardian.The new season of You Must Remember This, launching on September 15, is called "The Bisexuals," and it’s about torch singer -- and accused murderess --LibbyHolman, and her sexually-fluid group of friends and lovers from the 1920s to the end of the 1960s, which included Montgomery Clift, Tallulah Bankhead, Josephine Baker, Nicholas Ray and many more.AboutThe Misfits:John Huston’s masterful revisionist Western has become notorious for showcasing the final performances of an aged Clark Gable and a troubled Marilyn Monroe. Montgomery Clift, the film’s third major star (and subject of the new season of You Must Remember This) would appear in two additional movies that were released before his own untimely death in 1966, but his work inThe Misfitscan still be seen as a bookend for his career. Clift became a movie star in 1948 playing a young cowboy who challenges his mentor in Howard Hawks’sRed River.By the time he was shootingThe Misfitsa dozen years later, playing an overgrown boy/self-destructive rodeo rider, Clift was struggling to reestablish himself in Hollywood, after a near-fatal car crash left him with a changed face and an increasingly debilitating reliance on booze and pills.The Misfitsplays with what the audience knew about Clift’s troubles — including making reference to the actor’s supposedly unrecognizable post-accident visage — but Clift’s heartbreaking performance of a man who can’t get out of his own way transcends these meta winks.