 When actress Marilyn Monroe was filming “The Misfits” with Clark Gable, she shot a nude scene that never made it into the 1961 movie. According to the Daily Mail, author Charles Casillo was doing research for the book Marilyn Monroe: The Private Life of a Public Icon when he discovered that the film’s producer, Frank Taylor, had kept the footage even though most of the unused takes for the film had been destroyed. Casillo interviewed Curtice Taylor, son of Misfits producer Frank Taylor, and learned that he has kept the footage in a locked cabinet since his father’s death in 1999. In the love scene between Monroe and Clark Gable, the actress drops a bedsheet that was covering her nude body. The film’s director, John Huston, left it out of the final cut of the film because he thought it was unnecessary for the story. “Huston sighed and said, ‘Honey, I’ve seen them before.’” 
 
 Arthur Miller, who was Monroe’s husband at the time, wrote the film’s screenplay. It would have been one of the first – if not the first – nude scenes by an American actress in a major production in the sound era of film if it had made it into the final version.
– A Marilyn Monroe nude scene that people thought had been destroyed long ago has been rediscovered—but it's not clear whether it will ever be released. The scene from 1961's The Misfits, the last movie that Monroe completed before her death, was kept by producer Frank Taylor, and his son has been keeping it in a locked cabinet since his father's 1999 death, author Charles Castillo discovered while researching new book Marilyn Monroe: The Private Life of a Public Icon. The scene, in which Monroe drops a sheet during a love scene with Clark Gable, would have been one of the first nude scenes featuring an "American actress in a major production in the sound era of film," according to Deadline. The scene was Monroe's idea, but director John Huston decided it was unnecessary and didn't include it in the final version of the film, which was written by Arthur Miller, Monroe's then-husband, reports the HuffPost. Monroe appeared in a similar scene in her next movie, Something's Got to Give, which was never completed. Curtice Taylor, the producer's son, still hasn't decided what to do with the footage. Jezebel notes that the discovery of the footage poses some "tricky issues," especially since Castillo's book recounts Monroe's grim history of sexual abuse and exploitation. (Hugh Hefner, who used Monroe's photos without her consent in the first Playboy, paid $75,000 to be buried next to her.)