The 1964 movie Marilyn Monroe died before she could make: “The film was a dud”When Marilyn Monroe was just 36 years old, she was found dead in her Los Angeles home, cutting an incredible career as one of Hollywood’s most admired stars tragically short. There was so much that Monroe wanted to do in both her personal and professional life that never came to fruition, including many movie roles that she’d expressed interest in shortly before her death. One of these was a movie that, these days, is regarded as somewhat of an underrated campy classic. Yet, upon its release in 1964, it received incredibly mixed reviews, prompting its leading star to call it a “dud”. It’s hard to say, and that’s something that we’ll never know – although that’s not to say that MacLaine didn’t do a great job as Louisa.