"The Misfits" required some reshoots, which led Gable to work an extra three weeks on the film, per the Los Angeles Times. After the project wrapped, he and his wife went back to California, to their home in Encino, in November 1960. Gable soon experienced a health crisis, suffering a heart attack on November 6. The star was taken to the hospital for treatment, and he seemed to be doing okay. But only 10 days later, Gable died suddenly in his bed at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital. The nurse with him at the time Gable was sitting up one moment and gone the next. His death came only hours after having dinner with his wife in his room there. It was suspected that he had been struck by yet another heart attack. Gable was 59 years old.
Newspaper headlines remembered Gable as one of film's top stars. He was laid to rest beside his third wife, Carole Lombard, at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles, according to Turner Classic Movies. Gable never got a chance to see the success of "The Misfits," which was released in 1961. The movie also proved to be the final performance of his co-star Marilyn Monroe. Gable never got the opportunity to see his son, John Clark Gable, who was born four months after Clark's death, according to United Press International.
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