On a budget of $2.2 million, the domestic box-office revenue totaled $7.27 million.The film""s success earned Monroe better roles opposite such stars as Laurence Olivier (as Elsie inThe Prince and the Showgirl (1957)), Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis (as Sugar Kane Kowalczyk inSome Like It Hot (1959)), and Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift (as Roslyn Taber inThe Misfits (1961)), before her untimely death at the age of 36 in 1962.They embrace each other warmly in the long, stone-columned hallway of the Roman garrison lined with spears.He was forced to listen as Tatum described that he would prefer to cover a more impressive and real story that could get major headlines.The Kid offers to split the reward fifty-fifty:I""m heading up north in through Nobrera to Wyoming.I""m gonna kill a couple of no-good cowboys...for cuttin"" up a lady.They cut up her face, cut her eyes out, cut her ears off, hell, hey even cut herteats...A thousand dollars reward, Will.Five hundred apiece.Munny is unresponsive to the tempting offer.In his past, his whiskey drinking encouraged his gunplay, but through the guiding, controlling, taming influence of his late wife, who "passed on.