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.Although struggling o keep awake, he had a dream vision of his brother in the bathtub with bloody water - Bobby had slashed his wrists (flashback/dream death) and his blood had dripped from the tub onto the floor, where blood tendrils held Mark""s feet to the floor." When Deborah returned from work, she found Michael sitting on the home""s front steps, cradling Boo.[Note: During the ""Russian Roulette"" sequence, none of the words of the Vietcong were subtitled, helping to dehumanize them.