Marilyn Returns to Old Town Dayton

Marilyn filming ‘The Misfits’ inside the bar at the Odeon Hall on Pike Street, Dayton

The town of Dayton, Nevada is rightly proud of its connections to Marilyn and The Misfits, as Carson Now reports. On Wednesday, November 14, Laura Tennant of theĀ Historical Society of Dayton Valley will give a presentation on the movie which was partly filmedĀ on the streets of Dayton and the Stagecoach Flats in the summer of 1960. There will also be a photo display. This free event is at the Dayton Valley Community Center at 170 Pike Street, Old Town Dayton, beginning at 7 p.m. with refreshments. and the presentation starts at 7:30 p.m.

A scene from ‘The Misfits’, with Marilyn and her co-stars on the corner of Pike and Main Streets in Dayton, Nevada