With Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon cast as her co-stars, shooting commenced in good spirit, but quickly deteriorated into a grueling ordeal, with Monroe’s newly adopted method acting technique and her inability to remember even the simplest of lines often requiring upwards of 35 takes. Although determined to avoid the “dumb blonde” roles of her early career, Monroe trusted Wilder’s judgment after their happy collaboration on The Seven Year Itch, and became convinced that Some Like it Hot would provide her with a star showcase. But after a two-year absence from Hollywood, Marilyn Monroe was between projects while waiting for her playwright husband Arthur Miller to finish the screenplay he was writing for her titled The Misfits. Diamond, Wilder originally envisioned the script as a vehicle for Bob Hope and Danny Kaye, with Mitzi Gaynor as Sugar. Co-writing with his longtime collaborator I.A.L. However, Wilder decided to focus on the cross-dressing episode in the original film for the overall plot for Some Like it Hot. Brown as Osgood Fielding III, a most eager bachelor millionaire with one of the most memorable final lines in movie history.ĭirector Billy Wilder found his inspiration for Some Like it Hot in the 1935 French comedy Fanfare of Love, which followed a pair of musicians as they adopted disguises to get jobs in different bands. With these two foxes in the chicken coop, the temperature starts to rise as Joe and Jerry strive to take full advantage of their new identities without blowing their cover.Īlso featured in cameo roles are legendary movie gangster George Raft as mob boss “Spats” Colombo, and Joe E. “The Girls” are almost the last aboard-that is, until the hasty arrival of Sugar Kane Kowalczyk, the band’s bombshell ukulele player and lead vocalist unforgettably embodied by Marilyn Monroe.
And creative it is the boys arrive at the train station as “Josephine and Daphne,” the emergency replacements for “Sweet Sue’s Society of Syncopators,” an all-female band en route to sunny Miami. Now suddenly on the lam from a pack of gangsters, Joe and Jerry have to figure out a creative way to skip town undetected. Knocking on door after door without success, the duo is resigned to taking a one-night gig out of town when they become witnesses to the infamous St.
Already low on cash and with the raid cancelling their next payday, the pair is desperate for a job-any job-to survive the harsh Illinois winter. Set in Prohibition era Chicago, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon play Joe and Jerry, a pair of jazz musicians who find themselves caught in the middle of a speakeasy raid. This week’s classic is Some Like it Hot, the 1959 romantic comedy directed by Billy Wilder.
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