Aug 07, 2009 · Fri 7 Aug 2009 11.28 EDT. It was while filming Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot in 1958 that Tony Curtis made his infamous remark that shooting a love scene with co-star Marilyn Monroe was "like ...
Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American romantic comedy film directed, produced and co-written by Billy Wilder.It stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, with George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee, Grace Lee Whitney and Nehemiah Persoff in supporting roles. The screenplay by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is based on a screenplay by Robert Thoeren and …
This image appears in the gallery: 10 On Screen Couples Who Couldn’t Stand Each Other. 7. Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe in 'Some Like It Hot'. Tony Curtis famously compared kissing 'Some Like ...
Apr 18, 2008 · When they worked on Some Like It Hot, he says she had "gone funny. Her mind was all over the place. She had lost confidence". In one scene, Curtis and Monroe romance each other on the sofa of a yacht.
Apr 07, 2015 · Some like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)With Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon & Joan Shawlee
Cast. Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot. Marilyn Monroe as Sugar "Kane" Kowalczyk, a ukulele player and singer. Tony Curtis as Joe/"Josephine"/"Shell Oil Junior", a saxophone player. Jack Lemmon as Jerry (Gerald)/"Daphne", a double bass player. George Raft as "Spats" Colombo, a mobster from Chicago.
Billy Wilder wrote the script for the film with writer I.A.L. Diamond. The plot was based on a screenplay by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan for the 1935 French film Fanfare of Love. The original script for Fanfare of Love was untraceable, so Walter Mirisch found a copy of the 1951 German remake, Fanfares of Love. He bought the rights to that script, and Wilder worked with this to produce a new story. Both films follow the story of two musicians in search of work, but Wilder created the gangster subplot that keeps the musicians on the run.
Tony Curtis was spotted by Billy Wilder while he was making the film Houdini (1953), and he thought Curtis would be perfect for the role of Joe. "I was sure Tony was right for it," explained Wilder, "because he was quite handsome, and when he tells Marilyn that he is one of the Shell Oil family, she has to be able to believe it". Wilder's first idea for the role of Jerry was Frank Sinatra, but he did not come to the audition. Jerry Lewis and Danny Kaye were also considered for the role of Jerry. Finally, Wilder saw Jack Lemmon in the comedy Operation Mad Ball and selected him for the part. Wilder and Lemmon would go on to make numerous films together, including The Apartment and several films which also included Walter Matthau .
An unsold television pilot was filmed by Mirisch Productions in 1961 featuring Vic Damone and Tina Louise. As a favor to the production company, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis agreed to film cameo appearances, returning as their original characters, Daphne and Josephine, at the beginning of the pilot. Their appearance sees them in a hospital where Jerry (Lemmon) is being treated for his impacted back tooth and Joe (Curtis) is the same O blood type.
In 1951, Curtis married Janet Leigh. "She had a magnificent bosom," he muses. Although he says "women usually treated me badly", I point out that he could not have been an ideal husband. "Janet was unfaithful to me," he says. I venture he must have chased other women. "Yes, I did," he replies in an off-hand way.
Tony Curtis on Marilyn Monroe: It was like kissing Hitler! Tony Curtis, Hollywood legend and star of the Billy Wilder classic Some Like It Hot, is sitting on a balcony in London giving me a welcoming stare from underneath a Stetson hat.
Curtis' famous reply when asked by reporters what it was like to kiss Marilyn Monroe: "It was like kissing Hitler .". * According to Billy Wilder (referring to Marilyn Monroe): "We were mid-flight and we had a nut on board.
* The film's final, classic line "Well, nobody's perfect," delivered by Joe E. Brown after his "girlfriend" Jack Lemmon reveals he is really a man, was actually just a throwaway line.