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They show up at the train station as Josephine and Daphne, the replacement saxophone and bass players. They certainly enjoy being around the girls, especially Sugar Kane Kowalczyk who sings and plays the ukulele. Mayhem ensues as the two men try to keep their true identities hidden and Spats Colombo and his crew show up for a meeting with several other crime lords. Some people still say this is the greatest comedy ever made in Hollywood. Who am I to argue? Even after 45 years, it's still very funny and not the least bit dated. It is one of the true classics in the history of film.
I know one thing: Marilyn Monroe never looked hotter! The film is a wonderful combination of comedy, action, suspense and romance with great old-time gangster scenes played out first in Chicago and then in Miami Beach. George Raft and Nehimiah Persoff are just great as gangsters.
The action scenes are in the beginning and end. In the middle, the bulk of the film, is the main story featuring comedy and romance. Lemmon has the best lines in the film and his facial expressions alone evoke lots of laughter. This film is so famous that there is no need going into detail, but for some younger person reading this, don't worry about this being an old-fashioned, boring black-and-white film your parents or grandparents liked but you would find boring.
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Joe, dressed as Josephine, sees Sugar onstage singing that she will never love again. He kisses her before he leaves, and Sugar realizes that Joe is both Josephine and Junior. Jerry persuades Osgood to take "Daphne" and "Josephine" away on his yacht.
Sugar runs from the stage at the end of her performance and jumps aboard Osgood's launch just as it is leaving the dock with Joe, Jerry, and Osgood. Joe tells Sugar that he is not good enough for her, that she would be getting the "fuzzy end of the lollipop" yet again, but Sugar wants him anyway.
Jerry, for his part, lists reasons why "Daphne" and Osgood cannot marry, ranging from a smoking habit to infertility. Osgood dismisses them all; he loves Daphne and is determined to go through with the marriage. Exasperated, Jerry removes his wig and shouts, "I'm a man! The soundtrack features four songs performed by Marilyn Monroe for the movie, nine songs composed by Adolph Deutsch, as well as 2 songs performed by jazz artist Matty Malneck. He bought the rights to the script and Wilder worked with this to produce a new story.
The studio hired Barbette , a famous female impersonator, to coach Lemmon and Curtis on gender illusion for the film. Tony Curtis was spotted by Billy Wilder while he was making the film Houdini , [10] as he thought Curtis would be perfect for the role of Joe. Diamond didn't expect such a big star as Marilyn Monroe to take the part of Sugar [6] in fact, Wilder said, " Mitzi Gaynor was who we had in mind. The word came that Marilyn wanted the part and then we had to have Marilyn. The film was made in California during the summer and autumn of The Hotel in San Diego fitted into the era of the s and was near Hollywood, so Wilder chose it although it was not in Florida.
There were many problems with Marilyn Monroe, who lacked concentration and suffered from an addiction to pills. She could not memorize many of her lines and required 47 takes to get "It's me, Sugar" correct, instead saying either "Sugar, it's me" or "It's Sugar, me". Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon made bets during the filming on how many takes Marilyn would need to get it right. Billy Wilder said in about filming another movie with Marilyn Monroe: The film's iconic closing line, "Nobody's perfect"—now ranked 78th on The Hollywood Reporter list of Hollywood's Favorite Movie Lines—was never supposed to be in the final cut.
Diamond and Wilder put it in the script as a "placeholder" until they could come up with something better, but never did. With regards to sound design, there is a 'strong musical element' [6] in the film, with the soundtrack created by Adolph Deutsch. It has an authentic s jazz feel using sharp, brassy strings to create tension in certain moments, for example whenever Spats' gangsters appear.
In terms of cinematography and aesthetics, Billy Wilder chose to shoot the film in black and white as Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in full drag costume and make-up looked 'unacceptably grotesque' in early color tests.
Some Like It Hot received widespread acclaim from critics, and is considered among the best films of all time. Roger Ebert wrote about the movie, "Wilder's comedy is one of the enduring treasures of the movies, a film of inspiration and meticulous craft. The website's critical consensus reads, " Some Like It Hot: A spry, quick-witted farce that never drags. In , this film became one of the first 25 inducted into the United States National Film Registry. Though sometimes said to have been "condemned" by the Roman Catholic Church's Legion of Decency , that body gave the film its less critical rating as "morally objectionable".
In , the BBC conducted an international survey for the best comedy in film history among film critics from 50 countries, which ranked Some Like It Hot as number one. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:. 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.
A stage production of this show in London featured Tommy Steele and retained the film's title. Tony Curtis, then in his lates, performed in a stage production of the film, this time cast as Osgood Fielding III, the character originally played by Joe E. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other uses, see Some Like It Hot disambiguation.
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Audible Download Audio Books. Joe convinces Jerry that he cannot actually marry Osgood. The website's critical consensus reads, " Some Like It Hot: View All Critic Reviews The film's iconic closing line, "Nobody's perfect"—now ranked 78th on The Hollywood Reporter list of Hollywood's Favorite Movie Lines—was never supposed to be in the final cut. Alice Shen Super Reviewer.
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