1959

" Some like it hot" ( director: Billy Wilder)

Plot:

Lemmon and Curtis play two musicians who accidentally stumble upon the St Valentine's Day massacre in Chicago. With gangsters after them, they have little choice but to disguise themselves as women and join a girls' music band. They befriend MM - who plays the band's singer. Curtis falls in love with her but he can't reveal to her that he's really a man, while a rich playboy falls madly in love with Lemmon!..

Some trivia:

**Billy Wilder's first choice for the part of Daphne/Jerry was Frank Sinatra. Also, his initial choice for the part of Sugar was Mitzi Gaynor.

**Marilyn wanted the film to be shot in colour, but Wilder told her that it should be shot in black and white since the makeup Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon wore in the film gave their faces a green tinge.

**Wilder's comment on the making of the film: "I knew we were in midflight,and there was a nut on the plane".

**Marilyn had trouble remembering her lines. On one occasion, 47 takes were required to get "It's me, Sugar".She would say "Sugar,it's me" or "It's Sugar,me". On another occasion,Marilyn had to rummage through some drawers and say "Where's that bourbon?".Marilyn just couldn't remember this line, she would say "Where's the whiskey?","Where's the bottle?" or "Where's the bonbon?". 59 takes were required to get it right!

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Here are some quotes from the movie:(MM is Sugar,Curtis is Josephine/Joe and Lemmon is Daphne/Jerry).

Joe (apologising because the motor boat will only move backwards): I'm afraid it may take a little longer.

Sugar: It's not how long it takes, it's who's taking you.

Sugar: Real diamonds! They must be worth their weight in gold!

Josephine: But you're not a girl, you're a guy! And why would a guy want to marry a guy?

Daphne: Security!

Josephine: You've gotta keep telling yourself you're a boy.

Daphne:I'm a boy?

Josephine: You're a boy.

Daphne: I'm a boy.

Josephine: That's the boy.

Daphne: Oh boy, I'm a boy.

Sugar: It's the story of my life. I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.

Daphne: Have I got things to tell you! I'm engaged!

Josephine:Who's the lucky girl?

Daphne: I am!

Daphne: You don't understand, Osgood. (Takes off his wig): I'm a man!

Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.

Daphne: Look at the way she moves! That's just like jell-O on springs! Must have some sort of built-in motor or something. I tell you, it's a whole different sex!

Daphne: Now you've done it!

Josephine: Done what?

Daphne: You tore off one of my chests!

Joe: Tomorrow we go to the dog track and put everything on Grease Lightning.

Jerry: You're gonna bet my money on a dog?

Joe: I got it from the waiter.

Jerry: Suppose he loses.

Joe: Don't worry.This job will last.

Jerry: Suppose it doesn't.

Joe: Jerry, why do you paint everything so black?

Jerry: Suppose a truck hits you. Suppose the stock market crashes. Suppose Mary Pickford divorces Douglas Fairbanks. Suppose the Dodgers leave Brooklyn. Suppose Lake Michigan overflows.

Joe: Well, don't look now, but the whole town is underwater.

Joe: There's a dog running in the third-gallopping ghost.

Jerry: What do you want? My head on a plate?!

Mr. Bienstock: Didn't you say you went to a conservatory?

Josephine: Yes, for a whole year.

Mr. Bienstock: You said three.

Josephine: We got time off for good behaviour.

Josephine ( to Daphne): He's your date for tonight, so smile..You can do better than that. Give him the teeth, the whole personality.

"The seduction scene":

Joe (pretending to be a millionaire):It's the crew's night off.

Sugar: We're alone?

Joe: Completely.

Sugar: I've never been completely alone with a man before in the middle of the night, of the ocean.

Joe: It's safe. We're well anchored. The ship's in shipshape shape. The coast guard will call if there were icebergs around.

Sugar: It's not the icebergs. Certain men would try to take advantage of a situation like this.

Joe: You're flattering me.

Sugar: I'm sure you're a gentleman.

Joe: It's not that. It's just that I'm harmless.

Sugar: Harmless? How?

Joe: I've got this thing about girls. They just leave me cold.

Sugar: Like frigid?

Joe: It's more like a mental block. When I'm with a girl, it does absolutely nothing to me.

Sugar: Have you tried?

Joe: Have I? I'm trying all the time. (They kiss).See? Nothing.

Sugar: Nothing at all?

Joe: Complete washout.

Sugar: That makes me feel just awful.

Joe: It's not your fault. Now and then, Mother-Nature throws somebody a dirty curve. Something goes wrong inside.

Sugar: You can't fall in love?

Joe: Not anymore. I was in love once.

Sugar: What happened?

Joe:It was my fresh year at Princeton. There was this girl named Nellie. She wore glasses too. That summer we spent our vacation at the Grand Canyon. We were standing on the highest ledge, watching the sunset, when suddenly we got the impluse to kiss. We took off our glasses. I took a step toward her, she stepped toward me..

Sugar:Oh, no!

Joe: Yes. Eight hours later, they brought her up by mule. I gave her three transfusions. We had the same bloodtype -O- but it was too late. Ever since then.. numb. No feelings. Like my heart was shot full of novocaine.

Sugar: You poor, poor, boy.

Joe: Yes. All the money in the world, and what good is it? Mint sauce or cranberries?

Sugar: How can you think about food now?!

Joe: What else is there for me?

Sugar: Is it that hopeless?

Joe: My family did everything they could. Hired the most beautiful, upstairs, french maids, read me those books banned in Boston, imported a whole group of Balinese dancers with bells on their ankles and long fingernails..What a waste of money.

Sugar: Have you ever tried American girls?

Joe: Why? Was that anything? Thanks, just the same.

Sugar: You should see a doctor, a good doctor.

Joe: I have. I spent 6 months in Vienna with Pr. Freud, flat on my back. Then the Mayo brothers, injections, hypnosis, mineral baths..If I wasn't a coward, I'd kill myself.

Sugar: Don't say that. There must be some girl some place that could..

Joe: If I found that girl that could, I'd marry her just like that.

Sugar: I may not be Dr. Freud or a Mayo brother, but could I take another crack at it?

Joe: Alright, if you insist. (Kiss)

Sugar: Anything this time:

Joe: I'm afraid not.

Sugar: Terribly sorry. Would you like some more champagne? Maybe if we had some music.. How do you dim those lights?

Joe: It's sweet of you to want to help, but it's no use. I think the light switch is over there.

Sugar: That's the radio.

Joe: It's like taking someone to a concert when he's tone deaf.

(Music plays)

Sugar: You're not giving yourself a chance. Relax.

Joe: It's like smoking without inhaling.

Sugar: So, inhale! (kiss) Well?

Joe: I'm not quite sure. Would you try it again? I got a funny sensation on my toes, like someone was barbecuing them over a slow flame.

Sugar: Let's throw another log in the fire. (kiss)

Joe: I think you're on the right track.

Sugar: I must be. Your glasses are beginning to steam up!

1960

" Let's make Love" ( director: George Cukor)

Plot:

Billionaire industrialist Jean-Marc Clemond (Yves Montand) discovers that an off- Broadway show in pre-production is satirizing him. He goes to the theater and he sees Amanda Dell (Marilyn Monroe) rehearsing a song. The director of the show thinks him an actor suited to play himself in the revue. Jean-Marc hides his true identity and accepts to take the part, hoping to convince Amanda to marry him..

Some trivia:

**Arthur Miller revised the script in order to emphasize Marilyn's role.After that,Gregory Peck - the initial choice for the part of Jean-Marc Clemond - left the project, unhappy about the fact that his role had been diminished.He also said that the script was now "about as funny as pushing grandma down the stairs in a wheelchair!".

**Marilyn's comments about the film: " When we did "Let's Make Love", George Cukor thought it would be better to let me come in an hour late so I'd be fresher at the end of the day. I think actors in movies work too long hours anyway".

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1961

"The Misfits" ( director: John Huston)

Plot:

Roslyn Taber (Marilyn Monroe) divorces her husband Ray and meets Guido,a widower. He introduces her to a cowboy,Guido,and they fall in love. Gay's, Guido's and Perce's job is to kill wild horses (misfits) and sell them to dogfood companies. When Marilyn finds out what they do for a living she's shocked and protests..

Some trivia:

** United Artists executives didn't approve the rough cut of the film, so several scenes had to be reshot. Gable rejected the idea. A shot of Marilyn's naked breast in the bedroom scene, was also eliminated in the final cut.

**Marilyn was once so late to show up on the set,that Gable felt so bored that he decided to do his own stunts, including a scene where he's being dragged by a truck travelling at 30 mph.

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