There are several lines that are better. "Nobody's perfect," after all, is a familiar phrase. The best original lines are in Dinner at Eight, My Man Godfrey, and The Professionals. Another Wilder film Sunset Boulevard has a great closing line too.
It's so bizarre for a film being this old, for this day and age of mainstream conceptions of gender and orientation, that this film still holds up as well as it does. It's _astonishing_ how much it still works.
The bit Lemon does with the maracas (he said years later) was the BEST piece of direction any director ever gave him. It broke up his lines and allowed the audience to laugh and pay close attention to his lines between the maracas sound. Great movie! I also really love Wilder's Love in the Afternoon (Audrey Hepburn)...
Part of the decision to shoot in Black & White was because it was more forgiving of Tony’s and Jack’s makeup. Like you said, the stars aligned. Perfect film.
They filmed this at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego. It was near Camp Pendleton, the Marine Corps Base. My Charlie, who fought in WWll, spent a lot of time there before he shipped out. Also Joe E Brown was the only entertainer he ever saw overseas. Joe’s son had been killed early on in the war, and he spent his own money to bring his shows to the front line troops. Charlie and the other guys were thrilled to get a show but when Brown came out on the stage and saw the roped off area for officers only, he refused to perform until they took it down. Charlie surged right up front and had his hands on the stage, he was so close. They all adored Joe E Brown.
"Now you've done it. You broke one of my chests," is one of my favorite lines from any comedy. Regarding people shining, there are just some women who have skin like that. The night I saw _Hairspray_ on Broadway Nicole Kidman was in the audience, about two rows away from me. She positively glowed, and that was just in the house lights, not stage lights. She was more beautiful in person than she appeared on film. Joe E. Brown was a hugely popular comic actor in the 30s-40s. He was famous for his wide mouth, and a wide-mouthed yell became his signature. Aside from his comic timing still being impeccable, in '59 there'd also be a certain nostalgia value to casting him.
When he was being pressured to replace MM Billy Wilder said, "You know, I've got an aunt who would show up on time, know her lines, not make any trouble. You know what else? Nobody would pay a dime to see my aunt to star in this picture "
I heard that comment differently...or separately, I should say. Wilder, if I recall correctly, told the producers that either Monroe had to be dismissed...or he would go. They told him to reconsider, for they weren't about to replace Monroe. He wasn't happy with Monroe's behavior, but he knew that she had something which his aunt (did he call her "my Aunt Tillie"? I seem to think he did) didn't have, and never would have. He used a car image with her: Monroe was a Cadillac in playing a smart dumb blonde, and while it should have been easy to find someone with that knack, it wasn't: too many directors began shooting and found that their Cadillac was actually a Pontiac. "With Mr. Swann, you forgive a lot, you know?" as chauffeur Alfie says in "My Favorite Year," and Wilder could have echoed him on Monroe...at least with this film On the other hand, Wilder's next film, "The Apartment," takes some digs at Monroe.
Tony Curtis pitched the idea of doing a Cary Grant impression to Billy Wilder. Billy had always wanted to work with Cary Grant and loved the idea. At some point Billy Wilder asked Cary Grant how he liked Tony Curtis doing an impression of him. Cary Grant got mad and said "I don't sound like that"!
Two things I now want to know. One, if anyone ever told Cary Grant that that is what he sounded like (more or less). Two, what Cary Grant's natural English accent had been before he changed his name and got into the movies.
There’s a short TCM tribute to Cary Grant, done by Tony Curtis, who talks about worshipping Cary as a kid and wanting to be in movies and be just like him. Very touching. He finally got to work with Cary in Operation Petticoat, right before he did Some Like It Hot.
I was lucky to have Dinner with Tony Curtis,. He was much older and had white hair. We talked about "Some Like It Hot". While frustrated by Marilyn''s behavior he also felt sorry for her. He commented on what a wonderful Comedic Actress she was when things were running smoothly, The Voice Actor who helped Tony with his Feminine voice was Paul Frees. Frees was Boris Badanov in the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons and is the voice of the Ghost Host in Disney's Haunted Mansion. At this time he was in a Stage Version of Some Like It Hot playing the Joe E, Brown Character, Osgood Fielding III. A really nice, funny guy, No big ego just Bernie Swartz,
From the opening line to the hilarious closer, every word of dialogue seamlessly segues into the next with one hilarious double entendre after another. Heard or read, there isn't a single wasted word to be found anywhere in this script.
The beginning killing scene is based on the St. Valentines day massacre She shines in color, in black n white, she could shine in plaid , infrared , whatever. She just shined all over
Finally, Some Like It Hot is one of my favorite movies. Trivia - The Florida scenes are filmed at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego. I had a chance to visit. Very nice. Also, the hotel was where L. Frank Baum wrote a good portion of The Wizard of Oz.
46:14 Story going around that originally Osgood was going to say "I know" when Jerry said "I'm a man", but they felt it would make the audience uncomfortable (or something like that) so they changed it - frankly speaking, "Nobody's perfect" is a better line anyhow.
Zowie! Great review. Fun fact: Maracas were added to morning after scene where Daphnie announces his engagement because the test audience was laughing so hard at Jack's lines, no one heard Tony's.
Can't go wrong with this movie. Marilyn at her most gorgeous, Jack Lemmon in drag, Tony Curtis doing Cary Grant, and the legendary Joe E Brown. Plus a dose of Edward G Robinson.
8:42 this but also heavy make up on Curtis and Lemmon's faces looked really funny and grotesque in color, that's the main reason why Wilder decided to film it in black and white
I idolize Billy Wilder. Probably my favorite director all time. The Apartment is my fave movie and this is up there as well. I feel that the closing lines of both of them are maybe my 2 favorite closing lines ever: “Well, Nobody’s Perfect” “Shut up and deal”
Wilder is simply one of the best to ever do it, both as a director and as a writer. And English is not even his native tongue. He had as many classics that started with one letter of the alphabet as most directors do in a lifetime. Sabrina, Some Like It Hot, Stalag 17, and Sunset Boulevard. The letter 'S' was very good to him...and to us. Probably my favorite director as well.
Marilyn has very slight blond peach fuzz on her cheeks (they say it was because she used Vaseline on her face ( which doesn’t sound possible) Anyway her skin & peach fuzz helped her Glow 🌟 By the way, my Husband’s Great grandmother was an immigrant from Italy & had a job making movie costumes and she worked on the beading for the dress that Marilyn wore when she sang at the end of the movie. ✨🌟✨
Fun fact, and also in Marilyn’s defense: For the beach scenes, Billy Wilder and his picture company Ashton Productions were resigned to taking at least three days shooting. But when everything was set to go, Marilyn got that entire sequence (beginning when Tony shows up as “Shell Oil, Jr.” to Marilyn and Jack running away to the hotel) … IN ONE TAKE. Let me emphasize that again: IN. ONE. TAKE. Billy Wilder was shocked into complete silence for a couple of seconds, then he yelled at the top of his lungs, “PRINT!!!”
I was lucky to watch this movie at the cinema for a Classics Festival, and it was amazing. I loved watching the crowd, mostly people in the late teen and early twenties just laughing non stop. That movie's sense of humor is timeless.
21:29 All of a sudden one year I realised just how sorry I felt for Sugar in that scene - and in the scene when she mentioned the guy throwing coleslaw in her face because they were out of potato salad.
and I love how Joe remembers this. A huge sign that you're in love is when you remember little things that your love interest says in passing. At the end of the film, Joe recalls and mentions not only Sugar's experience with the coleslaw, but also the times that she has been abandoned by lovers in the past who left behind only their old socks and an empty toothpaste tube. Just the fact that he remembers all this, and knows how wrong all that stuff is and that she deserves better, shows us his relationship with her is gonna last.
Tony Curtis’ voice as Josephine was dubbed by Paul Frees, who was famous for voicing many of the Jay Ward cartoons (Rocky and Bullwinkle, etc.). He also provided the dubbed English voice of Toshiro Mifune in the films Midway and Grand Prix.
If you do a gangster month, the best way to wrap it up is "White Heat" (1949). Tackled the genre almost a decade after it fell out of fashion, but it hit the beats and tropes at a much better quality, and Jimmy Cagney's performance is (to put it mildly) dynamite.
let's see, you got "the public enemy," "scarface," "the petrified forrest," "dead end," "angels with dirty faces" and "the roaring twenties" are ALSO all great gangster films from the 30s. i got all them as well as "white heat" in my dvd collection. i just saw where she watched "bringing up baby!" excellent! someone's finally watching some great PAST, NOT OLD, but GREAT past movies. good for her. good job. i could turn her on to MANY great movies from 1896 on! the 20th century is FULL of remarkable films that are, sadly, ignored today. bogart, cagney, grant, katherine hepburn, jimmy stewart all made some REALLY GREAT films in their long and productive acting careers. might i suggest 1948's "the snake pit" starring Olivia de Havilland?
Tony Curtis said he worked with drag queen friends on Josephine. I think it shows, like he's channeling Clara Bow! Wilder was one of those people who said, in the final edit, Marilyn always looked and sounded great, no matter the background issues. That's movie magic!
Yes! I was waiting for this. It gets better everytime i watch it. I love your inputs during the reaction. You have become my favorite channel. Thank you for the time you take to make these videos.
i just saw where she watched "bringing up baby!" excellent! someone's finally watching some great PAST, NOT OLD, but GREAT past movies. good for her. good job. i could turn her on to MANY great movies from 1896 on! the 20th century is FULL of remarkable films that are, sadly, ignored today. bogart, cagney, grant, katherine hepburn, jimmy stewart all made some REALLY GREAT films in their long and productive acting careers. might i suggest 1948's "the snake pit" starring Olivia de Havilland?
IM so glad I found this channel , Ive been trying to get a few others to do these classic films, THAT scene with JACK and M Monroe is one of the funniest ever with "DAphne" trying to stay in control- " IM a Girl" and M Monroe was I believe startin to show her pregnancy and thats why she was in dark outfits
They shot it in black and white because in screen tests Jack Lemmon's and Tony Curtis's makeup made them look green. No joke. Believe it or not, the father of the founder of Shell Oil made a living selling sea shells. Marcus Samuel, Jr. named the company in honor of his father's business. The bit on the beach where Shell Oil Junior holds up the seashell is based on reality. No, I am not making this up. Tony Curtis got so frustrated working with Marilyn that he said kissing her was like kissing Hitler. He regretted it, and distanced himself from what he had said, although I don't think he ever apologized for it. Just for fun, here's a 1922 recording of Miss Patricola singing Runnin' Wild: ruclips.net/video/OxohAsH1Yaw/видео.html And from 1928, here's Helen Kane singing I Wanna Be Loved by You: ruclips.net/video/hclK-UKJNgk/видео.html Thanks for another fun reaction!
He said in an interview (dick cavatt?) that he was totally joking and it was taken the wrong way. As if any man could make out with Marilyn and not be in heaven!!! I believe him because the question is too ridiculous.
I went to the opening of an art exhibit of paintings by Tony Curtis (I got to meet him and Jamie Lee and Christopher Guest, among others). The exhibit included a painting of Marilyn - it was clear he really loved her!
The scene between Sugar and Joe actually has some reality in it. Cary Grant for years lived with fellow actor Randolph Scott. Although both of them married women, there were rumors that the two men were a couple. Grant at one point replied that if a woman thought he was gay, she would be only too willing to help "cure" him.
So Mia, now that you are familiar with Jack Lemmon and William Powell, is it time to watch Mister Roberts and get better acquainted with Henry Fonda and James Cagney?
No one is reacting to James Cagney. Perhaps a top 3 male actor of the 20th century. "The Roaring 20's" might be my fav. Captures the prohibition era, music, and a touching love story to boot.
I never put it together before now. Marilyn especially losing it at the bourbon line. Of course. In the scene, her character has just been informed she's been rejected by another man she hoped for. If she was doing method acting, she'd have to get in touch with all her feelings of rejection. Yipes. (Also recommend Billy Wilder's "Sunset Boulevard")
Good to see you’ve enjoyed The Apartment and Some Like It Hot, two of Billy Wilder’s most standout flicks. Now, there’s Sabrina (if you haven’t already seen it) and arguably his two best movies, Sunset Boulevard and Double Indemnity.
@@etherealtb6021 That was a horrible movie and terribly miscast with old Bogart...you wouldn't choose him over William Holden. They were supposed to cast Cary Grant in Bogarts role.
Paul Frees, the legendary voice actor who provided the falsetto voice for Tony Curtis is also heard, briefly, overdubbing the dialog of the "undertaker" at the entrance of the speakeasy.
@@MoviesWithMia "Key Largo" is so great: Robinson, but also Bogart and Bacall. You could do a whole month of just Bogart and Bacall. But Edward G. Robinson is so underrated -- one of the most consistently effective actors in Hollywood. When he plays a villain (as in "Key Largo") he's chilling. When he plays a nice guy, he's among the most sympathetic.
For Pat O'Brien+Cagney watch 'Angels with Dirty Faces', 'The Roaring 20's' has Cagney v/s Bogart. The Latter is good in 'The Big Shot'. Curtis and Lemon later did 'The Great Race'- a bit long but has funny moments+Natalie Wood. For recent Black and White watch 'The Artist'.
Pat O'Brien, who plays the cop in the speakeasy often played a cop or a priest in the 30s, and, in at least one movie, "Angels with Dirty Faces", was a wonderfully straight character opposite James Cagney. Spats is George Raft, who was famous for tossing and catching a coin, and for turning down roles that Humphrey Bogart picked up. He was a very decent actor, with a wild private life. He and Bogart did act together once in a movie I like a lot, about truckers and the corruption in the business, "They Drive By Night". Apparently Marilyn was very concerned about not being photographed in color; she felt it was important. Wilder promised her that she would be as magnificent in black and white as she was in color, and of course, he managed to do it! One of the reasons he wanted it in black and white was his own concern that color might make Lemmon's and Curtis' female make-up too exaggerated for the audience. Joe E. Brown as Osgood, famous for that wide, wide mouth and smile. I first saw him in the 1930s version of "Midsummer Night's Dream", where, ironically, his character dresses in drag for the play within the play at the end. He made child-me roll on the floor and I have loved him ever since. Here's a fun TCM short with Tony Curtis praising Cary Grant, and giving his reasons for doing Grant for this movie: ruclips.net/video/lS33i-ju1yU/видео.html. "I Wanna Be Loved By You" was written by the team of Kalmer and Ruby, who wrote songs for the Marx Brothers. A highly fictionalized movie of their lives, "Three Little Words" was made, starring Fred Astaire and Red Skelton (I love it though it really isn't very good). In one scene they "show" how the song was composed. A young Debbie Reynolds plays Helen Kane, who originally sang the song (and was the voice of Olive Oyl of Popeye fame). Here's the clip of Debbie Reynolds dubbed by Helen Kane herself, singing the song in what I think was its original setting: ruclips.net/video/ayMDaVZ1fhk/видео.html My intro to Tony Curtis was in a movie about Harry Houdini, which also starred his wife, Janet Leigh, the mother of his daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis. Janet Leigh is also Marion from "Psycho". He is handsome, and also very funny, and also very good at drama. I also like him in a movie in which he supports Gregory Peck, "Captain Newman, MD". It's a war movie that moves a little uneasily in tone, but he is unfailingly charming as a scrounge of infinite resources. I found the whole movie on RUclips here: ruclips.net/video/tNsgsso8nYg/видео.html. The scene I'm thinking of starts at about 1hour and 30 minutes in. You don't need to know the story to relish the moment. Tony Curtis, incidentally, was a nice Jewish boy from the Bronx, so seeing him at this moment is a lot like the fun of watching Irish James Cagney converse in Yiddish, which he does in a couple of movies. Nice touch that in their last dress up as Josephine and Daphne, they aren't wearing make-up, because there was no time. Lemmon and Curtis act together again in a very long, very, very, very funny slapstick movie, "The Great Race", another movie our family can quote at painful length. It also features Natalie Wood in a wonderful role, and Peter Falk managing to steal scenes without effort. Keenan Wynn, one of those great supporting actors who turn up unexpectedly and are wonderful to see, also has a role here.
Joe E. Brown also appeared in drag in the wonderful comedy western "Shut My Big Mouth". In one scene he danced with Victor Jory! (If you ever see that film you may find yourself wondering, as I have, just how the last shot made it by the censors.)
I think "Houdini" was also the first time I ever saw Tony Curtis in anything. Pretty decent biopic as those things go. I've heard of "Captain Newman, MD" but don't think I've ever seen it. Have to give it a watch, thanks for the link.
Yes, a big "in joke" in 1959 modern audiences might miss, is the previous careers of the older leads in the film. But what's great about this film is their parts work whether you know their history or not!
What is amazing is they only had 60 pages of the movie written when they first started filming. Most of the movie was written the day before the next days shoot.
I love this movie and, everyone is brilliant in it. I’ve seen all of Monroe’s work and, can’t help always feeling sad for her. I think she deserved more of a chance and, I think because she really didn’t most of the time is why there were issues. Just my thoughts.
I read somewhere that Joe Brown's original line, when Jack Lemon said "I'm a man", was "I know". It was then changed to "nobody's perfect" to make it more acceptable to the studio / audience of the time. I'm not sure which I prefer.
Tony Curtis and Jack Lemon did another movie together. I think you would like it. It's called The Great Race. It's a long one, 2 hours and 40 minutes. Jack Lemon actually plays 2 characters. It also stars Natalie Wood and Peter Falk. It's an action/adventure movie but is loaded with comedy. It was done in 1965 and was directed by Blake Edwards.
Those hotel scenes were filmed in San diego..the Hotel del Coronado. I've stayed there many times. Very elegant, very stately, very old...for CA. Right on a beautiful SC beach, as seen.
The fact that this 130 year old historical lamdmark is in my hometown is awesome. I especially love the early photos of it when it was first built, the haunted aspect, etc. The Sunday brunch they have there is a nice bonus! ;)
OMG amazing film a true masterpiece very classic Some Like It Hot produced and directed by Billy Wilder starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, Joe E. Brown, Pat O'Brien and music score by Adolph Deutsch. This film was nominated for 6 Oscars and won 1 for best costume design and was nominated for 3 Golden Globe awards and won 3 including best actor by Jack Lemmon, best actress by Marilyn Monroe and best picture. The famous line in this film is "Well, nobody's perfect". Thank you Mia Tiffany great reaction very awesome😊😊😊😊
Yay!!!! I can't wait to see your reaction tot his - it's a Classic. One reason this was filmed in B&W was that it made the make-up for Jack & Tony much easier and less expensive. George Raft was an excellent ballroom dancer and spent time on set teaching Joe E. and Jack how to dance. Flipping a coin was his "trademark" in his early career playing gangsters. The St. Valentine's Day Massacre was a real event in Chicago between 2 rival gangs. The Shell Oil Company did start out importing shells from China in the 1800's. Tony Curtis said that he did model his voice after Cary Grant. For a much broader, slapstick comedy with Tony Curtis and Jack Lemon you should watch The Great Race (1965). I'm so glad you now have this film in your life. It is a film you will find yourself coming back to over and over. Carry On!
The Hotel del Coronado is in San Diego, not on Catalina Island. Check out the 1980 film The Stuntman with Peter Peter O'Toole and Steve Railsback for more usage of this hotel.
At first the costume department was making Josephine and Daphne look dowdy. The guys saw the nice clothes the women wore and insisted on their costumes looking as good as that. When they thought the makeup was working the guys tested it by going to the commissary in full drag. No one thought twice about these women. They they told makeup not to change a thing, it works.
I notice in the comments people mentioning Jean Harlow. You will adore Red Dust, starring Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, and Mary Astor(of Maltese Falcon fame). The movie was remade in the fifties as Mogambo starring Clark Gable, Ava Gardner in the Jean role and Grace Kelly in the Mary role. The original is the more steamier version because it was pre-code, and Clark Gable was 20 years younger
I'm fascinated how deeply you FEEL and UNDERSTAND all kind of movies! That takes a lot of life and cinematography experience to make such relevant and precise comments!
It wasn’t filmed in Florida but in San Diego, CA at the historic Hotel Del Coronado. I used to work there. There are historical tributes to this film all over the hotel.
Back then - in 1929 - the Mob owned Florida and there weren’t thousands of hotels. As you know by now it was shot in California. In an interview I watched, Tony Curtis thought the question about how it was to kiss Marilyn was so stupid, he joked and said it was like kissing hitler, but he was totally joking. It was heavenly!!!!!
Oh, I am not surprised at all. And yeah! I figured it out shortly after filming the video!! I heard Tony got a lot of flack for that comment, but based on his interview personality, it seemed like that was his kind of humor, the sarcastic type!!
You really did an excellent job with the commentary. I've seen this several times but a lot of the info you shared was new to me and you wove it seamlessly into the picture...
I love your channel, Mia. I LOVE it! Some of these Marilyn movies I haven't seen in so long, so I haven't watched those reactions yet, but just in general (and also specifically THIS video), I just love your channel, it's the only one like it! You did a great edit on this movie! I've seen this a million times, but not in a while, and I did not need a refresher while watching this video! I really like how you pepper these videos in with trivia. I'm really loving how you are talking about Marilyn's state during the filming of this.....it wasn't until I was watching THIS video that I could see visibly that she seems not in the best state of affairs. Next thing I know: YOU'RE discussing that very thing!!!! Anyways, I am so excited to delve into all of your other videos, you have so many good ones I want to hit. THANK YOU!!!! What a great tribute to Marilyn, by doing all these movies in a row. I actually am probably going to watch them all, with or without a refresher viewing! PS: I just realized: you did not do "The Asphalt Jungle"! Aha! So you have that to look forward to, maybe in a film noir month, or a John Huston retrospective! She's good in that one! Not a lead role, though! Thanks, Mia!! :D
Everything that Joe predicted came true by the way. "Suppose the Dodgers leave Brooklyn! Suppose lake Michigan overflows?" The best one I think was when he guessed, "They repealed prohibition?" And somehow he managed to make one "premonition" come true when Jerry/Daphne said, "He also has a bicycle!" and a few scenes later, "Well I'll be... he DOES have a bicycle," Jerry says as Joe rides past on said bicycle waving as he went. And the last bit of the movie when Jerry tries to come up with reasons to not get married, finally confessing, "I'm a man!" and Osgood saying the best line ever: "Well... nobody's perfect!" Great movie :)
So glad you enjoyed this! I was afraid maybe we were building it up so much that you’d be disappointed. I love this movie, and it’s in my top 5 favorite films of all time.
When you watch a great comedy film either by yourself or with a few people you lose the important component of audience participation. In no other film is that missing ingredient so important. I have had the privilege of watching this great film in a movie theater with an enthusiastic audience several times in my (long) life, and at each performance absolute pandemonium broke out in the theater during the upper berth sequence. The entire audience just taken over in helpless, raucous laughter, with all of us fighting to keep from falling out of our seats. The laughter was so prolonged that several minutes went by without our being able to hear even a word of dialogue.
Yes! Audience reaction is especially important in comedy and you have to plan for the laughter whether on stage or on film. I saw this when it came out in 1959 and the audience just roared with laughter. If you notice, besides the maracas scene, there are quite a few times where there are pauses in the dialogue (the chases, walking to the train etc.) so that the audience can respond. Also, the audience in 1959 was still quite familiar with Pat O'Brien, George Raft, and Joe E. Brown from their previous movie roles, so it was a treat seeing them again.
You really need to watch "The Shop Around The Corner" The precursor to the Tom Hanks - Meg Ryan romcom. The director and cast are (per IMDB) Director Ernst Lubitsch Stars Margaret Sullavan James Stewart Frank Morgan Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand each other, without realizing that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
I know it is not a film, but Tony Curtis and Roger Moore have a great chemistry between them in a TV series called "The Persuaders" (with great John Barry theme music)
I've never watched the original version, maybe I should give it a try. It's been said the original was rather dull, but the series became a great success in Germany due to the over the top dubbing. Especially Danny Wilde was full of puns and innuendos and some of them even made it into the daily life of German speakers permanently. Great fun to watch!
Mia, you should check out the 1955 dark comedy "Were No Angels" starring Humphrey Bogart, Peter Usinoff, and Aldo Ray, co-starring Basil Rathbone and Leo G. Carroll (Mr. Wavery from Man from Uncle). It's kind of a suttle Christmas movie with 3 convicts helping out a family. It's based on a French play and the dialogue is witty. Example: "What are you staring at?" Jules: I'm staring at you, I've never seen anyone quite like you," (Humphry Bogart walking by): "I have, but not at Christmas."
Misfits is a great film misunderstood by critics and most everyone at the time. It is a drama with some fun bits of humor. However the humor comes from life and not from scripted punch lines. Don't be fooled by the little bits of mild levity in a few of the opening scenes. Remember Arthur Miller wrote this for MM and it is VERY autobiographical. It is especially poignant when Eli shows her the house he is building. She sees his marriage picture and he explains his expectant wife died in complications of it. MM had very recently had a few miscarriages. To appreciate it, try to blank out from your mind all the previous performances of MM and Clark Gable before seeing it. Because their roles in Misfits are so different from what audiences were used to seeing them in is probably why they didn't GET Misfits. My goodness this film even has Estelle Winwood in a rather extended bit part.
I love this movie. Glad you mentioned the great dialog, it definitely has a rhythm and a snappiness to it. I wonder if Quentin Tarantino was influenced by the dialog in this movie. Another movie with memorable dialog is 'Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls', I would love to see you react to that movie.
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"Nobody's perfect"...best closing line EVER!!
The Danish title of this movie is: "Ingen er fuldkommen" - which actually translates to: "Nobody`s perfect" in english - thats how good this line is.
"Shut up and deal!" ain't bad, either.
There are several lines that are better. "Nobody's perfect," after all, is a familiar phrase. The best original lines are in Dinner at Eight, My Man Godfrey, and The Professionals. Another Wilder film Sunset Boulevard has a great closing line too.
It's so bizarre for a film being this old, for this day and age of mainstream conceptions of gender and orientation, that this film still holds up as well as it does. It's _astonishing_ how much it still works.
I truly believe this movie was also made in favour of the gay community.
The bit Lemon does with the maracas (he said years later) was the BEST piece of direction any director ever gave him. It broke up his lines and allowed the audience to laugh and pay close attention to his lines between the maracas sound. Great movie! I also really love Wilder's Love in the Afternoon (Audrey Hepburn)...
Part of the decision to shoot in Black & White was because it was more forgiving of Tony’s and Jack’s makeup. Like you said, the stars aligned. Perfect film.
They filmed this at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego. It was near Camp Pendleton, the Marine Corps Base. My Charlie, who fought in WWll, spent a lot of time there before he shipped out. Also Joe E Brown was the only entertainer he ever saw overseas. Joe’s son had been killed early on in the war, and he spent his own money to bring his shows to the front line troops. Charlie and the other guys were thrilled to get a show but when Brown came out on the stage and saw the roped off area for officers only, he refused to perform until they took it down. Charlie surged right up front and had his hands on the stage, he was so close. They all adored Joe E Brown.
Oh wow! How wonderful! Thank you so much for sharing 😊
I used to live in San Diego, my big brother was in the Navy out there. I always loved the visual of the ''Hotel Del''.
When they're on the beach, they even got some shots of Point Loma
For some reason I always thought it was on Santa catalina
Yes I agree and can attest that Marilyn looks absurdly good in this film. Like, not human. Perfect even
She looked pregnant in the beginning.
@@MsBackstager maybe that is what gave her that feminine glow
"Now you've done it. You broke one of my chests," is one of my favorite lines from any comedy.
Regarding people shining, there are just some women who have skin like that. The night I saw _Hairspray_ on Broadway Nicole Kidman was in the audience, about two rows away from me. She positively glowed, and that was just in the house lights, not stage lights. She was more beautiful in person than she appeared on film.
Joe E. Brown was a hugely popular comic actor in the 30s-40s. He was famous for his wide mouth, and a wide-mouthed yell became his signature. Aside from his comic timing still being impeccable, in '59 there'd also be a certain nostalgia value to casting him.
It can also be the make up. Certain foundations make your skin glow. I've had results like that with some.
When he was being pressured to replace MM Billy Wilder said, "You know, I've got an aunt who would show up on time, know her lines, not make any trouble. You know what else? Nobody would pay a dime to see my aunt to star in this picture "
I heard that comment differently...or separately, I should say. Wilder, if I recall correctly, told the producers that either Monroe had to be dismissed...or he would go. They told him to reconsider, for they weren't about to replace Monroe.
He wasn't happy with Monroe's behavior, but he knew that she had something which his aunt (did he call her "my Aunt Tillie"? I seem to think he did) didn't have, and never would have. He used a car image with her: Monroe was a Cadillac in playing a smart dumb blonde, and while it should have been easy to find someone with that knack, it wasn't: too many directors began shooting and found that their Cadillac was actually a Pontiac.
"With Mr. Swann, you forgive a lot, you know?" as chauffeur Alfie says in "My Favorite Year," and Wilder could have echoed him on Monroe...at least with this film
On the other hand, Wilder's next film, "The Apartment," takes some digs at Monroe.
@@charlessperling7031 I think my story is more succinct.
Tony Curtis pitched the idea of doing a Cary Grant impression to Billy Wilder. Billy had always wanted to work with Cary Grant and loved the idea. At some point Billy Wilder asked Cary Grant how he liked Tony Curtis doing an impression of him. Cary Grant got mad and said "I don't sound like that"!
But he did! Lol.
That's hilarious.
Two things I now want to know. One, if anyone ever told Cary Grant that that is what he sounded like (more or less). Two, what Cary Grant's natural English accent had been before he changed his name and got into the movies.
@@agenttheater5 I think he does his "real" accent in None But the Lonely Heart?
There’s a short TCM tribute to Cary Grant, done by Tony Curtis, who talks about worshipping Cary as a kid and wanting to be in movies and be just like him. Very touching. He finally got to work with Cary in Operation Petticoat, right before he did Some Like It Hot.
I was lucky to have Dinner with Tony Curtis,. He was much older and had white hair. We talked about "Some Like It Hot". While frustrated by Marilyn''s behavior he also felt sorry for her. He commented on what a wonderful Comedic Actress she was when things were running smoothly, The Voice Actor who helped Tony with his Feminine voice was Paul Frees. Frees was Boris Badanov in the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons and is the voice of the Ghost Host in Disney's Haunted Mansion. At this time he was in a Stage Version of Some Like It Hot playing the Joe E, Brown Character, Osgood Fielding III. A really nice, funny guy, No big ego just Bernie Swartz,
From the opening line to the hilarious closer, every word of dialogue seamlessly segues into the next with one hilarious double entendre after another. Heard or read, there isn't a single wasted word to be found anywhere in this script.
The beginning killing scene is based on the St. Valentines day massacre
She shines in color, in black n white, she could shine in plaid , infrared , whatever. She just shined all over
OMG! That makes sense!! And yes! She just shined in general!
Finally, Some Like It Hot is one of my favorite movies. Trivia - The Florida scenes are filmed at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego. I had a chance to visit. Very nice. Also, the hotel was where L. Frank Baum wrote a good portion of The Wizard of Oz.
It is SO cool, if you ever get to San Diego, GO!
Do they still have a channel with the movie running on a loop? I was there in 1995
Yep..my hometown of Coronado California was alot closer to Hollywood compared to Florida
Been there many times--a very beautiful old hotel!
46:14 Story going around that originally Osgood was going to say "I know" when Jerry said "I'm a man", but they felt it would make the audience uncomfortable (or something like that) so they changed it - frankly speaking, "Nobody's perfect" is a better line anyhow.
It has to be one of my very favorite last lines. Just a perfect scene.
At the very end of the movie, Osgood gives “Daphne” a smiling, knowing look. “Daphne” is back to being confused again. Classic!
I feel like the subtext of the scene definitely still is that he knew or suspected. 😊
@@QueenMegaera in the Broadway musical version, he flat-out admits at the end that he knows, and is just fine with it.
Zowie! Great review. Fun fact: Maracas were added to morning after scene where Daphnie announces his engagement because the test audience was laughing so hard at Jack's lines, no one heard Tony's.
Can't go wrong with this movie. Marilyn at her most gorgeous, Jack Lemmon in drag, Tony Curtis doing Cary Grant, and the legendary Joe E Brown. Plus a dose of Edward G Robinson.
George Raft, not Edward G Robinson
@@DesL488 Edward G. Robinson Jr.
George Raft portrayed Spats Colombo. Edward G. Robinson, Jr had a minor role as Johnny Paradise.
-I'm a man!
-Nobody's perfect.
Best final dialogue in a movie ever! lol
8:42 this but also heavy make up on Curtis and Lemmon's faces looked really funny and grotesque in color, that's the main reason why Wilder decided to film it in black and white
Now you understand why this is widely considered by film critics as the funniest movie of all time
I've always believed that Daphne and Oswin married as best they could, or became roommates, and raised jazz-loving hilarious children!
“Oh, I want mine to wear glasses” 😂, that’s what her husband *at the time* (Arthur Miller) wore.
I idolize Billy Wilder. Probably my favorite director all time. The Apartment is my fave movie and this is up there as well.
I feel that the closing lines of both of them are maybe my 2 favorite closing lines ever:
“Well, Nobody’s Perfect”
“Shut up and deal”
Wilder's autobiography is a good read.
Wilder is simply one of the best to ever do it, both as a director and as a writer. And English is not even his native tongue. He had as many classics that started with one letter of the alphabet as most directors do in a lifetime. Sabrina, Some Like It Hot, Stalag 17, and Sunset Boulevard. The letter 'S' was very good to him...and to us. Probably my favorite director as well.
Marilyn has very slight blond peach fuzz on her cheeks (they say it was because she used Vaseline on her face ( which doesn’t sound possible) Anyway her skin & peach fuzz helped her Glow 🌟
By the way, my Husband’s Great grandmother was an immigrant from Italy & had a job making movie costumes and she worked on the beading for the dress that Marilyn wore when she sang at the end of the movie. ✨🌟✨
i read it was a result of her taking estrogen pills
Fun fact, and also in Marilyn’s defense: For the beach scenes, Billy Wilder and his picture company Ashton Productions were resigned to taking at least three days shooting. But when everything was set to go, Marilyn got that entire sequence (beginning when Tony shows up as “Shell Oil, Jr.” to Marilyn and Jack running away to the hotel) … IN ONE TAKE.
Let me emphasize that again: IN. ONE. TAKE.
Billy Wilder was shocked into complete silence for a couple of seconds, then he yelled at the top of his lungs,
“PRINT!!!”
@@BonobanosI also think it’s because of her endometriosis.
I was lucky to watch this movie at the cinema for a Classics Festival, and it was amazing. I loved watching the crowd, mostly people in the late teen and early twenties just laughing non stop.
That movie's sense of humor is timeless.
21:29 All of a sudden one year I realised just how sorry I felt for Sugar in that scene - and in the scene when she mentioned the guy throwing coleslaw in her face because they were out of potato salad.
and I love how Joe remembers this. A huge sign that you're in love is when you remember little things that your love interest says in passing. At the end of the film, Joe recalls and mentions not only Sugar's experience with the coleslaw, but also the times that she has been abandoned by lovers in the past who left behind only their old socks and an empty toothpaste tube. Just the fact that he remembers all this, and knows how wrong all that stuff is and that she deserves better, shows us his relationship with her is gonna last.
Tony Curtis’ voice as Josephine was dubbed by Paul Frees, who was famous for voicing many of the Jay Ward cartoons (Rocky and Bullwinkle, etc.). He also provided the dubbed English voice of Toshiro Mifune in the films Midway and Grand Prix.
Didn’t know that! 😮
I knew it! For decades now I always thought Curtis was dubbed. It's rather obvious, really. It's great to finally get the actual confirmation.
Is that so? Wow, I didn't know that
If you do a gangster month, the best way to wrap it up is "White Heat" (1949). Tackled the genre almost a decade after it fell out of fashion, but it hit the beats and tropes at a much better quality, and Jimmy Cagney's performance is (to put it mildly) dynamite.
Cagney at his absolute best!
@@mikem6425' All Cagney Breaks Loose!'
let's see, you got "the public enemy," "scarface," "the petrified forrest," "dead end," "angels with dirty faces" and "the roaring twenties" are ALSO all great gangster films from the 30s. i got all them as well as "white heat" in my dvd collection.
i just saw where she watched "bringing up baby!" excellent! someone's finally watching some great PAST, NOT OLD, but GREAT past movies. good for her. good job. i could turn her on to MANY great movies from 1896 on! the 20th century is FULL of remarkable films that are, sadly, ignored today. bogart, cagney, grant, katherine hepburn, jimmy stewart all made some REALLY GREAT films in their long and productive acting careers.
might i suggest 1948's "the snake pit" starring Olivia de Havilland?
@@cjmacq-vg8um You forgot “Little Caesar” with the great Eddy G!
Tony Curtis said he worked with drag queen friends on Josephine. I think it shows, like he's channeling Clara Bow!
Wilder was one of those people who said, in the final edit, Marilyn always looked and sounded great, no matter the background issues. That's movie magic!
Yes! I was waiting for this. It gets better everytime i watch it. I love your inputs during the reaction. You have become my favorite channel. Thank you for the time you take to make these videos.
Aww! Thank you so much! I am glad you like the videos!
It really does, you miss half of the jokes the first time!
i just saw where she watched "bringing up baby!" excellent! someone's finally watching some great PAST, NOT OLD, but GREAT past movies. good for her. good job. i could turn her on to MANY great movies from 1896 on! the 20th century is FULL of remarkable films that are, sadly, ignored today. bogart, cagney, grant, katherine hepburn, jimmy stewart all made some REALLY GREAT films in their long and productive acting careers.
might i suggest 1948's "the snake pit" starring Olivia de Havilland?
IM so glad I found this channel , Ive been trying to get a few others to do these classic films, THAT scene with JACK and M Monroe is one of the funniest ever with "DAphne" trying to stay in control- " IM a Girl" and M Monroe was I believe startin to show her pregnancy and thats why she was in dark outfits
They shot it in black and white because in screen tests Jack Lemmon's and Tony Curtis's makeup made them look green. No joke.
Believe it or not, the father of the founder of Shell Oil made a living selling sea shells. Marcus Samuel, Jr. named the company in honor of his father's business. The bit on the beach where Shell Oil Junior holds up the seashell is based on reality. No, I am not making this up.
Tony Curtis got so frustrated working with Marilyn that he said kissing her was like kissing Hitler. He regretted it, and distanced himself from what he had said, although I don't think he ever apologized for it.
Just for fun, here's a 1922 recording of Miss Patricola singing Runnin' Wild:
ruclips.net/video/OxohAsH1Yaw/видео.html
And from 1928, here's Helen Kane singing I Wanna Be Loved by You:
ruclips.net/video/hclK-UKJNgk/видео.html
Thanks for another fun reaction!
He said in an interview (dick cavatt?) that he was totally joking and it was taken the wrong way. As if any man could make out with Marilyn and not be in heaven!!! I believe him because the question is too ridiculous.
I went to the opening of an art exhibit of paintings by Tony Curtis (I got to meet him and Jamie Lee and Christopher Guest, among others). The exhibit included a painting of Marilyn - it was clear he really loved her!
This was filmed at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego. It's still there and open, a beautiful hotel.
The scene between Sugar and Joe actually has some reality in it. Cary Grant for years lived with fellow actor Randolph Scott. Although both of them married women, there were rumors that the two men were a couple. Grant at one point replied that if a woman thought he was gay, she would be only too willing to help "cure" him.
If you love jack Lemmon you’ll love the odd couple
So Mia, now that you are familiar with Jack Lemmon and William Powell, is it time to watch Mister Roberts and get better acquainted with Henry Fonda and James Cagney?
Possibly… Mister Roberts is definitely on the list!!
My Dad was stationed on the same ship that Mr Roberts was set on when he was in the Navy. That's all I know about the movie, lol.
Also his films with Walter Matthau, The Odd Couple, The Fortune Cookie and The Front Page are very much worth watching
@@MoviesWithMia That’s a great and touching comedy/drama. You really should check it out.
No one is reacting to James Cagney. Perhaps a top 3 male actor of the 20th century. "The Roaring 20's" might be my fav. Captures the prohibition era, music, and a touching love story to boot.
14:30 good eye!! I also believe it's connected to "Seven Year Itch"
Another great comedy with a young Jack Lemmon (and Shirley MacLaine) is "Irma La Douce". Please have it in sight for a great movie experience
Oh definitely on the list!
@@MoviesWithMia the yellow rolls Royce Shirley MacLaine plays a gun moll.
I never put it together before now. Marilyn especially losing it at the bourbon line. Of course. In the scene, her character has just been informed she's been rejected by another man she hoped for. If she was doing method acting, she'd have to get in touch with all her feelings of rejection. Yipes. (Also recommend Billy Wilder's "Sunset Boulevard")
About how Tony Curtis talks when he plays the millionaire: He's doing an impression of Cary Grant (perhaps a little exaggerated...)
My grandfather was the actor who helped with Tony Curtis’s voice. Uncredited, but definitely really cool.
I would say, 2 horses drown under me! Hilarious line that gives away that he’s not really in his element.
Good to see you’ve enjoyed The Apartment and Some Like It Hot, two of Billy Wilder’s most standout flicks. Now, there’s Sabrina (if you haven’t already seen it) and arguably his two best movies, Sunset Boulevard and Double Indemnity.
Oh, Sabrina! *sigh* Love that movie so much!
I seem to recall Mia saying that "Sabrina" was among the first "classic Hollywood" movies she ever saw. Don't know if she's seen "Roman Holiday" yet.
Sunset Boulevard is so fantastic and iconic. It’s an absolute Must-See.
@@etherealtb6021 That was a horrible movie and terribly miscast with old Bogart...you wouldn't choose him over William Holden. They were supposed to cast Cary Grant in Bogarts role.
@@kelseyk530 I've known that for decades. Wilder made it work with the cast he had, IMHO.
Thank you Mia!!!!! So glad that we finally arrived here! Keep up the great reviews of these classic films.
Paul Frees, the legendary voice actor who provided the falsetto voice for Tony Curtis is also heard, briefly, overdubbing the dialog of the "undertaker" at the entrance of the speakeasy.
Mob and gangster movies would be great. Don’t miss Key Largo, and really anything with Edward G Robinson
I will definitely keep that in mind!! Thank you for recommending 😊
@@MoviesWithMia "Key Largo" is so great: Robinson, but also Bogart and Bacall. You could do a whole month of just Bogart and Bacall. But Edward G. Robinson is so underrated -- one of the most consistently effective actors in Hollywood. When he plays a villain (as in "Key Largo") he's chilling. When he plays a nice guy, he's among the most sympathetic.
For Pat O'Brien+Cagney watch 'Angels with Dirty Faces', 'The Roaring 20's' has Cagney v/s Bogart. The Latter is good in 'The Big Shot'. Curtis and Lemon later did 'The Great Race'- a bit long but has funny moments+Natalie Wood. For recent Black and White watch 'The Artist'.
@@MoviesWithMia do Public Enemy too
Robinson was one of the great old screen stars. Never bad not one damn time.
I do envy you the sheer joy of watching films such as this comic masterpiece for the first time!
‘Florida’ was really filmed at the Hotel Corona Del Mar in San Diego. The hotel is still there.
Jane Russell Films from 1949 to 1955 are Fantastic to.
Pat O'Brien, who plays the cop in the speakeasy often played a cop or a priest in the 30s, and, in at least one movie, "Angels with Dirty Faces", was a wonderfully straight character opposite James Cagney.
Spats is George Raft, who was famous for tossing and catching a coin, and for turning down roles that Humphrey Bogart picked up. He was a very decent actor, with a wild private life. He and Bogart did act together once in a movie I like a lot, about truckers and the corruption in the business, "They Drive By Night".
Apparently Marilyn was very concerned about not being photographed in color; she felt it was important. Wilder promised her that she would be as magnificent in black and white as she was in color, and of course, he managed to do it! One of the reasons he wanted it in black and white was his own concern that color might make Lemmon's and Curtis' female make-up too exaggerated for the audience.
Joe E. Brown as Osgood, famous for that wide, wide mouth and smile. I first saw him in the 1930s version of "Midsummer Night's Dream", where, ironically, his character dresses in drag for the play within the play at the end. He made child-me roll on the floor and I have loved him ever since.
Here's a fun TCM short with Tony Curtis praising Cary Grant, and giving his reasons for doing Grant for this movie: ruclips.net/video/lS33i-ju1yU/видео.html.
"I Wanna Be Loved By You" was written by the team of Kalmer and Ruby, who wrote songs for the Marx Brothers. A highly fictionalized movie of their lives, "Three Little Words" was made, starring Fred Astaire and Red Skelton (I love it though it really isn't very good). In one scene they "show" how the song was composed. A young Debbie Reynolds plays Helen Kane, who originally sang the song (and was the voice of Olive Oyl of Popeye fame). Here's the clip of Debbie Reynolds dubbed by Helen Kane herself, singing the song in what I think was its original setting: ruclips.net/video/ayMDaVZ1fhk/видео.html
My intro to Tony Curtis was in a movie about Harry Houdini, which also starred his wife, Janet Leigh, the mother of his daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis. Janet Leigh is also Marion from "Psycho". He is handsome, and also very funny, and also very good at drama. I also like him in a movie in which he supports Gregory Peck, "Captain Newman, MD". It's a war movie that moves a little uneasily in tone, but he is unfailingly charming as a scrounge of infinite resources. I found the whole movie on RUclips here: ruclips.net/video/tNsgsso8nYg/видео.html. The scene I'm thinking of starts at about 1hour and 30 minutes in. You don't need to know the story to relish the moment. Tony Curtis, incidentally, was a nice Jewish boy from the Bronx, so seeing him at this moment is a lot like the fun of watching Irish James Cagney converse in Yiddish, which he does in a couple of movies.
Nice touch that in their last dress up as Josephine and Daphne, they aren't wearing make-up, because there was no time.
Lemmon and Curtis act together again in a very long, very, very, very funny slapstick movie, "The Great Race", another movie our family can quote at painful length. It also features Natalie Wood in a wonderful role, and Peter Falk managing to steal scenes without effort. Keenan Wynn, one of those great supporting actors who turn up unexpectedly and are wonderful to see, also has a role here.
Joe E. Brown also appeared in drag in the wonderful comedy western "Shut My Big Mouth". In one scene he danced with Victor Jory! (If you ever see that film you may find yourself wondering, as I have, just how the last shot made it by the censors.)
I think "Houdini" was also the first time I ever saw Tony Curtis in anything. Pretty decent biopic as those things go. I've heard of "Captain Newman, MD" but don't think I've ever seen it. Have to give it a watch, thanks for the link.
Yes, a big "in joke" in 1959 modern audiences might miss, is the previous careers of the older leads in the film. But what's great about this film is their parts work whether you know their history or not!
What is amazing is they only had 60 pages of the movie written when they first started filming. Most of the movie was written the day before the next
days shoot.
I love this movie and, everyone is brilliant in it. I’ve seen all of Monroe’s work and, can’t help always feeling sad for her. I think she deserved more of a chance and, I think because she really didn’t most of the time is why there were issues. Just my thoughts.
"OH MY GOD IT'S SPATZ COLUMBO!!!" I'm fucking dying 🤣🤣🤣
I read somewhere that Joe Brown's original line, when Jack Lemon said "I'm a man", was "I know". It was then changed to "nobody's perfect" to make it more acceptable to the studio / audience of the time. I'm not sure which I prefer.
Tony Curtis and Jack Lemon did another movie together. I think you would like it. It's called The Great Race. It's a long one, 2 hours and 40 minutes. Jack Lemon actually plays 2 characters. It also stars Natalie Wood and Peter Falk. It's an action/adventure movie but is loaded with comedy. It was done in 1965 and was directed by Blake Edwards.
Such an underrated and lesser known classic. We had it taped on VHS and quoted it a lot as kids.
If you like Lemmon, watch The Odd Couple. Jack is Felix and Walter Matthau is Oscar.
They are also together in The Fortune Cookie. Don't miss it.
Tony Curtis was worried 😟 that Carry Grant wouldn't like his impression 😳. However he loved it 😀 😉.
Curtis acted like Cary Grant on purpose. Grant was his favorite actor and the reason why himself wanted to be an actor.
My very old father was acquainted with Tony Curtis (back when he was Bernie Schwartz) from the Boys Club, Bronx, NY.
Those hotel scenes were filmed in San diego..the Hotel del Coronado. I've stayed there many times. Very elegant, very stately, very old...for CA. Right on a beautiful SC beach, as seen.
The fact that this 130 year old historical lamdmark is in my hometown is awesome. I especially love the early photos of it when it was first built, the haunted aspect, etc. The Sunday brunch they have there is a nice bonus! ;)
OMG amazing film a true masterpiece very classic Some Like It Hot produced and directed by Billy Wilder starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, Joe E. Brown, Pat O'Brien and music score by Adolph Deutsch. This film was nominated for 6 Oscars and won 1 for best costume design and was nominated for 3 Golden Globe awards and won 3 including best actor by Jack Lemmon, best actress by Marilyn Monroe and best picture. The famous line in this film is "Well, nobody's perfect". Thank you Mia Tiffany great reaction very awesome😊😊😊😊
The movie I first learned about: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, machine guns, dressing in drag, spats, federal cases and prohibition.
Yay!!!! I can't wait to see your reaction tot his - it's a Classic. One reason this was filmed in B&W was that it made the make-up for Jack & Tony much easier and less expensive. George Raft was an excellent ballroom dancer and spent time on set teaching Joe E. and Jack how to dance. Flipping a coin was his "trademark" in his early career playing gangsters. The St. Valentine's Day Massacre was a real event in Chicago between 2 rival gangs. The Shell Oil Company did start out importing shells from China in the 1800's. Tony Curtis said that he did model his voice after Cary Grant.
For a much broader, slapstick comedy with Tony Curtis and Jack Lemon you should watch The Great Race (1965).
I'm so glad you now have this film in your life. It is a film you will find yourself coming back to over and over.
Carry On!
Odd seeing the color photography, so glad they filmed in black and white. They filmed at the Hotel Coronado on Catalina Island, California.
The Hotel del Coronado is in San Diego, not on Catalina Island. Check out the 1980 film The Stuntman with Peter Peter O'Toole and Steve Railsback for more usage of this hotel.
Watch Operation Petticoat. Tony Curtis finally got to work with Cary Grant and doing a submarine movie. Two things he'd always wanted to do.
At first the costume department was making Josephine and Daphne look dowdy. The guys saw the nice clothes the women wore and insisted on their costumes looking as good as that. When they thought the makeup was working the guys tested it by going to the commissary in full drag. No one thought twice about these women. They they told makeup not to change a thing, it works.
I notice in the comments people mentioning Jean Harlow. You will adore Red Dust, starring Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, and Mary Astor(of Maltese Falcon fame). The movie was remade in the fifties as Mogambo starring Clark Gable, Ava Gardner in the Jean role and Grace Kelly in the Mary role. The original is the more steamier version because it was pre-code, and Clark Gable was 20 years younger
I love Red Dust! Jean Harlow is SO beautiful, funny and heartbreaking in this movie!
The last line of the film was used as Billy Wilder's epitaph.
I'm fascinated how deeply you FEEL and UNDERSTAND all kind of movies! That takes a lot of life and cinematography experience to make such relevant and precise comments!
Tony Curtis and Jack Lemon....THE GREAT RACE. You will never forget it!!!
you left out the part where Tony says to Daffney "I knew a girl from Brimmore who was found strangled with her own brassier"
Yes, Tony Curtis decided he wanted his voice to mimic Cary Grant.
It wasn’t filmed in Florida but in San Diego, CA at the historic Hotel Del Coronado. I used to work there. There are historical tributes to this film all over the hotel.
This is my favorite movie of all time and I think it has the best last line of any movie ever!
Back then - in 1929 - the Mob owned Florida and there weren’t thousands of hotels.
As you know by now it was shot in California.
In an interview I watched, Tony Curtis thought the question about how it was to kiss Marilyn was so stupid, he joked and said it was like kissing hitler, but he was totally joking. It was heavenly!!!!!
Oh, I am not surprised at all. And yeah! I figured it out shortly after filming the video!! I heard Tony got a lot of flack for that comment, but based on his interview personality, it seemed like that was his kind of humor, the sarcastic type!!
You really did an excellent job with the commentary. I've seen this several times but a lot of the info you shared was new to me and you wove it seamlessly into the picture...
I completely agree. This was great!
"Florida" was Hotel Del Coronado on Coronado Island in California. Though it has since been expanded, it's still there, and it's beautiful.
BTW, like 7 Brides for 7 Brothers, this was later made into a stage musical called
"Sugar".
It was our spring musical one year, back in school.
Operation Petticoat (1959) Cary Grant & Tony Curtis in a WW2 comedy set on a submarine. Not great perhaps, but definitely fun and polished.
Paper Moon needs to be on your list of must sees
You’re so smart- the steam scene is directly inspired by the Seven Year Itch.
One reason it was shot in black and white is that the makeup for Lemmon and Curtis was more realistic than in color.
Best ending line ever. lol
I love your channel, Mia. I LOVE it! Some of these Marilyn movies I haven't seen in so long, so I haven't watched those reactions yet, but just in general (and also specifically THIS video), I just love your channel, it's the only one like it! You did a great edit on this movie! I've seen this a million times, but not in a while, and I did not need a refresher while watching this video! I really like how you pepper these videos in with trivia. I'm really loving how you are talking about Marilyn's state during the filming of this.....it wasn't until I was watching THIS video that I could see visibly that she seems not in the best state of affairs. Next thing I know: YOU'RE discussing that very thing!!!! Anyways, I am so excited to delve into all of your other videos, you have so many good ones I want to hit. THANK YOU!!!! What a great tribute to Marilyn, by doing all these movies in a row. I actually am probably going to watch them all, with or without a refresher viewing! PS: I just realized: you did not do "The Asphalt Jungle"! Aha! So you have that to look forward to, maybe in a film noir month, or a John Huston retrospective! She's good in that one! Not a lead role, though!
Thanks, Mia!! :D
If you liked Osgood's line "Well, nobody is perfect", then you would love his famous line in the musical Show Boat from 1951.
I would love a month dedicated to gangster films! My personal favorite is White Heat starring James Cagney.
It still amazes me that Jamie-Lee Curtis’ father is Tony Curtis
This is considered one of her best roles.
Everything that Joe predicted came true by the way. "Suppose the Dodgers leave Brooklyn! Suppose lake Michigan overflows?" The best one I think was when he guessed, "They repealed prohibition?" And somehow he managed to make one "premonition" come true when Jerry/Daphne said, "He also has a bicycle!" and a few scenes later, "Well I'll be... he DOES have a bicycle," Jerry says as Joe rides past on said bicycle waving as he went.
And the last bit of the movie when Jerry tries to come up with reasons to not get married, finally confessing, "I'm a man!" and Osgood saying the best line ever: "Well... nobody's perfect!"
Great movie :)
So glad you enjoyed this! I was afraid maybe we were building it up so much that you’d be disappointed. I love this movie, and it’s in my top 5 favorite films of all time.
When you watch a great comedy film either by yourself or with a few people you lose the important component of audience participation. In no other film is that missing ingredient so important. I have had the privilege of watching this great film in a movie theater with an enthusiastic audience several times in my (long) life, and at each performance absolute pandemonium broke out in the theater during the upper berth sequence. The entire audience just taken over in helpless, raucous laughter, with all of us fighting to keep from falling out of our seats. The laughter was so prolonged that several minutes went by without our being able to hear even a word of dialogue.
Yes! Audience reaction is especially important in comedy and you have to plan for the laughter whether on stage or on film. I saw this when it came out in 1959 and the audience just roared with laughter. If you notice, besides the maracas scene, there are quite a few times where there are pauses in the dialogue (the chases, walking to the train etc.) so that the audience can respond. Also, the audience in 1959 was still quite familiar with Pat O'Brien, George Raft, and Joe E. Brown from their previous movie roles, so it was a treat seeing them again.
You really need to watch "The Shop Around The Corner" The precursor to the Tom Hanks - Meg Ryan romcom. The director and cast are (per IMDB)
Director
Ernst Lubitsch
Stars
Margaret Sullavan James Stewart Frank Morgan
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand each other, without realizing that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
I know it is not a film, but Tony Curtis and Roger Moore have a great chemistry between them in a TV series called "The Persuaders" (with great John Barry theme music)
I've never watched the original version, maybe I should give it a try. It's been said the original was rather dull, but the series became a great success in Germany due to the over the top dubbing. Especially Danny Wilde was full of puns and innuendos and some of them even made it into the daily life of German speakers permanently. Great fun to watch!
Mia, you should check out the 1955 dark comedy "Were No Angels" starring Humphrey Bogart, Peter Usinoff, and Aldo Ray, co-starring Basil Rathbone and Leo G. Carroll (Mr. Wavery from Man from Uncle). It's kind of a suttle Christmas movie with 3 convicts helping out a family. It's based on a French play and the dialogue is witty. Example: "What are you staring at?" Jules: I'm staring at you, I've never seen anyone quite like you," (Humphry Bogart walking by): "I have, but not at Christmas."
Notice that Grace Lee Whitney (later to be the Yeoman on TV's original STAR TREK) was one of the bands girls!
Misfits is a great film misunderstood by critics and most everyone at the time. It is a drama with some fun bits of humor. However the humor comes from life and not from scripted punch lines. Don't be fooled by the little bits of mild levity in a few of the opening scenes.
Remember Arthur Miller wrote this for MM and it is VERY autobiographical. It is especially poignant when Eli shows her the house he is building. She sees his marriage picture and he explains his expectant wife died in complications of it. MM had very recently had a few miscarriages.
To appreciate it, try to blank out from your mind all the previous performances of MM and Clark Gable before seeing it.
Because their roles in Misfits are so different from what audiences were used to seeing them in is probably why they didn't GET Misfits.
My goodness this film even has Estelle Winwood in a rather extended bit part.
The Misfits--one of the most underrated films ever.
Please watch Operation Petticoat. Cary Grant and Tony Curtis in a wonderful comedy.
Best last line in a movie?
You need to see “The Roaring Twenties.” James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart: it doesn’t get any better!
I love this movie. Glad you mentioned the great dialog, it definitely has a rhythm and a snappiness to it. I wonder if Quentin Tarantino was influenced by the dialog in this movie. Another movie with memorable dialog is 'Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls', I would love to see you react to that movie.
i love thi movie, i had watched it over and over dozen times, I also love the black and white movies so much
My favorite Tony Curtis film is Houdini (1953) with Janet Leigh (parents of Jamie Lee Curtis).