Some like it Hot
I just finished watching "Some like it hot". Excellent movie! The beginning is kind of slow, but it gets awesome. I loved it. Jack Lemmon was hilarious in his whole little cheap tart facade. Tony Curtis was hot. Marilyn Monroe was beautiful, although I couldn't help but notice that Marilyn Monroe was pretty thick. She was on the cusp of fat. If she were a woman today she'd be considered fat. I love that back in her day women could ...you know... eat. I heard she was a size 12.
It's amazing how much the world's standards for beauty and physical perfection have changed throughout the years. To me it seems like a long time ago, but that's probably because I'm so young. So many people can remember those times.
Its a shame though that in so many interviews Marilyn Monroe is said to have been impossible to work with. I think the woman might've been off her nut. I don't know exactly what her deal was, but I read about her in an interview given by Donald O' Connor. He had worked with her on a movie and had talked about how she was a diva, tempermental....impossible. He also mentioned something about her being afraid of the cameras- not in a creepy way, but just afraid of being on film. It's hard to believe that she had stage fright when she was this huge movie star, but I have only ever read that one interview about her.
In the behind the scenes for "Some like it Hot" Tony Curtis and some other cast members danced around the topic. No one outright said "Marilyn was a major bitch". People seemed to want to put it as delicately as possible. They mentioned that she would be extremely late to the set all the time, or that she wouldn't show up at all sometimes. They also mentioned that on one occasion she came into work but she wouldn't leave her dressing room. Billy finally got her out by pretending to give her solo out to one of the other girls. Supposedly Marilyn heard the other girl singing it and finally came out of her dressing room and took the scene back. They put it nicely, but none-the-less.... she seemed like a petulant child and a pain in the ass. I would have told her so myself had I worked with her. I don't know why people put up with her shit and then sugar coated it in the interviews.
It's amazing how much the world's standards for beauty and physical perfection have changed throughout the years. To me it seems like a long time ago, but that's probably because I'm so young. So many people can remember those times.
Its a shame though that in so many interviews Marilyn Monroe is said to have been impossible to work with. I think the woman might've been off her nut. I don't know exactly what her deal was, but I read about her in an interview given by Donald O' Connor. He had worked with her on a movie and had talked about how she was a diva, tempermental....impossible. He also mentioned something about her being afraid of the cameras- not in a creepy way, but just afraid of being on film. It's hard to believe that she had stage fright when she was this huge movie star, but I have only ever read that one interview about her.
In the behind the scenes for "Some like it Hot" Tony Curtis and some other cast members danced around the topic. No one outright said "Marilyn was a major bitch". People seemed to want to put it as delicately as possible. They mentioned that she would be extremely late to the set all the time, or that she wouldn't show up at all sometimes. They also mentioned that on one occasion she came into work but she wouldn't leave her dressing room. Billy finally got her out by pretending to give her solo out to one of the other girls. Supposedly Marilyn heard the other girl singing it and finally came out of her dressing room and took the scene back. They put it nicely, but none-the-less.... she seemed like a petulant child and a pain in the ass. I would have told her so myself had I worked with her. I don't know why people put up with her shit and then sugar coated it in the interviews.