The Making of Some Like It Hot: My Memories of Marilyn Monroe and the Classic American Movie. Hardcover - 2009 - 1st Edition
by Tony Curtis
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
With scores of unseen black-and-white photos throughout, and an eight-page color insert that shows what the movie would have looked like in Technicolor, "The Making of Some Like It Hot" is the definitive book on a beloved classic.
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- Title The Making of Some Like It Hot: My Memories of Marilyn Monroe and the Classic American Movie.
- Author Tony Curtis
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 248
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley,, New York
- Date 2009.
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 52501
- ISBN 9780470537213 / 0470537213
- Weight 1.04 lbs (0.47 kg)
- Dimensions 9.34 x 6.32 x 0.89 in (23.72 x 16.05 x 2.26 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Monroe, Marilyn
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009028772
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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From the publisher
From the jacket flap
"Some Like It Hot" is a beloved part of our culture, voted the "Funniest Film of All Time" by the American Film Institute, but Tony is the first to tell the complete, uncensored story of its making, a behind-the-scenes saga of intrigue, humor, and romance. A noted artist and raconteur, Tony paints word portraits of the geniuses who made the film: director Billy Wilder and his cowriter I. A. L. Diamond; actor Jack Lemmon; and sex icon Marilyn Monroe. In his engaging style, Tony tells of Wilder and Diamond's unique writing routine; Wilder's surprising first choice for Tony's costar; and Wilder's daring decision to add violence to farce.
Tony describes the challenges he faced as the "best-looking kid in Hollywood" suddenly forced to dress as a woman: meeting the limitations of a constricting costume; learning the "moves" from a female impersonator; adapting his walk and the pitch of his voice; facing people's reactions (or worse, the lack of them); working in tandem with the hilarious Lemmon; and following Wilder's precise but often impersonal direction.
Here, too, are Tony's previously unpublished recollections of his bittersweet relationship with Marilyn. He tells in vivid, compelling detail how America's most celebrated sex symbol came to work on this unlikely project; how he had met the young unknown years earlier on a studio street; about their puppy love, her meteoric rise to fame, and the resentment he saw in her colleagues; how her perfectionism nearly drove him crazy; and how her strange behavior nearly shut down the film. Disclosed for the first time are details of the affair that took place during the filming at the Hotel del Coronado and the effect it had on Tony, on the production, and on Marilyn's husband, the playwright Arthur Miller. In 1958, America read about a fistfight on the set. Now, for the first time, Tony tells what caused it--and what followed it.
Packed with scores of rarely seen black-and-white photos and eight pages of color photos that reveal how the movie would have looked in Technicolor, The Making of Some Like It Hot is the ideal way to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of this landmark film.
