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My Memories Of Marilyn Monroe And The Classic American Movie
Wiley
October 2009
On Sale: September 28, 2009
240 pages
ISBN: 0470537213
EAN: 9780470537213
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction Memoir
When Hollywood legend Tony Curtis meets his fans, they
always ask about his 1959 comedy Some Like It Hot. Luckily
for them—and for us—Tony has stories to share. In his new
book, The Making of Some Like It Hot, he shares all of them. 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 Here, too, are Tony's previously unpublished recollections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.
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