Marilyn Fan » some like it hot http://marilynfan.org Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:29:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 New book about Some Like It Hot http://marilynfan.org/612 http://marilynfan.org/612#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:01:51 +0000 Marloes http://marilynfan.org/?p=612 Recently, a new book is released about the movie Some Like It Hot. I own the big Taschen book about this movie and I think this book is a nice addition for the people who are fan of the movie. I haven’t bought it myself yet, but I’ve heard good reviews about it in the forum.
It’s a fairly big book with 192 pages.

If you’re interested in ordering this book, click the ‘Read more’ link below! You will find a link to the Amazon website.

Title: Some Like It Hot: The Official 50th Anniversary Companion
Author: Laurence Maslon
Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Collins Design (September 22, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061761230
ISBN-13: 978-0061761232
Product Dimensions: 12.1 x 9.5 x 1 inches


This is what Amazon writes about it:

Selected as America’s Funniest Movie by the American Film Institute, Some Like it Hot remains an undisputed classic fifty years after its release, as it continues to capture three of American culture’s great preoccupations-jazz, gangsters, and Marilyn Monroe. The Official 50th Anniversary Companion details the history of this side-splitting farce from its roots as an obscure 1951 German film to its Hollywood conception, where Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond transposed the material to the Roaring Twenties and director Wilder cast the brilliant Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon in the starring roles.

As well as previously unpublished images, posters, and documents from the MGM archives, this book includes selections from the screenplay, casting notes, on-set production anecdotes, and location shots from the fabled Del Coronado in San Diego (doubling for Florida). In addition, songs and music used in the film’s jazz era setting, background information on Chicago during Prohibition, the story of the Broadway and West End musical versions (one of which starred Tony Curtis), the previously undiscovered television pilot based on the movie, and the ongoing legacy of the most famous drag comedy in film history.
Featuring cameo appearances by Arthur Miller, Edward G. Robinson, Al Capone, Tommy Steele, Robert Morse, Tina Louise, and Tom Hanks, The Official 50th Anniversary Companion is the first book to tell the full story of Some Like it Hot from start to finish, from wig to high heels.

]]> http://marilynfan.org/612/feed 0 Footage of Marilyn at the Some Like It Hot set http://marilynfan.org/footage-of-marilyn-at-the-some-like-it-hot-set http://marilynfan.org/footage-of-marilyn-at-the-some-like-it-hot-set#comments Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:44:09 +0000 Marloes http://marilynfan.org/?p=21 If you want to see a little bit of the footage that was sold earlier this week for $17,500, click on the play button below.


]]> http://marilynfan.org/footage-of-marilyn-at-the-some-like-it-hot-set/feed 1 $17,500 for Marilyn footage at set Some Like It Hot http://marilynfan.org/14624-for-footage-of-marilyn-at-some-like-it-hot-set http://marilynfan.org/14624-for-footage-of-marilyn-at-some-like-it-hot-set#comments Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:39:15 +0000 Marloes http://marilynfan.org/?p=20 Rare behind-the-scenes footage of actress and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe on the set of 1959′s Some Like It Hot has sold for $17,500 at an auction in Melbourne.
The two-and-a-half-minute amateur film, featuring Monroe with co-stars Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, was taken by a US naval officer invited onto the set after Monroe visited his base in San Diego.

Still in its original box, the eight-millimetre film was found among the sailor’s possessions after he died and brought to Australia by his daughter when she moved here.
The footage, which was bought by an unnamed private collector from Sydney, had been expected to fetch between $20,000 and $30,000.

“We’re surprised there weren’t more bidders, but we are happy that it sold,” said Charles Leski of Leski Auctions. “Marilyn Monroe memorabilia is always in demand, but rarely do we get one-off material like this. It is also extremely rare for such important archival footage to be auctioned outside of the US before its domestic release and for that we are extremely proud,” he added.

The footage shows Monroe surrounded by sailors on a visit to the naval base and later features moments of Monroe acting “playfully” on the set with Lemmon and Curtis.

“It’s a couple of minutes of colour footage of Marilyn Monroe and her co-stars from Some Like It Hot. The film was made in black and white, released in black and white, and to the best of my knowledge – except for a few studio photographs – nothing survives in colour,” Mr Leski said.

A 47-minute amateur film of Monroe and Clarke Gable on the set of her last completed movie, The Misfits, sold in the US recently for $US60,000.

“Considering what Misfits reached in the US, we are happy, as this means we got $7,000 per minute,” Mr Leski said.

Monroe died aged 36 in August 1962 after an overdose of pills that was ruled a suicid
Curtis is the only surviving key member of the cast of Some Like It Hot, a cross-dressing comedy directed by Billy Wilder.

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