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2021 Vintage Movie Posters Calendar Sneak Peek: “Some Like it Hot”
SOME LIKE IT HOT; 1959; Studio: United Artists; Director: Billy Wilder; Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft
This hit romantic comedy, adapted from the 1935 French film, Fanfare of Love, follows two musicians (Curtis and Lemmon) that witness a mob hit and hide out as women. Things get complicated when one of them is attracted to a girl named Sugar (Monroe), and invents another identity as a millionaire (Curtis doing his best Cary Grant impersonation) to woo her.
The two stars tested their female personas on the studio lot to see if they could pass as women, and when no one questioned their identities, they knew the film would work. Monroe sang four songs on the soundtrack, but proved to be very difficult to work with, often flubbing or forgetting her lines – one three-word line took forty-seven takes to get right. Nevertheless, the film garnered six Oscar nominations and remains one of the great comedy classics of all time. “I’m a man!” “Well, nobody’s perfect.”
Appreciation for the expert commentary on “Some Like it Hot” and all of the posters featured in our 2020 & 2021 Vintage Movie Posters Calendars (2020 below) goes to Dr. Arnold Blumberg. THANKS DOC!! Doc is an educator, publisher, author, comic and pop culture historian, and former museum curator. He was the editor of The Overstreet Comic Book Price guide and teaches courses in everything from comics to zombies to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Find him on Twitter @DoctoroftheDead. The movie poster image for “Samson and Delilah” can be found in our 2020 Vintage Movie Posters Calendar – a fantastic NEW addition to our growing list of Pop Culture titles.
