08 Wednesday Mar 2023
Posted in Film, Marilyn Monroe
≈ Comments Off on Walter Mirisch: ‘Some Like It Hot’ Producer Dies at 101
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Arthur Miller, Billy Wilder, Dick Patterson, Elmore Leonard, Fanfare der Liebe, Harold Mirisch, Herb Baker, Jack Lemmon, Joe Hyams, John Huston, Marilyn Monroe, Marvin Mirisch, NBC, Paula Strasberg, Sidney Poitier, Some Like It Hot, Steven Spielberg, The Mirisch Company, Tony Curtis, United Artists, Vic Damone, Walter Mirisch
Walter Mirisch, producer of Some Like It Hot, has died aged 101. Continue reading
19 Tuesday Apr 2022
Posted in Film, Marilyn Monroe, Television, Theatre
≈ Comments Off on The Many Faces of Nehemiah Persoff
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Actors Studio, Alvah Bessie, Arthur Miller, Billy Wilder, Bus Stop, Charles Lederer, Clash By Night, Death of a Salesman, Edward G. Robinson, Elia Kazan, Lee Strasberg, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Nehemiah Persoff, Some Like It Hot, The Sex Symbol, The Symbol, Tony Curtis
The great character actor Nehemiah Persoff, whose many roles included the mobster ‘Little Bonaparte’ in Some Like It Hot, has died at the grand old age of 102. Continue reading
26 Thursday Apr 2018
Posted in Film, Marilyn Monroe, Television
≈ Comments Off on Urban Myths: ‘It’s Me, Sugar’
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Adam Brody, Alex Pettyfer, Arthur Miller, Billy Wilder, Donald Wolfe, Dougray Scott, Felicity Montagu, Gemma Arterton, It's Me Sugar, Jack Lemmon, James Purefoy, Marilyn Monroe, Paula Strasberg, Sky Arts, Some Like It Hot, Tony Curtis, Urban Myths
“She was the biggest star in the world; she had a lot of attention on her, a lot of pressure… there is a scene, when she comes to the door, she says, ‘It’s me, Sugar.’ It took forty-seven shots to make this scene. The film is about that moment, the crisis she had. It’s funny because it’s stupid not to be able to say ‘It’s me, Sugar’… It’s tragic too.” Continue reading
20 Sunday Dec 2009
Posted in Books, Film, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction
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Arthur Miller, Billy Wilder, Marilyn Monroe, Mick LaSalle, Paula Strasberg, Some Like It Hot, Tony Curtis
Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis are indelibly linked in the public consciousness for two main reasons: firstly, they co-starred in the comedy classic, Some Like It Hot (1959); and secondly, because when asked what kissing Marilyn was like, Curtis allegedly replied, ‘Like kissing Hitler.’ Continue reading
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