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
20 Sunday Dec 2009
Posted in Books, Film, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction
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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