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Showing posts with label Marilyn Monroe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marilyn Monroe. Show all posts

Wednesday, 2 March 2016

Thursday, 22 August 2013

The funniest end to a film ever?




I'm sure I've posted the end of Billy Wilder's incomparable Some Like It Hot before but here it is in all of its magnificence. Jack Lemmon and Joe E. Brown achieve comic perfection whilst Tiny Curtis and Marilyn Monroe make-out in the seats behind them.

In fact I have posted this scene before, take a look here for several more magic scenes.

Friday, 28 January 2011

The perfect musical parody


The original Two Little Girls From Little Rock - Marilyn Monroe & Jane Russell


The wonderful French & Saunders parody

Saturday, 2 October 2010

Columnist fail by Matthew Norman

Matthew Norman in today's Telegraph uses the last line of 'Some Like It Hot' - "Nobody's perfect" to illustrate Ed Miliband's dilemma over who to pick as Shadow Chancellor: '... where Joe E. Ross was content to marry Tony Curtis regardless...' FAIL, Joes E. Ross accepts Jack Lemmon's character despite hime being a man. At this point Tony Curtis is behind them in the boat, alongside Marilyn Monroe. Here's the proof...

Sunday, 14 September 2008

Marilyn Monroe on the set of Some Like it Hot

"Some Like it Hot" is one of my favourite films so I was interested to learn that some amateur footage shot on the beach scene set has turned up and is to be auctioned in Australia, you can see glimpses of the footage here...