Facts about the legendary film

Cool piece of informative facts about the legendary film "Some Like It Hot».

Initially, the film was planned to remove the color, but after a few screen tests this idea was abandoned because of too noticeable green tint around heavy makeup Curtis and Lemmon in the images of Josephine and Daphne.





But the ease with which they entered the image of Daphne and Josephine: one (just in suits dzhazistok) actors went to a nearby kinopavilonov, went into the ladies' room and sat quietly in front of the mirror, she began to paint her lips. Passing by the dancer, never for a moment suspected that something was wrong, even asked where the "girls" are removed.



Marilyn Monroe was matchless ... on the screen, but not during the filming. Because of it, Curtis had over 42 doubles nadkusyvat leg of chicken, because the star could not correctly play the scene. Because of this, the boys 47 doubles were standing on high heels, sweating under the silk stockings and overhead busts.



As a consultant for the principal actors was invited to present a transvestite from Berlin. After the first day of class, he said, "Curtis copes and Lemmon is simply not possible, it will not work, he always refuses to do what I command him." What actor explained his policy: "I do not want a convincing transformation into a woman, we have to represent the two men who uncomfortable in a dress." Directed supported Lemmon line to the obvious displeasure of a transvestite.



Marilyn Monroe was pregnant during the filming, the result looked much thicker than usual. For the production of photographic film used on the body understudy, subsequently mounted head Monroe.



The original title of the film - "Some Like It Hot" - a quote from the children's song "Hot oatmeal with peas" Full quote: "Some like it hot, others - cold, someone - a nine-pot» (Some like it hot, some like it cold, Some like it in the pot, nine days old). The phrase is also used in one of the dialogues, when the remark, "Junior", which he prefers classic hot jazz, the heroine Marilyn Monroe argues: "Some like it hot».



The working title of the painting was "Not tonight, Josephine».

The film's director Billy Wilder wanted the role of Jerry / Daphne played Frank Sinatra. His choice for the role of Darling - not Marilyn Monroe, but the actress Mitzi Gaynor.



Many dialogues Marilyn could read just by looking at the text - for example, in a scene of farewell phone conversation with Curtis Monroe can be seen as her eyes run over the lines.

It's funny that the only "Oscar" film, which has been recognized and the audience (in the US box office budget of $ 5 million. Was surpassed by more than seven times) and critics (as voted by the American Film Institute in 2001, she even named the best comedy in history), went for only suits in black and white film. But everything is explained very simply - in the year to Kinoolimpe reigned Biblical superkoloss "Ben Hur", grab a record number of awards (11).



After watching the producers told the director that he should alter everything, show more Marilyn. They also said: "A good comedy can not go longer than one and a half hours!". Wilder has promised to make the necessary changes, in fact, cut one scene for fifteen seconds, and everything else is left in its original form.



During the re-release of the Soviet film distribution in 1985, this film looked 28, 9 million. People. Censorship cut 25 minutes of material, of which more than half of kissing the heroine Marilyn Monroe and other scenes that are close to erotic.

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