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Some Like it Hot: The Official 50th Anniversary Companion

Some Like it Hot: The Official 50th Anniversary Companion


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Voted the Number One movie on the American Film Institute's List of 100 Funniest Movies, Some Like It Hot remains an undisguised movie classic, 50 years after its debut.
Billy Wilder's hilarious film skilfully blends several American preoccupations – jazz, gangsters, drag, and Marilyn Monroe – into one scintillating bootleg cocktail.

The Some Like It Hot Companion details the complete history of the comedy, from its roots as a 1951 German comedy to its Hollywood conception, where the superb Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, and Marilyn Monroe transposed the material to the Roaring Twenties. Included are drafts from the screenplay, casting trivia (the boys were almost Frank Sinatra and Danny Kaye), the background history of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and Prohibition-era Chicago, on-set production gossip, location shots from the fabled Hotel Coronado in San Diego (doubling for Miami), lyrics from the jazz-era songs in the film, the Broadway and West End musical versions (one of which starred Tony Curtis), and the on-going legacy of the most hilarious cross-gender film in history.

As the movie concludes, 'Nobody's perfect!' but this companion to the beloved film will be the perfect addition to the library of anyone who loves comedy, jazz, American film – or Marilyn Monroe.

About the Author :
Laurence Maslon is an associate arts professor at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He was awarded the Theatre Museum’s 2005 award for the TV series Broadway: The American Musical, and has worked on many showbiz documentaries with many writing, directing and adaptation credits to his name. Laurence is also the author of The Sound of Music Companion and The South Pacific Companion.

Review :
Some Like It Hot: The Official 50th Anniversary Companion -- This exquisitely illustrated coffee-table book is a must-own for fans of the quintessential Marilyn Monroe comedy, voted by the American Film Institute as cinema's all-time funniest.--Advocate.com Fresh off his companion book (written with Michael Kantor) to the splendid PBS series "Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America," Laurence Maslon has written a loving tribute to one of cinema's most enduring comedies in "Some Like It Hot: The Official 50th Anniversary Companion."--Moving Pictures Magazine


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781862058644
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publisher Imprint: Pavilion
  • Height: 311 mm
  • No of Pages: 192
  • Sub Title: The Official 50th Anniversary Companion
  • Width: 244 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1862058644
  • Publisher Date: 07 Sep 2009
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Weight: 1584 gr


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