Find out everything you could ever want to know (and more) about the movie voted best comedy of the century by the American Film Institute. A daring tale of cross-dressing from a time when the subject was all but taboo, Some Like it Hot (1959) tells the story of two jazz musicians who are forced to go undercover in an all-girls' band to escape from the mob. With an ingenious screenplay by I.A.L. Diamond and Billy Wilder, and flawless performances from Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and the famously difficult Marilyn Monroe, Some Like it Hot is the embodiment of comic perfection.
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"It was one of the easiest pictures to make including the difficulties with Marilyn Monroe," says Billy Wilder of his legendary comedy in Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot, edited by Alison Castle and with interviews by Dan Auiler. This large format, suede-covered tribute replete with new interviews with all the major stars (including Jack Lemmon), behind-the-scenes dish, working drafts of the screenplay and hundreds of photos, film stills and other illustrations will dazzle fans of 1950s and '60s Hollywood. Inset into the back cover is an added gem: a facsimile of Monroe's copy of the script, bound like the original and including handwritten notes (when her character, Sugar, is supposed to be startled, Monroe wrote "freeze like a bunny" as a stage direction). Collectors will rejoice.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
Do I read it, eat it or more love to it? To call the book luscious sexy is hardy hyperbole. -- Variey, October 14, 2001
It is the size of an old electric typewriter, and it weighs more that many common domestic animals. -- New Yorker, October 22, 2001
It's hard to imagine a more thorough companion piece to Wilder's 1959 comedy. -- Entertainment Weekly, November 16, 2001
Some Like it Hot is essentially a love letter to one of the auteur's most revered films. -- New York Post, October 2, 2001
This superlative coffee-table tome on Billy Wilder's cross-dressing screwball classic will blow your pantyhose off. -- Time Out New York - November 29, 2001
It is the size of an old electric typewriter, and it weighs more that many common domestic animals. -- New Yorker, October 22, 2001
It's hard to imagine a more thorough companion piece to Wilder's 1959 comedy. -- Entertainment Weekly, November 16, 2001
Some Like it Hot is essentially a love letter to one of the auteur's most revered films. -- New York Post, October 2, 2001
This superlative coffee-table tome on Billy Wilder's cross-dressing screwball classic will blow your pantyhose off. -- Time Out New York - November 29, 2001
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Amasterpiece of a masterpiece!,
By russell Teague (Dallas, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Some Like It Hot (Hardcover)
A scrumptuous, sumptuous, brilliant and beautiful look into the world of Billy Wilder's masterpiece of comic genius. Gorgeous in every respect. Yellow leather cover, interviews with Lemmon, Wilder and Curtis, stiolls from all scenes, color, pull out facsilmile of Marilyn's prompt book with her notations. Just magnificent! A must have coffee table treat deluxe for the Marilyn or Wilder fan! WOW!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wow,
By A Customer
This review is from: Some Like It Hot (Hardcover)
Wow, this has to be the most beautiful book I've ever owned. I'm not exactly sure why the authors have chosen this particular film to give such treatment to (I find the film amusing, but not a museum piece), but I love the treatment. From it's sumptious leather cover with stylized typeface to the cute Billy Wilder bookmark, Marilyn's prompt book which fits just so in the back cover, to the detailed presentation of the scripts, the color photographs, and the press materials it's all a great package. I'm guessing this was published by a German publishing house because there are German, French and other language translations after the chapters and along the margins with the script. I can't say as though I would have spent [price] on this, but it was a fabulous gift that I will treasure.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
sumptuous, weighty, pricey!,
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This review is from: Some Like It Hot (Hardcover)
the most lavishly produced book devoted to a single film to date.the photos & the script drafts are the main attractions here. the interviews, less so. many of the stories have been told before, so there's little new insight or keen analysis. in fact, author dan auiler spoke about the book on wnyc recently and said of Some Like it Hot's first screening that "Audrey Hepburn, Billy Wilder's wife, remembers that Steve Allen was the only person in the theater who laughed at the film, and the rest of the audience just sort of sat there stony faced wondering what they were looking at." don't know what mr. auiler was thinking, but mrs. wilder is not the late audrey hepburn, but audrey young.
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