Word: marilyne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some Like It Hot. Marilyn Monroe's first movie role since The Prince and the Showgirl, nearly two years ago, leaves the impression that an earlier Monroe, with or without Miller and Method, was funnier, lusher, smarter. The movie is a fine, pie-throwing-style parody on gangsters and gagsters of the 1920s...
Lightly togged in a skintight cream-colored dress-and little else-Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe bantered breathlessly with windswept Chicago newsmen on a potpourri of familiar topics. On underwear: "I have no prejudice against it." Sex: "How do I know about man's need for a sex symbol? I'm a girl. Sex counts like everything else. I'd never discount it." Press conferences: "Occasionally it's fun. Sometimes I can even get a chance to find out what I'm thinking...
Some Like It Hot. Marilyn Monroe's first movie role since The Prince and the Showgirl, nearly two years ago, leaves the impression that an earlier Monroe, with or without Miller and Method, was funnier, lusher, smarter. The movie itself is a fine, pie-throwing-style parody on gangsters and gagsters of the 1920s...
...Florida, Lemmon's bewigged and beaded feminine charms catch the eye of a much-married millionaire (Joe E. Brown). Curtis meanwhile finds time to forsake female impersonation long enough to quick-change into yachting cap and blazer, and woo Marilyn with a fairly good impersonation of Cary Grant. At the end, boy wins girl, and old boy is still hotly pursuing his falsied Lemmon...
Lipsticked, mascaraed and tilting at a precarious angle ("How do they walk in these things?"), Actor Lemmon digs out most of the laughs in the script. As for Marilyn, she's been trimmer, slimmer and sexier in earlier pictures...