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Some Like It Hot. Marilyn Monroe as a thrush with an all-girls' band in the 1920s. The primitive Monroe, before Miller and Method, seemed funnier, lusher, smarter. But the movie is a fine Keystone-style comedy...
Wilder took much less of a commercial chance in signing up Marilyn Monroe for her first role in two years. In Some Like It Hot, she proves what the psychiatrists, the social critics and press agents have been saying throughout the lengthy hiatus: she qualifies as one of the remarkable public personalities of the day. Her talent, as revealed in the film, lies in an ability to say every line as a double entendre-meanings that are not smutty because the listener thinks of both of them simultaneously. Her presence is like the telling of a dirty joke whose punch...
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...