Liking Like It Hot

Is a remake in the works?

TCM showed Some Like It Hot Monday night. I had not seen the film from beginning to end since it was first shown on television in 1964. Since the Missus went to bed early and the kiddo went to a Jelly Roll concert, I figured it was a good opportunity to watch the film uninterrupted — and so it was.

Marilyn Monroe was gorgeous. In my opinion, she was more gorgeous in Some Like It Hot than in any other film she ever appeared in.

Some Like It Hot was not an original. Two foreign films with very similar plots preceded it, and more foreign versions followed after its success.

The boys’ femulations were inconsistent. Jack Lemmon’s Daphne was uniform throughout the film, but Tony Curtis’ Josephine was better in the first half than in the second half. Perhaps because, in the second half, he switched genders a few times and was unable to spend as much time doing his makeup as he did when he was full-time Josephine in the first half.

By the way, Josephine’s voice was dubbed by voice actor Paul Frees during most of the film.

I guess nobody’s perfect.

Fernand Gravey and Julien Carette femulating in the 1935 French film Fanfare d'amour (Fanfare of Love).
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Dieter Borsche and Georg Thomalla femulating in the 1951 West German film Fanfaren der Liebe (Fanfares of Love).
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Sadri Alışık and İzzet Günay in the 1964 Turkish film Fıstık Gibi Maşallah.
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