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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 (see below).
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.
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| Fernand Gravey and Julien Carette femulating in the 1935 French film Fanfare d'amour (Fanfare of Love). Click here to view this film on YouTube. |
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| Dieter Borsche and Georg Thomalla femulating in the 1951 West German film Fanfaren der Liebe (Fanfares of Love). Click here to view this film on YouTube. |
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| Sadri Alışık and İzzet Günay in the 1964 Turkish film Fıstık Gibi Maşallah. Click here to view this film on YouTube. |
Why has Femulating in the movies fallen out of favor in recent times.
ReplyDeleteWhat has happened to successors to Tootsie, Mrs. Doubtfire et al?
Surely there must be suitable scripts around or is it because there are no actors willing to take on these roles..? Pamela
This is my all time favorite #1 film ever! The recent Broadway incarnation of this movie was pretty good, too. They updated the themes as "Jerry/Daphnie" realizes that he's more comfortable as she.
ReplyDeleteI was about nine when in 1964 I saw "Some Like it Hot" on TV. Three years earlier I'd been humiliated by being forced to portray a girl in a summer day camp show. In the aftermath of that performance I viewed crossdressing as something forced upon someone and I couldn't understand why it ever happened. My first thought upon seeing Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in drag was that they were being punished by dressing as women.
ReplyDeleteThe scene that became indelibly marked in my young brain was when Marilyn Monroe climbed into the berth with Jack Lemmon whom she believed was a girl. At times he told himself over and over, "I'm a girl, I'm a girl, I'm a girl."
At the time I didn't realize he was saying that to remind himself of his ruse.
Several years later when I worked up the nerve to secretly dress up as a girl whenever I was left alone in my home, in my mother's nice dresses which fit my teen aged body, I'd twirl in front of the mirror and whisper, "I'm a girl, I'm a girl, I'm a girl."
I saw a short film entitled, "It's me, Sugar." based on Marilyn Monroe's struggle to do the take of that famous line. It's great.
Emily