Some Like It Hot: The Official 50th Anniversary Companion - Hardcover

Maslon, Laurence

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061761230 ISBN 13: 9780061761232

Publisher: Harper, 2009

Synopsis

Featuring never-before-seen photos of Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon, Some Like It Hot: The Official 50th Anniversary Companion celebrates Billy Wilder’s classic film, voted the number one funniest movie of all time by the American Film Institute. Granted full access to the MGM vaults, author Laurence Maslon offers a fully illustrated companion guide of memorabilia and behind-the-scenes tidbits perfect for anyone who loves comedy, jazz, and American film.

About this title

About the Author

Laurence Maslon is an associate arts professor at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He is the author of The Sound of Music Companion and The South Pacific Companion, and, with Michael Kantor, wrote the documentary series Broadway:The American Musical and Make 'Em Laugh, and their companion volumes. He lives in New York with his wife, Genevieve, their son, Miles, and their dog, Ruby.

From the Back Cover

Selected as America's Funniest Movie by the American Film Institute, Some Like it Hot remains an undisputed classic fifty years after its release, as it continues to capture three of American culture's great preoccupations-jazz, gangsters, and Marilyn Monroe. The Official 50th Anniversary Companion details the history of this side-splitting farce from its roots as an obscure 1951 German film to its Hollywood conception, where Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond transposed the material to the Roaring Twenties and director Wilder cast the brilliant Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon in the starring roles.

As well as previously unpublished images, posters, and documents from the MGM archives, this book includes selections from the screenplay, casting notes, on-set production anecdotes, and location shots from the fabled Del Coronado in San Diego (doubling for Florida). In addition, songs and music used in the film's jazz era setting, background information on Chicago during Prohibition, the story of the Broadway and West End musical versions (one of which starred Tony Curtis), the previously undiscovered television pilot based on the movie, and the ongoing legacy of the most famous drag comedy in film history.

Featuring cameo appearances by Arthur Miller, Edward G. Robinson, Al Capone, Tommy Steele, Robert Morse, Tina Louise, and Tom Hanks, The Official 50th Anniversary Companion is the first book to tell the full story of Some Like it Hot from start to finish, from wig to high heels.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harper
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0061761230
• ISBN 13: 9780061761232
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192