Just Add Lemmon and a Nut ; Recipe for a Movie Classic? Book of the Week [Eire Region]
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Some Like It Hot: Me, Marilyn And The Movie By Tony Curtis and Mark A Viera Virgin Books e16.75 ***
Billy Wilder put it best. Looking back on the filming of Some Like It Hot -- a process that produced one of the funniest movies of all time but damn near killed the director -- he said: 'We were in midflight when we discovered there was a nut on the plane.'See the full content of this document
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Just Add Lemmon and a Nut ; Recipe for a Movie Classic? Book of the Week [Eire Region]
That nut was Marilyn Monroe. And what a magnificent nut she was. She makes Grace Jones sound positively biddable.
It came to be a commonplace on the set that 'MM' stood for 'Missing Monroe'. A reporter joked that she 'did the seemingly impossible by arriving half an hour late aboard a Trans World Airlines pla...See the full content of this document
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