Some Like it Hot - The Companion
Voted the Number One movie on the American Film Institute`s List of 100 Funniest Movies, "Some Like It Hot" remains an undisguised movie classic, 50 years after its debut. Billy Wilder`s hilarious film skilfully blends several American preoccupations - jazz, gangsters, drag, and Marilyn Monroe - into one scintillating bootleg cocktail. "The Some Like It Hot Companion" details the complete history of the comedy, from its roots as a 1951 German comedy to its Hollywood conception, where the superb Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, and Marilyn Monroe transposed the material to the Roaring Twenties. Included are drafts from the screenplay, casting trivia (the boys were almost Frank Sinatra and Danny Kaye), the background history of the St....
Издательство:
Anova Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011