"Nobody's perfect"...best closing line EVER!!

It's so bizarre for a film being this old, for this day and age of mainstream conceptions of gender and orientation, that this film still holds up as well as it does. It's _astonishing_ how much it still works.

The bit Lemon does with the maracas (he said years later) was the BEST piece of direction any director ever gave him. It broke up his lines and allowed the audience to laugh and pay close attention to his lines between the maracas sound. Great movie! I also really love Wilder's Love in the Afternoon (Audrey Hepburn)...

Part of the decision to shoot in Black & White was because it was more forgiving of Tony’s and Jack’s makeup. Like you said, the stars aligned. Perfect film.

I was lucky to have Dinner with Tony Curtis,. He was much older and had white hair. We talked about "Some Like It Hot". While frustrated by Marilyn''s behavior he also felt sorry for her. He commented on what a wonderful Comedic Actress she was when things were running smoothly, The Voice Actor who helped Tony with his Feminine voice was Paul Frees. Frees was Boris Badanov in the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons and is the voice of the Ghost Host in Disney's Haunted Mansion. At this time he was in a Stage Version of Some Like It Hot playing the Joe E, Brown Character, Osgood Fielding III. A really nice, funny guy, No big ego just Bernie Swartz,

When he was being pressured to replace MM Billy Wilder said, "You know, I've got an aunt who would show up on time, know her lines, not make any trouble. You know what else? Nobody would pay a dime to see my aunt to star in this picture "

They filmed this at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego. It was near Camp Pendleton, the Marine Corps Base. My Charlie, who fought in WWll, spent a lot of time there before he shipped out. Also Joe E Brown was the only entertainer he ever saw overseas. Joe’s son had been killed early on in the war, and he spent his own money to bring his shows to the front line troops. Charlie and the other guys were thrilled to get a show but when Brown came out on the stage and saw the roped off area for officers only, he refused to perform until they took it down. Charlie surged right up front and had his hands on the stage, he was so close. They all adored Joe E Brown.

Yes I agree and can attest that Marilyn looks absurdly good in this film. Like, not human. Perfect even

"Now you've done it. You broke one of my chests," is one of my favorite lines from any comedy. Regarding people shining, there are just some women who have skin like that. The night I saw _Hairspray_ on Broadway Nicole Kidman was in the audience, about two rows away from me. She positively glowed, and that was just in the house lights, not stage lights. She was more beautiful in person than she appeared on film. Joe E. Brown was a hugely popular comic actor in the 30s-40s. He was famous for his wide mouth, and a wide-mouthed yell became his signature. Aside from his comic timing still being impeccable, in '59 there'd also be a certain nostalgia value to casting him.

The beginning killing scene is based on the St. Valentines day massacre She shines in color, in black n white, she could shine in plaid , infrared , whatever. She just shined all over

-I'm a man! -Nobody's perfect. Best final dialogue in a movie ever! lol

Tony Curtis pitched the idea of doing a Cary Grant impression to Billy Wilder. Billy had always wanted to work with Cary Grant and loved the idea. At some point Billy Wilder asked Cary Grant how he liked Tony Curtis doing an impression of him. Cary Grant got mad and said "I don't sound like that"!

Zowie! Great review. Fun fact: Maracas were added to morning after scene where Daphnie announces his engagement because the test audience was laughing so hard at Jack's lines, no one heard Tony's.

Finally, Some Like It Hot is one of my favorite movies. Trivia - The Florida scenes are filmed at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego. I had a chance to visit. Very nice. Also, the hotel was where L. Frank Baum wrote a good portion of The Wizard of Oz.

46:14 Story going around that originally Osgood was going to say "I know" when Jerry said "I'm a man", but they felt it would make the audience uncomfortable (or something like that) so they changed it - frankly speaking, "Nobody's perfect" is a better line anyhow.

From the opening line to the hilarious closer, every word of dialogue seamlessly segues into the next with one hilarious double entendre after another. Heard or read, there isn't a single wasted word to be found anywhere in this script.

Can't go wrong with this movie. Marilyn at her most gorgeous, Jack Lemmon in drag, Tony Curtis doing Cary Grant, and the legendary Joe E Brown. Plus a dose of Edward G Robinson.

I was lucky to watch this movie at the cinema for a Classics Festival, and it was amazing. I loved watching the crowd, mostly people in the late teen and early twenties just laughing non stop. That movie's sense of humor is timeless.

Marilyn has very slight blond peach fuzz on her cheeks (they say it was because she used Vaseline on her face ( which doesn’t sound possible) Anyway her skin & peach fuzz helped her Glow 🌟 By the way, my Husband’s Great grandmother was an immigrant from Italy & had a job making movie costumes and she worked on the beading for the dress that Marilyn wore when she sang at the end of the movie. ✨🌟✨

Now you understand why this is widely considered by film critics as the funniest movie of all time

I idolize Billy Wilder. Probably my favorite director all time. The Apartment is my fave movie and this is up there as well. I feel that the closing lines of both of them are maybe my 2 favorite closing lines ever: “Well, Nobody’s Perfect” “Shut up and deal”

I've always believed that Daphne and Oswin married as best they could, or became roommates, and raised jazz-loving hilarious children!

8:42 this but also heavy make up on Curtis and Lemmon's faces looked really funny and grotesque in color, that's the main reason why Wilder decided to film it in black and white

“Oh, I want mine to wear glasses” 😂, that’s what her husband *at the time* (Arthur Miller) wore.

If you do a gangster month, the best way to wrap it up is "White Heat" (1949). Tackled the genre almost a decade after it fell out of fashion, but it hit the beats and tropes at a much better quality, and Jimmy Cagney's performance is (to put it mildly) dynamite.

This was filmed at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego. It's still there and open, a beautiful hotel.

21:29 All of a sudden one year I realised just how sorry I felt for Sugar in that scene - and in the scene when she mentioned the guy throwing coleslaw in her face because they were out of potato salad.

Tony Curtis’ voice as Josephine was dubbed by Paul Frees, who was famous for voicing many of the Jay Ward cartoons (Rocky and Bullwinkle, etc.). He also provided the dubbed English voice of Toshiro Mifune in the films Midway and Grand Prix.

Tony Curtis said he worked with drag queen friends on Josephine. I think it shows, like he's channeling Clara Bow! Wilder was one of those people who said, in the final edit, Marilyn always looked and sounded great, no matter the background issues. That's movie magic!

The scene between Sugar and Joe actually has some reality in it. Cary Grant for years lived with fellow actor Randolph Scott. Although both of them married women, there were rumors that the two men were a couple. Grant at one point replied that if a woman thought he was gay, she would be only too willing to help "cure" him.

They shot it in black and white because in screen tests Jack Lemmon's and Tony Curtis's makeup made them look green. No joke. Believe it or not, the father of the founder of Shell Oil made a living selling sea shells. Marcus Samuel, Jr. named the company in honor of his father's business. The bit on the beach where Shell Oil Junior holds up the seashell is based on reality. No, I am not making this up. Tony Curtis got so frustrated working with Marilyn that he said kissing her was like kissing Hitler. He regretted it, and distanced himself from what he had said, although I don't think he ever apologized for it. Just for fun, here's a 1922 recording of Miss Patricola singing Runnin' Wild: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hd6fm6SkrZe9kas.html And from 1928, here's Helen Kane singing I Wanna Be Loved by You: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nsmcfpCGsLCyl58.html Thanks for another fun reaction!

Yes! I was waiting for this. It gets better everytime i watch it. I love your inputs during the reaction. You have become my favorite channel. Thank you for the time you take to make these videos.

If you love jack Lemmon you’ll love the odd couple

My grandfather was the actor who helped with Tony Curtis’s voice. Uncredited, but definitely really cool.

So Mia, now that you are familiar with Jack Lemmon and William Powell, is it time to watch Mister Roberts and get better acquainted with Henry Fonda and James Cagney?

I would say, 2 horses drown under me! Hilarious line that gives away that he’s not really in his element.

I never put it together before now. Marilyn especially losing it at the bourbon line. Of course. In the scene, her character has just been informed she's been rejected by another man she hoped for. If she was doing method acting, she'd have to get in touch with all her feelings of rejection. Yipes. (Also recommend Billy Wilder's "Sunset Boulevard")

Another great comedy with a young Jack Lemmon (and Shirley MacLaine) is "Irma La Douce". Please have it in sight for a great movie experience

About how Tony Curtis talks when he plays the millionaire: He's doing an impression of Cary Grant (perhaps a little exaggerated...)

Good to see you’ve enjoyed The Apartment and Some Like It Hot, two of Billy Wilder’s most standout flicks. Now, there’s Sabrina (if you haven’t already seen it) and arguably his two best movies, Sunset Boulevard and Double Indemnity.

Thank you Mia!!!!! So glad that we finally arrived here! Keep up the great reviews of these classic films.

I love this movie and, everyone is brilliant in it. I’ve seen all of Monroe’s work and, can’t help always feeling sad for her. I think she deserved more of a chance and, I think because she really didn’t most of the time is why there were issues. Just my thoughts.

I do envy you the sheer joy of watching films such as this comic masterpiece for the first time!

I read somewhere that Joe Brown's original line, when Jack Lemon said "I'm a man", was "I know". It was then changed to "nobody's perfect" to make it more acceptable to the studio / audience of the time. I'm not sure which I prefer.

Jane Russell Films from 1949 to 1955 are Fantastic to.

Mob and gangster movies would be great. Don’t miss Key Largo, and really anything with Edward G Robinson

Paul Frees, the legendary voice actor who provided the falsetto voice for Tony Curtis is also heard, briefly, overdubbing the dialog of the "undertaker" at the entrance of the speakeasy.

What is amazing is they only had 60 pages of the movie written when they first started filming. Most of the movie was written the day before the next days shoot.

‘Florida’ was really filmed at the Hotel Corona Del Mar in San Diego. The hotel is still there.

14:30 good eye!! I also believe it's connected to "Seven Year Itch"

If you like Lemmon, watch The Odd Couple. Jack is Felix and Walter Matthau is Oscar.

Yay!!!! I can't wait to see your reaction tot his - it's a Classic. One reason this was filmed in B&W was that it made the make-up for Jack & Tony much easier and less expensive. George Raft was an excellent ballroom dancer and spent time on set teaching Joe E. and Jack how to dance. Flipping a coin was his "trademark" in his early career playing gangsters. The St. Valentine's Day Massacre was a real event in Chicago between 2 rival gangs. The Shell Oil Company did start out importing shells from China in the 1800's. Tony Curtis said that he did model his voice after Cary Grant. For a much broader, slapstick comedy with Tony Curtis and Jack Lemon you should watch The Great Race (1965). I'm so glad you now have this film in your life. It is a film you will find yourself coming back to over and over. Carry On!

Watch Operation Petticoat. Tony Curtis finally got to work with Cary Grant and doing a submarine movie. Two things he'd always wanted to do.

I'm fascinated how deeply you FEEL and UNDERSTAND all kind of movies! That takes a lot of life and cinematography experience to make such relevant and precise comments!

Tony Curtis was worried 😟 that Carry Grant wouldn't like his impression 😳. However he loved it 😀 😉.

Tony Curtis and Jack Lemon did another movie together. I think you would like it. It's called The Great Race. It's a long one, 2 hours and 40 minutes. Jack Lemon actually plays 2 characters. It also stars Natalie Wood and Peter Falk. It's an action/adventure movie but is loaded with comedy. It was done in 1965 and was directed by Blake Edwards.

Pat O'Brien, who plays the cop in the speakeasy often played a cop or a priest in the 30s, and, in at least one movie, "Angels with Dirty Faces", was a wonderfully straight character opposite James Cagney. Spats is George Raft, who was famous for tossing and catching a coin, and for turning down roles that Humphrey Bogart picked up. He was a very decent actor, with a wild private life. He and Bogart did act together once in a movie I like a lot, about truckers and the corruption in the business, "They Drive By Night". Apparently Marilyn was very concerned about not being photographed in color; she felt it was important. Wilder promised her that she would be as magnificent in black and white as she was in color, and of course, he managed to do it! One of the reasons he wanted it in black and white was his own concern that color might make Lemmon's and Curtis' female make-up too exaggerated for the audience. Joe E. Brown as Osgood, famous for that wide, wide mouth and smile. I first saw him in the 1930s version of "Midsummer Night's Dream", where, ironically, his character dresses in drag for the play within the play at the end. He made child-me roll on the floor and I have loved him ever since. Here's a fun TCM short with Tony Curtis praising Cary Grant, and giving his reasons for doing Grant for this movie: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/orljZsxez9uVqYk.html. "I Wanna Be Loved By You" was written by the team of Kalmer and Ruby, who wrote songs for the Marx Brothers. A highly fictionalized movie of their lives, "Three Little Words" was made, starring Fred Astaire and Red Skelton (I love it though it really isn't very good). In one scene they "show" how the song was composed. A young Debbie Reynolds plays Helen Kane, who originally sang the song (and was the voice of Olive Oyl of Popeye fame). Here's the clip of Debbie Reynolds dubbed by Helen Kane herself, singing the song in what I think was its original setting: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l999d8SHv5fKmJ8.html My intro to Tony Curtis was in a movie about Harry Houdini, which also starred his wife, Janet Leigh, the mother of his daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis. Janet Leigh is also Marion from "Psycho". He is handsome, and also very funny, and also very good at drama. I also like him in a movie in which he supports Gregory Peck, "Captain Newman, MD". It's a war movie that moves a little uneasily in tone, but he is unfailingly charming as a scrounge of infinite resources. I found the whole movie on KZfaq here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qrSjmtak1J7SiZs.html. The scene I'm thinking of starts at about 1hour and 30 minutes in. You don't need to know the story to relish the moment. Tony Curtis, incidentally, was a nice Jewish boy from the Bronx, so seeing him at this moment is a lot like the fun of watching Irish James Cagney converse in Yiddish, which he does in a couple of movies. Nice touch that in their last dress up as Josephine and Daphne, they aren't wearing make-up, because there was no time. Lemmon and Curtis act together again in a very long, very, very, very funny slapstick movie, "The Great Race", another movie our family can quote at painful length. It also features Natalie Wood in a wonderful role, and Peter Falk managing to steal scenes without effort. Keenan Wynn, one of those great supporting actors who turn up unexpectedly and are wonderful to see, also has a role here.

OMG amazing film a true masterpiece very classic Some Like It Hot produced and directed by Billy Wilder starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, Joe E. Brown, Pat O'Brien and music score by Adolph Deutsch. This film was nominated for 6 Oscars and won 1 for best costume design and was nominated for 3 Golden Globe awards and won 3 including best actor by Jack Lemmon, best actress by Marilyn Monroe and best picture. The famous line in this film is "Well, nobody's perfect". Thank you Mia Tiffany great reaction very awesome😊😊😊😊

Curtis acted like Cary Grant on purpose. Grant was his favorite actor and the reason why himself wanted to be an actor.

One reason it was shot in black and white is that the makeup for Lemmon and Curtis was more realistic than in color.

My very old father was acquainted with Tony Curtis (back when he was Bernie Schwartz) from the Boys Club, Bronx, NY.

The movie I first learned about: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, machine guns, dressing in drag, spats, federal cases and prohibition.

you left out the part where Tony says to Daffney "I knew a girl from Brimmore who was found strangled with her own brassier"

Yes, Tony Curtis decided he wanted his voice to mimic Cary Grant.

Odd seeing the color photography, so glad they filmed in black and white. They filmed at the Hotel Coronado on Catalina Island, California.

Tony Curtis and Jack Lemon....THE GREAT RACE. You will never forget it!!!

So glad you enjoyed this! I was afraid maybe we were building it up so much that you’d be disappointed. I love this movie, and it’s in my top 5 favorite films of all time.

You’re so smart- the steam scene is directly inspired by the Seven Year Itch.

I notice in the comments people mentioning Jean Harlow. You will adore Red Dust, starring Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, and Mary Astor(of Maltese Falcon fame). The movie was remade in the fifties as Mogambo starring Clark Gable, Ava Gardner in the Jean role and Grace Kelly in the Mary role. The original is the more steamier version because it was pre-code, and Clark Gable was 20 years younger

You really did an excellent job with the commentary. I've seen this several times but a lot of the info you shared was new to me and you wove it seamlessly into the picture...

Paper Moon needs to be on your list of must sees

"OH MY GOD IT'S SPATZ COLUMBO!!!" I'm fucking dying 🤣🤣🤣

Those hotel scenes were filmed in San diego..the Hotel del Coronado. I've stayed there many times. Very elegant, very stately, very old...for CA. Right on a beautiful SC beach, as seen.

It still amazes me that Jamie-Lee Curtis’ father is Tony Curtis

This is my favorite movie of all time and I think it has the best last line of any movie ever!

I love your channel, Mia. I LOVE it! Some of these Marilyn movies I haven't seen in so long, so I haven't watched those reactions yet, but just in general (and also specifically THIS video), I just love your channel, it's the only one like it! You did a great edit on this movie! I've seen this a million times, but not in a while, and I did not need a refresher while watching this video! I really like how you pepper these videos in with trivia. I'm really loving how you are talking about Marilyn's state during the filming of this.....it wasn't until I was watching THIS video that I could see visibly that she seems not in the best state of affairs. Next thing I know: YOU'RE discussing that very thing!!!! Anyways, I am so excited to delve into all of your other videos, you have so many good ones I want to hit. THANK YOU!!!! What a great tribute to Marilyn, by doing all these movies in a row. I actually am probably going to watch them all, with or without a refresher viewing! PS: I just realized: you did not do "The Asphalt Jungle"! Aha! So you have that to look forward to, maybe in a film noir month, or a John Huston retrospective! She's good in that one! Not a lead role, though! Thanks, Mia!! :D

At first the costume department was making Josephine and Daphne look dowdy. The guys saw the nice clothes the women wore and insisted on their costumes looking as good as that. When they thought the makeup was working the guys tested it by going to the commissary in full drag. No one thought twice about these women. They they told makeup not to change a thing, it works.

Operation Petticoat (1959) Cary Grant & Tony Curtis in a WW2 comedy set on a submarine. Not great perhaps, but definitely fun and polished.

The last line of the film was used as Billy Wilder's epitaph.

Everything that Joe predicted came true by the way. "Suppose the Dodgers leave Brooklyn! Suppose lake Michigan overflows?" The best one I think was when he guessed, "They repealed prohibition?" And somehow he managed to make one "premonition" come true when Jerry/Daphne said, "He also has a bicycle!" and a few scenes later, "Well I'll be... he DOES have a bicycle," Jerry says as Joe rides past on said bicycle waving as he went. And the last bit of the movie when Jerry tries to come up with reasons to not get married, finally confessing, "I'm a man!" and Osgood saying the best line ever: "Well... nobody's perfect!" Great movie :)

This is considered one of her best roles.

I would love a month dedicated to gangster films! My personal favorite is White Heat starring James Cagney.

"Florida" was Hotel Del Coronado on Coronado Island in California. Though it has since been expanded, it's still there, and it's beautiful.

If you liked Osgood's line "Well, nobody is perfect", then you would love his famous line in the musical Show Boat from 1951.

BTW, like 7 Brides for 7 Brothers, this was later made into a stage musical called "Sugar". It was our spring musical one year, back in school.

i love thi movie, i had watched it over and over dozen times, I also love the black and white movies so much

Back then - in 1929 - the Mob owned Florida and there weren’t thousands of hotels. As you know by now it was shot in California. In an interview I watched, Tony Curtis thought the question about how it was to kiss Marilyn was so stupid, he joked and said it was like kissing hitler, but he was totally joking. It was heavenly!!!!!

When you watch a great comedy film either by yourself or with a few people you lose the important component of audience participation. In no other film is that missing ingredient so important. I have had the privilege of watching this great film in a movie theater with an enthusiastic audience several times in my (long) life, and at each performance absolute pandemonium broke out in the theater during the upper berth sequence. The entire audience just taken over in helpless, raucous laughter, with all of us fighting to keep from falling out of our seats. The laughter was so prolonged that several minutes went by without our being able to hear even a word of dialogue.

Mia, you should check out the 1955 dark comedy "Were No Angels" starring Humphrey Bogart, Peter Usinoff, and Aldo Ray, co-starring Basil Rathbone and Leo G. Carroll (Mr. Wavery from Man from Uncle). It's kind of a suttle Christmas movie with 3 convicts helping out a family. It's based on a French play and the dialogue is witty. Example: "What are you staring at?" Jules: I'm staring at you, I've never seen anyone quite like you," (Humphry Bogart walking by): "I have, but not at Christmas."

Best ending line ever. lol

The picture was filmed on location at Hotel Coronado.

Mia, you really picked a winner this time. Thanks for reacting to this amazing classic, which is almost not represented at all among KZfaq reactions. By the way, it's a complete non sequitur, but I'd like to see you react to Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" or "North by Northwest" because they're so brilliant. Just a thought.

This is my favorite movie of all time. Makes me laugh every time I watch it & perfectly cast.

Just an FYI. Osgood, was a played by Jos E Brown, who was a great American actor and comedian, in the 1930's through the 1960's. During WW II, Joe E., spent a lot of time, tireless entertaining the troops very near the front combat lines with the USO, after his son Captain Don E. Brown, crashed in a training bomber in 1942. Entertaining the troops, was a way for him to pay tribute to his son and those who had made the ultimate sacrifice for their nation. After the war, it seems Joe E's acting career again took off, and his role in Some Like It Hot (1959) is one of his most unforgettable rolls. A movie you should do a review on, is Mr. Roberts, with Henry Fonda, Jack Lemon, James Cagney, William Powell, Nick Adams, and a bunch of other great actors. It's a classic comedy-drama.

This is a suggestion. One of my very favorite Movies is called Ball of Fire. Stars Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyk and Dana Andrews. Barbara Stanwyck plays a gangsters girlfriend... a night club performer. (Dana Andrews) She has to hide out because the DA is after her to testify against Andrews. Without getting into too much she hides out with a bunch of professors who are writing an encyclopedia. It's fun and great acting. Cooper is a young man. All the other professors are all old but liven up with a young lady. So it is a gangster film with such an endearing cast. The old professors are so great as an addition.

You really need to watch "The Shop Around The Corner" The precursor to the Tom Hanks - Meg Ryan romcom. The director and cast are (per IMDB) Director Ernst Lubitsch Stars Margaret Sullavan James Stewart Frank Morgan Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand each other, without realizing that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.

I know it is not a film, but Tony Curtis and Roger Moore have a great chemistry between them in a TV series called "The Persuaders" (with great John Barry theme music)

Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis are like the duo of the century. Oh my dear, no no no. You haven't seen the many movies with Lemmon and Matthieu.

Probably the most amazing thing about Marilyn Monroe was that she actually was as good as legend has it. An interesting note, one of the blondes 👱‍♂️ tickling Jack Lemmon was Grace Lee Whitney who would play Yeoman Rand in Star Trek O.R.S. 😉

You need to see “The Roaring Twenties.” James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart: it doesn’t get any better!