"Nobody's perfect!" - best movie closer ever.

You're just now getting acquainted with the way movies used to be made, like credits at the beginning instead of the end. I hope you will continue looking at some of the all-time classics, if only for geezers like me.

Alcohol was illegal in the U.S> from 1920 through 1933. That's why they were hiding booze in a hearse, and they had a secret club (called a "speakeasy") where they served "coffee." The bit about Shell Oil and the guy collecting sea shells has a basis in reality. The father of the founder of Shell Oil sold sea shells for a living. He named the company after his father's occupation. Marilyn Monroe could be hard to work with, especially on this movie. She'd show up late, not learn her lines, lock herself in her trailer. . . She had her own acting coach who would interfere with Billy Wilder's direction. Tony Curtis said that kissing her was like kissing Hitler, though sometime later he said he was only joking. Things got so bad that Billy Wilder didn't invite her to the wrap party. But somehow, through all the difficulties, she turned in a great performance in this film.

"When are lollipops fuzzy?" When they get dropped on the carpet after you started on them.

This is one of my favorite comedies, had the best finishing line ever!

One more: Tony Curtis is doing a great imitation of actor Cary Grant's voice when playing the millionaire. That explains the later joke, "And where did you get that phony accent? Nobody talks like that."

ZOWIE! HAHA this movie just gets better and better with every rewatch.

Henry, that sneaky bar at the beginning was called a speakeasy, defined as an illicit establishment selling alcoholic beverages. Other trivia: Tony Curtis, and his actress wife Janet Leigh (Hitchcock's Psycho) are the star-studded parents of actress Jamie Leigh Curtis who did pretty well too (good genes). Marilyn Monroe (one of the most iconic stars ever) married New York Yankee Hall-of-Famer Joe DiMaggio, and later playwright Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman, The Crucible). She also allegedly had affairs with President John F. Kennedy and his brother Bobby. The mentally-fragile blonde's death in 1962 at age 36 was ruled a suicide.

Fun fact: In the German translation, they changed the "fuzzy end of the lollipop" to the "short end/tip of the sausage". Because how else are Germans gonna understand what she means if it isn't a _sausage_ mataphor lol

One of the best movies out there.

The coin flip was a knack from George Raft himself, who plays Spats, so this is a funny little inside joke, especially Raft's snark at the tossing itself. Raft was a famous Warners Studio star, usually playing gangsters, though, like fellow gangster actor James Cagney, he was a talented song and dance man too. He ended up turning down a series of roles which went instead to Humphrey Bogart, by which means, Raft's star sank and Bogart's rose. Bogart and Raft play brothers, and very well, in a movie about truckers, "They Drive By Night". A couple of decades later, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis would be together again in the very funny epic movie "The Great Race". Reiterating that Curtis is imitating Cary Grant as the millionaire. Osgood is played by veteran comedian Joe E. Brown, famous for the size of his mouth and the siren-like yowls he could emit from it in times of stress. Interestingly, he also had a turn in drag playing Flute the Bellows Mender in the 1930s version of "Midsummer Nights Dream", which featured James Cagney as Bottom and Mickey Rooney as Puck. I can't find a video clip, but here's a photo from that scene: www.pinterest.com/pin/89509111320584104/

2:00 It's prohibition - all alcohol was illegal.

Lollipops are fuzzy when you put them in your pocket

Prohibition, alcohol was banned in the US for about 7yrs coz of religion. Little thing, Wilder is pronounced like wild animals.

Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego is the Seminlo Ritz

Joe E Brown had a prolific film career in the 1930s... Try KZfaq for his movies

This was a very cool movie I like it!

Well, they didn't have TV, so I guess we'll have to go with reading.

Your reaction was good as your reactions are always good. However, having said that, I was about to compliment you on having chosen such a good movie when you revealed that it was a poll result. You say that you have basically no information on Marilyn Monroe because her career was before your birth. Does that mean that you have no knowledge of anything before your birth? That would be sad. Also, the letter "i" in the name "Wilder" is pronounced the same way it is in the word "wild." Also, "I guess at this time, it's illegal to have an entertainment thing." No, sale or purchase of alcohol was illegal. It was called "Prohibition."

Boom boom .. boom boom boom .. Wait, this isn't a reaction to the Power Station's hit? I'm older than dirt but can't say I've ever watched this.

This is during Prohibition, when drinking alcohol was illegal. It was a great time for the gangsters. :(

The female voice that Tony Curtis was actually done by voice actor Paul Frees . I would love to hear Curtis' unsuitable real female type voice in this role .