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.
@henryellow Жыл бұрын
I'll get to them one by one 😉 though whether I watch them sooner or later will depend on the polls.
@Jeff_Lichtman5 ай бұрын
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.
@HuntingViolets7 ай бұрын
"When are lollipops fuzzy?" When they get dropped on the carpet after you started on them.
@shallendor2 ай бұрын
This is one of my favorite comedies, had the best finishing line ever!
@glennwisniewski953611 ай бұрын
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."
@shwicaz10 ай бұрын
ZOWIE! HAHA this movie just gets better and better with every rewatch.
@glennwisniewski953611 ай бұрын
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.
@henryellow11 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing, Glenn! 😊
@baguettegott34097 ай бұрын
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
@gabrieldilaurentis29029 ай бұрын
One of the best movies out there.
@melenatorr4 ай бұрын
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/
@henryellow4 ай бұрын
Cool! Thanks for sharing the fun facts 😊
@agenttheater5Ай бұрын
2:00 It's prohibition - all alcohol was illegal.
@salsonny Жыл бұрын
Lollipops are fuzzy when you put them in your pocket
@henryellow Жыл бұрын
You mean people used to put unwrapped lollipops in their pocket? 😧
@tltatt10 ай бұрын
Children were known to do so and I imagine still do. Some figures of speech come from childhood experiences.@@henryellow
@henryellow10 ай бұрын
@@tltatt I was just surprised because none of the people around me have ever done it 😂 As a child, if I put an unwrapped lollipop in my pocket, my parents would kill me (if I haven't drowned in ants yet).
@naebodyknows7016 Жыл бұрын
Prohibition, alcohol was banned in the US for about 7yrs coz of religion. Little thing, Wilder is pronounced like wild animals.
@henryellow Жыл бұрын
No wonder 🤔 Oh, "wild"er. Ok got it, thanks for letting me know 😊
@valeriewiggins896210 ай бұрын
@@henryellow..And the mob took advantage of prohibition by selling boot leg liquor to underground clubs called Speakeasy’s, and they were raided from time to time.
@scottshaw52717 күн бұрын
Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego is the Seminlo Ritz
@scottshaw52717 күн бұрын
Joe E Brown had a prolific film career in the 1930s... Try KZfaq for his movies
@strawberryblossom97cherry Жыл бұрын
This was a very cool movie I like it!
@henryellow Жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it 😊
@strawberryblossom97cherry Жыл бұрын
Yes I really enjoy it
@HuntingViolets7 ай бұрын
Well, they didn't have TV, so I guess we'll have to go with reading.
@brandonflorida1092 Жыл бұрын
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."
@henryellow11 ай бұрын
I intentionally choose which movies to put up for poll 😉 so these movies are the ones I'm ready to watch. Not at all, I know that Marilyn Monroe was a singer / actor / model who tragically passed on at a young age due to drug abuse. I consider myself "unfamiliar" with her because I have not listened to her hit songs, watched the movies she starred in, or checked out her modelling career. While editing the movie reaction, I was sad to find out that she was already facing health and psychological problems during the filming of the movie. And that it was only a few years before her tragic end. Oh yes, someone did mention about "Wilder" pronounced similar to "wild". Thanks for letting me know 😊 I didn't get it when Joe said "They repealed Prohibition?" but I found out later. Even though the sale of alcohol was illegal, many people were still able to get their hands on it. That goes to show us that people will always find a way. It's the same thing with drugs nowadays...
@brandonflorida109211 ай бұрын
@@henryellow They say that filming this movie was horribly difficult because some of her scenes had to be filmed again and again to get a good take. Prohibition was also called The Volstead Act and it didn't really stop consumption of alcohol, but it did create a new class of criminals. It was in effect from 1919 to 1933.
@henryellow11 ай бұрын
@@brandonflorida1092 Apparently, even the scene which required her to say one line, "Where's that bourbon?" required many, many takes. I can't imagine how frustrated Billy Wilder must have felt at the time.
@A_real_Ha_So Жыл бұрын
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.
@henryellow Жыл бұрын
This isn't related to Power Station 😂 I didn't realize there was a song with the exact same name as this movie.
@HuntingViolets7 ай бұрын
This is during Prohibition, when drinking alcohol was illegal. It was a great time for the gangsters. :(
@henryellow7 ай бұрын
Yea, before this movie I never knew alcohol was illegal. I learned something new.
@davidlauder-qi5zv6 ай бұрын
The prohibition of alcohol happened in the US from 1919 to 1930. You should learn about your country's history. @@henryellow
@applejayz1987Ай бұрын
@@henryellowfun fact, the incident at the start where they witness the gang getting gunned down in the garage was based on the St Valentines Day Massacre, an infamous hit by the South Side on the North Side gang. Famous mobster Al Capone, the original "Scarface", managed to slip charges for it, as he had many times before, but it helped taint his public image he regularly hid behind.
@JJJBRICE10 ай бұрын
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 .
@henryellow10 ай бұрын
Then he might have been identified right away and the story would end there 😂 just maybe (can't be sure without hearing his real female type voice)