Interesting facts about the filming.
Most viewers do not ask this question is an old movie, so black and white. But it is misleading. By the time of the filming of this picture in the US, there was no shortage of color film and color film was no longer a curiosity. That film “Not tonight, Josephine” — so it was originally going to be called — was planned to remove the color.
This was required and the contract of Marilyn Monroe, the performer of the main female role. She was supposed to appear only in the colored pictures — it was a condition of Fox studios, which was owned by the actress.
But Director Billy Wilder disliked colored film, preferring the good old black-and-white. Yes, and the story that they came up with the writer Izzy diamond, just demanded to stylize the film under pre-war gangster movies.
But there was another problem makeup. After the first color screen test cosmetics Josephine and Daphne was too “heavy” and given the film too obvious and ineradicable green tint.
To actors Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis get used to the images of women wore dresses, went right on his heels, found womens the gait and gestures, a film production company from Berlin were specially invited well-known female impersonator, transvestite Barbet (Babette).
The first lesson from Curtis was great — it effectively looked Prim and proper Josephine, although internally were extremely constrained, which could not be said about his counterpart, the Lemon. Here was the opposite: Daphne was feeling no embarrassment no dresses, no makeup, “she” wander freely in this form in the Studio and acted as if life were dresses.
All attempts to teach the Lemmon look like a real woman were unsuccessful. “Lemmon is simply impossible, it will not work, he refuses to do what I command him,” fumed Babette. What Jack said: “I don’t want a convincing transformation into a woman, we have to portray two men who are uncomfortable in a dress”. The film’s Director Billy Wilder supported the line of Lemmon. Annoyed Babette left filmmakers in three days.
Choosing make-up and make-up, wearing wigs, dressed in dresses, abuses in studs, smiley Lemmon invited Curtis to arrange the exam: “Tony, let’s visit in order to check the female toilet. Only in the neighboring soundstage. Get to know us or not?” If the room your pavilion them even a little bit learned, in the powder room of another pavilion, the situation changed. The actors approached the mirror and began to touch up the lips and draw the lashes. A passing dancer, unaware even asked what the film “girls” removed.
Happy “exam” Josephine and Daphne seemed to Billy Wilder. The Director inspected the shining of the Curtis and Lemmon and praise: “Come, girls. Not ideal, but acceptable — you are, after all, men who pretend to be women… don’t change a thing. So we take off…” And at this point, Wilder understood the movie and the color is definitely not going to happen. And… happy.
Wilder managed to circumvent the contract he explained to Monroe that men disguised as women, in color do not look like the comic pair, but as “two painted green gay”. After seeing the samples, the actress is “horrified” at once agreed to a black and white version.
Well, we just have some color photos from the shoot so we can see how it would look like the movie “Some like it hot” in color.
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