Tag: SOME LIKE IT HOT

March 3, 2018 /

Who designed the wardrobe on Some Like it Hot? Orry-Kelly. Did he win an Academy Award for it? Yes!

March 29, 2017 /

Jack Lemmon talks about Marilyn Monroe — Some Like it Hot

July 12, 2014 /

Well I’m your fairy godmother. And I’m gonna keep an eye on you…

  Don’t get stuck with the fuzzy end of the lollipop, read It’s in His Kiss

January 12, 2014 /

Best Actor – Musical or Comedy – Golden Globes – Jack Lemmon in gowns by Orry-Kelly

January 12, 2014 /

Best Actress – Musical or Comedy – Marilyn Monroe

January 12, 2014 /

From sketch, to stage concept, to screen – Orry-Kelly for Auntie Mame

January 12, 2014 /

Unravelling secrets of man who dressed the stars – Orry-Kelly

IT’S A mystery that involves Australia’s most prolific Academy Award winner, a missing manuscript and the Hollywood star who was once his lover. While few Australians have heard of the costume designer Orry-Kelly, he won three Oscars in the 1950s – for An American in Paris, Les Girls and Some…

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June 22, 2013 /

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. WILDER… AND A BIT OF MY NOVEL

In the den she opened the liquor cabinet and looked at an assortment of bottles she could have sworn had been at the same levels since 1987. She sat on the couch where she had read while her father watched the Academy Awards. There was an ashtray on the side…

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February 21, 2013 /

THE INESTIMABLE: BILLY WILDER

That’s the director, lurking in the background, with his trademark owl framed spectacles. When I was a tyke my father took me to a retrospective screening at the DGA of SOME LIKE IT HOT – a then elderly Billy Wilder and Tony Curtis presided. The screening was packed and the…

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September 26, 2012 /

THE SINGING STRINGS

I’ve recently been contacted by one of the children of these glorious gals, they inform me the band’s manager, Dr. Leonard Stallcup, kept them on a tight leash and they were very sheltered, not at all like the characters in SOME LIKE IT HOT. You can hear them play on…

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