Tag: Tony Curtis

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 /

“My God, I think there have been more books on Marilyn Monroe than on World War 2, and there’s a great similarity. It was not easy. It was hell. But it was well worth it once you got it on the screen.” Billy Wilder

“She was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given gift. Believe me, in the last fifteen years there were ten projects that came to me, and I’d start working on them and I’d think, ‘It’s not going to work,…

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March 29, 2017 /

Jack Lemmon talks about Marilyn Monroe — Some Like it Hot

August 16, 2016 /

Tony Curtis on cross-dressing… Some Like it Hot

Tony Curtis — Orry-Kelly did the dresses for Marilyn Monroe, and Jack and I were going to wear clothes out of Western Costumes. So I went to Western Costumes and they fitted us out in these dresses that belonged to Loretta Young and Kate Smith and Debbie Reynolds and Lola…

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May 12, 2015 /

Making Spartacus was enough acting to last anybody a lifetime. You know, after we had been filming a year Kirk Douglas sent me a magnum of champagne with a little note saying, “I hope our second year will be as happy as our first.” Jean Simmons

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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August 10, 2013 /

THE MANY FACES OF LOVE – JANET LEIGH AND TONY CURTIS