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SUMMARY INTRODUCTION ACTOR SECTION...................................................................................................................................2 Billy wilder (The director)..................................................................................................................2 Marilyn Monroe (Sugar Kane Kowalczyk).........................................................................................3 Tony Curtis (Joe/Mr Shell/Josephine).................................................................................................5 Jack Lemmon (Jerry – Daphne)..........................................................................................................6 CRITICS SECTION.................................................................................................................................7

CIVILISATION Cross-dressing art...............................................................................................................................8 Women in US....................................................................................................................................11 Al Capone’s life................................................................................................................................15 MOVIE COMPARISON.........................................................................................................................18 Chouchou..........................................................................................................................................18 Gentlemen prefer blonds...................................................................................................................18 Scarface............................................................................................................................................19

PERSONAL COMMENTARY POSTER COMMENTARY.....................................................................................................................20 SCENE COMMENTARY.......................................................................................................................22 PERSONAL COMMENTARY...............................................................................................................24

MOE LIFE

Some like it hot: a fifties comedy from America by

N°8 Seember

Billy Wilder.

Founder Lauriane Charbonnel

In Chicago, during the prohibition, two musicians: Joe (the Saxophone player)

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and Jerry (the bass player) are going to the car repair shop to get back their

Editorial office director Lauriane Charbonnel

friend’s car. Unfortunately, they are in the wrong place at the worst moment. There, they are witnesses of the St

Artistic director Mr Aubric

Valentine’s day massacre – a famous slaughter by the Mafia – but they succeed to run away. Of course, the Mafia never leave witnesses! They track them! To escape them, they must join an or-

Redaction associates Mr Niles and Ms Rawe

chestra to go to Florida for three weeks. But... This orchestra is only for girls. They have no choice so, they dress up as women. Now, Joe is Josephine and Jerry, Daphne. But in their heart, they are still men with lot of beautiful girls in a hostel in Florida. When

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Joe decides to play Josephine but also Mr Shell, a rich heir to attract the orchestra singer: Sugar. When an old rich man falls in love with Daphne and when the Mafia track them; it leads to lots

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of problems... Definitely, this trip will not be holiday! With Tony Curtis in the role of Joe, Jack Lemmon playing Jerry

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and Sugar playing by Marilyn Monroe. Monroe It's a movie full of comic scenes and society issues.

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to TITLE'S ANECDOTE At first, one of the first title chosen by

American cinema. Four of his movies are in the top 100 of the

Wilder was “Not Tonight, Josephine”.

American

But, he found a new one more cunning

Alfred Hitchcock. In 1986, he

which can play with the ambiguity

obtained

showed in the movie. He chose Some Like It Hot. It referred to a Jerry’s line: “I suppose some like it hot. I prefer

Film

the

Achievement

Institute

as

AFI

Life

Award

for

amazing career. From a Jewish

these movies he obtained four Oscars: the best movie, the best director and the best adapted

screenplay.

He

directed Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch and in Some Like It Hot.

classical music”. It shows the allusion Austrian family, he spent his to Jazz but also to a sexual image under

childhood in Vienna. He decided

the sun of Florida. These words refer to

to be a journalist and made his

the whole movie, the cross dressing, attraction, gay marriage etc.

first

step

in

a

Viennese

newspaper with sport issues. In

ACTOR SECTION

1926, he settled in Berlin where he has to be a gigolo to survive. He wrote articles, novels but With his American comedies, also serialized novel which are he imposed his moralistic and famous. It is the moment of caricaturist style. He used to silent films. He often worked as talk about polemic issues as Negro

for

very

famous cross-dressing,

adultery,

scriptwriters. In 1930, he signed humiliation in company etc. with the Universal Film AG. He He died in 2001 after a came to US and started to write. He did not talk English so, at B ILLY

W IL D E R

( T HE

first, he has to translate his

DIRECTOR)

works. He quickly succeeded in He is a producer, director and

entering

in

Hollywood

and

pneumonia. He is still one of the

best

scriptwriter

and

director in the world. He always succeeded to show his universe.

For

him,

his

scriptwriter of film noirs but also signed with Paramount Pictures. European origin was an comedies. Born on June the 22nd In 1942, he wrote The Major important key in his movies of 1906 in Poland. He is one of and The Minor and in 1943, to make a difference with American movies. the most important figures in the Fives Graves to Cairo. Thanks

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M A R I LY N M O N R O E

(SUGAR KAN E

with her but Joe (or Mr Shell) photo. She left her job and

K O WA L C Z Y K )

gets her.

her husband and became fair.

Born with the name of Norma Jean Baker Mortenson the 1st of June of 1926 in Los Angeles, Marilyn Monroe is obviously the best actress in the fifties. Her iconic image is still spread across generations. With a father who didn't recognized her and a mentally hill mother, she spent her Marilyn

plays

Sugar

Kane Kowalczyk, she is the orchestra's singer. She is polish. She is the perfect actress to represent the stereotype of the 50th

women.

She

plays

a

beautiful blond ingenue woman. Sugar is a simple-minded person. She has been very disappointed by her love experience. She often finds liars and thieves. She dreamed of having success and meet a very rich man (with a yacht...). As every girl in her band she likes spirits too much and she must hide it. She has a nice relationship with Daphne (Jerry). Jerry would like more

childhood

in

children's

home. Throughout her life, she was afraid to be mad as her mother and her grandmother. In 1936,

Grace

mother's

McKee,

her

friend

was

best

officially her tutor. When she was sixteen she got married to James

Dougherty.

She

left

school and worked in the same company as her husband. She improved air-wings and checked parachute.

There,

she

was

spotted by a photographer to be a model. In 1944, she is a model for an American army campaign to

show

the

women’s

involvement in the 2nd world’s war. All coverage used her

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She also added a beauty spot with a pen. In 1946, she signed with the 20th Century Fox. She changed her name and became Marilyn Monroe. In 1947, she played for the first time in a movie in Dangerous

Years

and

Schudda Hoo! Schudda Hay! She continued to make movie but not very famous. She was the first actress to go back to university

in

1951.

She

studied literature and art. In 1952, she is the target of a scandal because she posed naked for a calendar. She said she had to pay her rent.

After some movies with mixed her. In 1962, for the 2nd time she people continue to love her reviews, she played in the movie got the price for best movie star and to talk about her. Niagara in 1953, which is a real of the world success. Some people said she but she was would have a beautiful future in too

drunk.

cinema. We must know she was Everyone was very tormented. She took lot of chocked and drugs, especially barbiturates to not

to

sleep. In 1953, she played in the embarrass her movie

How

to

Marry

a the ceremony

Millionaire and in Gentlemen was

not

Prefer Blondes. These movies broadcast. We contributed to her popularity. In 1959 she played in Some Like It Hot by Billy Wilder. The shooting

was

very

difficult

because she often arrived late and she couldn’t remember her line. Billy Wilder had to hide some part of her line in the set otherwise, they could redo fifty or sixty times. it was really hard to work with her especially for Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. At this moment, she was very addict to drugs, she had a psychologist and she already tried to commit suicide. She continued to play amazing role and give a glamorous image of

must she

know was

woman unhappy her

a

very in life:

different husbands, lot of failure, alcohol, drugs and she had lot of miscarriage. On august the 4th of

"Beneath the make-

1962, she makes an ended on

up and behind the

her life with drugs. She was the

smile I am just a girl

target of lot of gossips. As all iconic people, her death was

who wishes for the

mysterious, some people don’t

world.”

believe

that

she

committed

suicide. In any case, she was different she could capture the camera, the spectators. She had an uncommon charisma; In 2017

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Marilyn Monroe

to TONY CURTI S

(J O E /MR

S H E L L /J O S E P H I N E )

her with another way that he used to do when he is Joe.

change his Jewish name. He made his first movie with his

Born on august the 3rd of 1925 new name in 1950 in the with the name of Bernard movie Kansas Raiders. As Schwartz, he is an American every big star, he made actor and producer. He was very movies not very famous and popular during the 50s and the after he got a big role in the 60s. He reached this kind of movie

Manchester’73.

He

popularity thanks to movies as continued with The Vikings, Sweet Smell of Success (1957), Operation Petticoat or Some the Vikings (1958), Spartacus like it hot. This kind of role and especially Some like it hot. created Joe is a saxophonist. He tried to get money to live thanks to music. He is seductive and macho. With his best friend, they seem to be trying to survive during the prohibition. He has a very traditional vision of women. When

he

starts

to

play

Josephine, Joe changes her mind, her vision of women. That is very interesting to see the evolution of Joe. Then, we have Mr Shell, a very rich man with lot of charisma. He is totally invented but he is charming, beautiful, gentleman. He is the perfect husband for Sugar. He tries to attract

a

vision

of

his

As Marilyn, he got a mental ill personality as a Casanova. mother. She battered him. His Some people said he had an little brother was put in a mental affair with Marilyn but he institution and when Tony was said that “when he kissed her 13 his second brother was killed during the movie it was like in a car accident. Tony was very kissing Hitler”. affected

by

this

event. So, he didn’t have

a

happy

childhood.

He

became

rebellious

and was put in a reform

school.

There, he discovered theatre and cinema. He

arrived

in

Hollywood in 1948, very quickly he had

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So, we will never know the truth. attract her. He meets Osgood, a Lemmon

was

born

on

In 2002, he accepted to take the millionaire who falls in love February the 8th of 1925 in role of Osgood (the millionaire with Daphne. Daphne enters in Newton. After an ordinary who wants to get married to his game because he can give childhood, he enlisted in the Daphne) in a musical called her everything that she wants. army during the Second Sugar in Broadway which is a At the end, Sugar, Mr Shell, Worl War. When he came new version of Some Like It Hot. Daphne and Osgood are running back to the US, he quickly In 2010, he was 85 and died of a away because of the mafia. So, became

a

famous

actor

heart attack in his home in Jerry says to Osgood these specialised in comedy. He is Henderson. He never got Golden famous sentences:

especially famous for Some

Globe or Oscar nut everyone

Like

said he was a figure of the 50s

Daphne: « We can't get married at all

(JE RRY

– DAPHNE )

or

the

Oscars. One for the best

Daphne: « Well, in the first place, I'm

JACK LEMMON

Hot

Apartment. He gained two

» Osgood: « Why not? »

and 60s cinemas.

It

not a natural blonde! »

second role in 1956 for

Osgood: « Doesn't matter... »

Mister

Daphne: « I smoke. I smoke all the

second for the best actor in

time»

Roberts

and

the

1974 for Save the Tiger. He

Osgood: « I don't care. » Daphne: « I have a terrible past. For

is also well-known for his

three years now, I've been living with

duet with Walter Matthau

a saxophone player » Osgood: « I forgive you »

where

they

played

ten

Daphne: « I can never have children »

movies together. He had an

Osgood: « We can adopt some »

amazing career with other

Daphne: « You don't understand, Osgood, I'm a man! »

amazing prizes. He gave to

Osgood: « Well... nobody's perfect!”

Charlie

his

Honorary Academy Award

As his friend, Joe, Jerry is a macho and seductive man. When It is interesting to see the he becomes Daphne, he plays the change of the real personality role of an eccentric woman. He of Joe. When he plays Daphne, becomes the Sugar’s best friend he considers women and men even though he would like to

Chaplin

as

equals.

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Jack

for lifetime achievement in 1972. He died in 2001 in Los Angeles after a cancer.

CRITICS SECTION “the screenplay is audacious and so funny” Telerama (2016)

"Lipsticked, mascaraed and tilting at a precarious angle ... actor Lemmon digs out

most of the laughs in the script." Time (1959)

“Billy Wilder enters in deliberately in a china shop, to break everything that is very funny” L’humanité (1959)

As every movie, some people like and some not. Usually, people and critics really like the audacity of Billy Wilder in Some Like It Hot. There is not lot of difference in USA between the fifties and the naughtiest reviews. But, in France it is little bit different. In 50s some critics were more conservative and don’t understand the movie and they are often against this movie. In the noughties, minds have changed and people can understand what he wanted to say. It is a revolutionary movie.

“the bad taste and the worst clichés” Le monde (1959)

“Wanting to warm up too much the spectator, we end to break the “resistance” Liberation (1959)

“Some Like It Hot does cool off considerably now and again, but Mr. Wilder and his carefree clowns

keep it crackling and funny most of the time.”

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New york Times (2000)

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C R O S S - D R ES S I N G

According

enemies. If we look at little bit Through the cinema we can

ART

to

dictionaries, the cross-dressing is to

be

dressed

in

clothing

typically worn by members of the opposite sex. The society created clichés about the crossdressing and particularly about

more, we have lot of movies feel the social environment about cross-dressing in the XIX about

cross-dressing.

We

century especially after the 1st cannot deal with the crossand the 2nd World Wars, as I dressing in the 2000s movies was a male war Bride of as same as the 1950s movies. Howard Hawks in 1949 or In Some like It Hot, Joe and Psycho of Hitchcock in 1959.

Jerry become Josephine and Daphne. When

the transvestites. So, people

there

are

often have a pejorative idea about the transvestites. When we talk about the cross-dressing people used to think about homosexuality, vulgarity

and

extravagance, sometimes,

prostitution. However, it is not only that. In spite of the sexual orientation people can cross-

women they have to behave and In the 70s we started to really be as women. Joe and Jerry have in transsexual demand, but also to show their interested very traditional opinion about own identity, even if, there are personalities. It is not only a women and homosexuality. not homosexual. Each person has funny topic it is more serious. So, they have to behave on a masculine and feminine side to People start to talk about the contrary of their mind. identity trouble. Nowadays, in them. The director wanted to crossmovies it is a funny and a In cinema, the first and the dress Joe and Jerry...