Of Marilyn Monroe's Personal Effects (And Their Effects)
Apparently I missed the Vanity Fair issue on the newly cataloged personal effects of Marilyn Monroe. Or maybe I'm just evolving into a better person with enough will power to resist the further torture of Monroe.
At the risk of regression, I have to point out this gem of a quote from Marilyn on the mutual non-love affair between herself & Tony Curtis on (and likely off) the set of Some Like It Hot.
In a letter to a friend she wrote:
The fact that Marilyn owned a child's recording of Walt Disney's Snow White is sweet...
I'm trying to resist all urges to comment on how Monroe had too many dwarfs in her life... How she was not only both Madonna & Whore, but both the Sweet Princess and the Evil Queen, poisoning herself into slumbers that only the kiss of true love could wake her from...
Oh crap. Look what I've just done.
At the risk of regression, I have to point out this gem of a quote from Marilyn on the mutual non-love affair between herself & Tony Curtis on (and likely off) the set of Some Like It Hot.
In a letter to a friend she wrote:
"There is only one way he could comment on my sexuality and I'm afraid he's never had the opportunity."Aces.
The fact that Marilyn owned a child's recording of Walt Disney's Snow White is sweet...
I'm trying to resist all urges to comment on how Monroe had too many dwarfs in her life... How she was not only both Madonna & Whore, but both the Sweet Princess and the Evil Queen, poisoning herself into slumbers that only the kiss of true love could wake her from...
Oh crap. Look what I've just done.
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Tony is promoting a memoir and "comes clean" about the old - apparently false - at least conflicted story about Curtis dipising Monroe - cut-n-paste the text for the weblink
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2008/10/03/2008-10-03_hot_marilyn_monroe_kiss_was_no_drag_tony.html
'Hot' Marilyn Monroe kiss was no drag, Tony Curtis concedes
Updated Friday, October 3rd 2008, 10:14 AM
Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe in 1959's 'Some Like It Hot.' AP
Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe in 1959's 'Some Like It Hot.'
Tony Curtis still regrets his flippant crack about how kissing Marilyn Monroe in "Some Like It Hot" was "like kissing Hitler." In fact, he now reveals, he was extremely turned on.
RELATED: PHOTOS OF NUDE MARILYN MONROE
Start with Marilyn wearing a see-through dress and removing the cloth that was supposed to hide her nipples. "When we kissed, I was on the receiving end of her tongue, and of her grinding," Curtis writes in his long-awaited memoir, "American Prince." "I [was aroused] all through that scene … and when [director Billy Wilder] yelled ‘Cut!,' she pushed herself off me and gave me a big, satisfied smile."
Curtis had actually been carrying a torch for Marilyn since they had a brief affair in their early days in Hollywood. Back then, he held off on bedding the ticking sex bomb because he sensed her concealed sadness. When he finally did undo her bra, he recalls in November's Vanity Fair excerpt, "her breasts were every teenage boy's fantasy. … It was truly unforgettable."
Curtis also admits that "after years of putting up with guys coming on to me," he felt nervous about dressing in drag for "Some Like It Hot." And while co-star Jack Lemmon slipped easily into his high heels, Wilder had originally wanted to cast Frank Sinatra for the part. The trouble, Wilder told Curtis, was that "[Frank] will have to dress up as a woman every day, and I just can't see Frank doing that.”
Very poetically put, Ron :)
Anonymous, if you read Monroe's line ("There is only one way he could comment on my sexuality and I'm afraid he's never had the opportunity.") you can see that his dislike/awkwardness could very well have been identified by her. I've always assumed Curtis' statement was of one who doth protest too much; likely Marilyn would have recognized it as well. ;)
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