soldier to see what i had to do in that kissing in that kissing sequence she had so many opportunities to drift away. and i guess. you know which struggled so that way we were able to continue otherwise marilyn was really in bad shape i felt she would never make a movie again. she was always late we d sit around and wait and wait and we didn t get paid and sing we sang a lot and sing as we just saying a lot on a monday sheltering pounds and by the sea by the sea that s what we did we come every morning every hearse. the most significant thing of course is the whole marilyn and a thousand takes on things which. i was not
it was it was all down the was. is a day when she did show up on the set but she locked herself in her dressing and she wouldn t come out. so billy wilder had to find a way to get her out of her dressing room and that s when he came to me and said i m going to put the play back aren t you running wild there s the market for you know the lyrics i want you to sing to the playback. the playback was running for about a half a minute while i was singing to the playback marilyn heard that opened her dressing room door and slowly walked onto the set and stopped in front of billy wilder never said a word. and billy wilder looked at her and said let s go to work. because he
thing i know marilyn is in the movie the picture was finished that even before we started i knew the three of us then they got joey brown the four of us. but barely know the key to that movie was marley and when you see the movie he ll know it s mannerly. at a time when hollywood was banking on cinema scope and technicolor wonder had the audacity of opting for black and white and mixing up genders and john as. farce film and why are some like it hot is both as well as a musical comedy. and music is absolutely central to the film when she s singing i m through with love i think that song is heartbreaking
involved in except i use is. show me crazy because the famous some of the eighty seven takes she has a back to the camera if at any time billy can stops shooting and dub later jams nobody there thousand actually says and i do the time to do marilyn s voice so it was just a contest of wills between them and all of the sing about how terrible this was the both of them a little bit. i had no problem with when they re all men they re all had problems but one problem it has self she was. she was slightly discombobulated zero times she had great difficulties to concentrate. but i think. and it was like pulling teeth you know but by god you know when you went through it when you sat through that thing through that thirty forty fifty takes sometimes or to have a litmus. you had something they know something absolutely unique that cannot be
when marilyn took on the role she d already shot the seven year itch with wilder she d been working in new york attempting to break free of her typecast hollywood role and the dumped law and. she brought along her coach paul a strong wife of the actor studio director least rosberg. also on set was her husband playwright arthur miller who strapped for cash had talked her into doing the movie that marilyn hated the sexual innuendo and the heroines name sugar. it was the recipe for a nightmare shoot. and that got. arthur miller and.