Tony Curtis
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A Special Memoir for a Special Moment in Hollywood History...
Some Like It Hot occupies a unique place in American culture. This beloved classic showcases five comic geniuses: Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, I. A. L. Diamond, Billy Wilder, and Marilyn Monroe. It has been honored by the American Film Institute as the "Funniest Film of All Time". It has contributed quotes, styles, and stories to film lore. Yet the full story of its making has never been...
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Some Like It Hot occupies a unique place in American culture. This beloved classic showcases five comic geniuses: Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, I. A. L. Diamond, Billy Wilder, and Marilyn Monroe. It has been honored by the American Film Institute as the funniest film of all time. It has contributed quotes, styles, and stories to film lore. Yet the full story of its making has never been told—until now.
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The legendary actor chronicles his odyssey from hard-knock childhood as the son of immigrant parents to Hollywood success, detailing his days as a tinseltown playboy, the film industry during Hollywood's Golden Era, and his life as an artist at the age of eighty.
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MGM
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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A powerful film about a ruthless journalist and an unscrupulous press agent who'll do anything to achieve success, this fascinating story cuts deep and sends a chilling message. It's late at night in Times Square, and everything's buzzing with nervous energy. But press agent Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis) is oblivious to it all as he nervously waits for the early edition of The Globe. Whose career did gossip columnist J. J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster)...
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Paramount Pictures
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English
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's fascinating tale of studio politics in early Hollywood is breathtakingly adapted to the big screen by Elia Kazan and scriptwriter Harold Pinter. Robert De Niro heads a powerhouse cast as studio head Monroe Stahr, a thinly disguised Irving Thalberg character in command of his studio but haunted by a love lost to the past. Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jeanne Moreau, Theresa Russell, Anjelica Huston and Jack Nicholson contribute...
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Republic Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2001
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English
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The U.S.S. Sea Tiger is forced out to sea prematurely by any enemy air attack. The sub leaks, and limps along its path. Five stranded Army nurses board it and initiate their own renovations....and the sub ends up a blushing pink, making it a target for both Japanese and American forces.
10) Insignificance
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Criterion collection volume 566
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Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Four unnamed people who look and sound a lot like Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, and Joseph McCarthy converge in one New York City hotel room for a compelling, visually inventive adaptation of Terry Johnson's play. With a combination of whimsy and dread, director Nicolas Roeg creates a fun-house-mirror picture of cold war America that questions the nature of celebrity and plays on a society's simmering nuclear fears.
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Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Who was that lady?: "In this rambunctious comedy, David Wilson (Tony Curtis, 'Some Like it Hot') is an assistant professor caught by his wife, Ann (Janet Leigh, 'Psycho'), in a misunderstanding when a grateful student kisses David as Ann walks in the room. Ann is about to leave David, so David asks his friend, Michael (Dean Martin, 'Rio Bravo'), to help him get her back. Michael comes up with a story that David is an FBI agent and that the girl is...
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English
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A realistic look at life and love inside a stateside military hospital's psychiatric ward during World War II. The Oscar-nominated comedy-drama follows the affable Captain Newman as he uses both humor and compassion to reach patients whose wartime injuries plague their minds instead of their bodies.
17) The defiant ones
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MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
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English
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Two men escaping from a Southern work gang discover that they are bound together by an unbreakable iron chain.
18) Spartacus
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Criterion collection volume 105
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English
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Spartacus is the bold gladiator slave who leads a massive slave revolt against Imperial Rome in this epic true account of man's eternal struggle for freedom.
19) Some like it hot
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English
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Two unemployed musicians accidentally witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and flee to Miami disguised as female musicians in an all-girl band.
20) Some like it hot
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The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Two musicians disguise themselves as women and join an all-female band in order to evade the Mafia, since they witnessed the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Directed by Billy Wilder. On the National Film Registry.
