Jan 5 movie: Some Like It Hot. I don't usually think of Some Like It Hot as a screwball comedy because it's a bit late for that genre, but it's one of the funniest movies I've ever seen, and it's got the zany humor based on gender roles down pat. If my movie list was a retrospective of the great screwball comedies (which sometimes I feel like it is), Some Like It Hot definitely belongs on the list.
I can't recommend this movie highly enough. Curtis and Lemmon are hysterical (check out Curtis' imitation of Cary Grant), Marilyn Monroe is a vision (including one gown which, from a distance, appears to be only a skirt), and Joe E. Brown gets the best closing line of any movie ever (no I'm not going to say what it is! You'll just have to see for yourself).
(I saw an interview once with Tony Curtis where he confessed that whenever he didn't know what to do as Josephine, he would purse his lips. It's totally true! He spends half the movie that way.)
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i caught a lot of this too. that dress she's got on is too much. it's j-lo material! i don't see how she could have been wearing the usual "support garments" of the time, either upper or lower.
J-Lo *wishes* she looked that good. Every time I see that scene in the nightclub, I'm like "oh my god, Marilyn's naked!" She looks like she's wearing a skirt, some sequins glued to her torso, and that's it.
and the great thing is-- marilyn is clearly at least a size 14 if not more like an 18 in that film. i need to take girl lessons from marilyn!
The way I heard it was that using modern dress sizes, Marilyn's size ranged from 8 to 12. Which is still large compared to the skeletons with boobs we see in the movies today. Snopes.com has a page on this with her measurements: http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/mmdress.htm
Not to disagree with your point that Marilyn is a great role model for showing off one's curves.
i could have sworn i once read that she was in the size 18 range for parts of her career... but i don't recall where i read that.
ok, now i've actually read the page you referenced. nevermind :)