Tony Curtis saying kissing Marilyn was like 'kissing Hitler?'
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denis-38 — 13 years ago(May 20, 2012 07:29 AM)
Tony Curtis said a lot of things, most of which can be taken with a grain of salt. He did indeed say it, and had many unkind to say about MM for years after her death, until he decided he'd get more publicity by denying the remark and claiming her "loved" her, was her lover during the filming and to top it off, the baby she was so obviously pregnant with, was his!!
Monroe had known Tony since the early 1950's, and apparently liked him. Everybody looks comfortable and relaxed on all the location shots, on the beach, on the pier, in front of the hotel. She was shocked and hurt by the "Hitler" remark and even brought it up in her very last interview, referring to Tony as "some actor." She said, further: "If I have to do intimate love scenes with a person who really has these kind of negative feelings about me, then my fantasy can come into play. Out with him, in with my fantasy!"
By the way, Billy Wilder later said it was "quite obvious" that Tony was enjoying the scene. His tight white pants could not conceal that. -
denis-38 — 13 years ago(November 11, 2012 06:48 AM)
If he was "joking" why did he never say that during Monroe's lifetime, or for many years after? Why, indeed did he not assure MM that he was joking? She went to her grave with that remark hanging over her.
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bzydad-42-124629 — 13 years ago(August 05, 2012 02:59 PM)
I had read that she used steroid infused face cream that grew peach fuzz on her face,she was told to shave it but she refused because she said it made her face glow.Maybe that's why he made the comment,to much fuzz on the upper lip.
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bzydad-42-124629 — 13 years ago(August 05, 2012 04:12 PM)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/9141077/Marilyn-Monroe-The-sta r-with-marbles-in-her-bra.html
About a 1/4 of the way into the article,it was hormone cream not steroid cream that I stated before. -
denis-38 — 13 years ago(August 12, 2012 12:08 PM)
No. Marilyn always had that baby fine blonde peach fuzz on her face. You can see it it some of her earliest modeling shots. (on her cheeks, not her upper lip.) Nobody told her to shave it off. It could be covered by makeup. (Ginger Rogers also had it. As did Elizabeth Taylor, but Taylor's was black, soshe kinda did have to shave.) Eve Arnold, the photographer, suggested the fuzz captured the light in some unusual, flattering way. But MM was never on record talking about the hair on her face!
Curtis was reacting to the stress of working with MM, tho they'd all gotten along well during the location scenes. He meant it in a mean way, and never apologized to Marilyn. She even brought it up in her last interview with Life magazine in 1962. She had clearly been hurt by the remark. But did not refer to Curtis by name. She just said, "some actor" -
denis-38 — 13 years ago(December 14, 2012 04:19 AM)
Dear Bzy
Marilyn ALWAYS had that peach fuzz on her face, even as a young modelnot her upper lip, however. Nobody told her to shave, It could be covered by makeup onscreen. Gingers Rogers had a similar issue, as did Elizabeth Taylor. (Tho Taylor's fuzz was black, so it was removed periodically. Taylor's "mustache" is obvious in some of her later films.) -
denis-38 — 12 years ago(December 26, 2013 07:11 AM)
He DID say it! It was reported at the time and he NEVER denied it. Years later he did. Years after that, he admitted it but said "I was just joking." (Too bad he never told MM he was joking. She referenced the remark in her very last interview. Though she did not mention Curtis by name.)
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fanaticita — 9 years ago(February 02, 2017 02:07 PM)
Marilyn Monroe was a very disturbed, unhappy,insecure woman, and while acting seemed her only vent out of these issues, her life in general was pretty miserable. Hearing about her death in 1962 was the only time I ever saw my mom cry. She was a public health nurse and knew all about mental issues.
