Happy thanksgiving Wonderful to see younger people watching older classics like this. Most refuse to watch anything from the 60s or older. Marilyn was just wonderful
The "bar" at the start of the movie was a speakeasy. They often would require a password to get in. The shooting was a reference to the St. Valentine's Day Massacre that was a major mob shooting. Spats are the white cloth coverings that gentlemen put on their shoes.
My favorite film of 1959 is probably NORTH BY NORTHWEST which stars Cary Grant who Tony Curtis as Shell Jr. aka Josephine is deliberately imitating in this movie. My favorite Marilyn Monroe film is probably THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH by the same director although Marilyn's best performance is probably in THE MISFITS, all of these films which you should see. Wonderful reaction! ❤
Misfits is a very historic film, as well as showcasing Marilyn's acting. The male star was Clark Gable, who dominated American cinema for 30 years. This was Marilyn's last completed film before she died, and Gable died just a few weeks after finishing Misfits.
"How to marry a millionaire"!!! Marilyn is terrific in it! And Billy Wilder and Jack Lemmon also shine in "The apartment"! Don't miss them!!! Such great movies!!!
Fun! The grand hotel that is supposed to be in Florida is actually the Hotel del Coronado in Coronado, California, just offshore from San Diego. Also check out Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in The Great Race (1965), an epic slapstick comedy inspired by the 1908 New York to Paris automobile race. I've seen too many Marilyn Monroe films to say which is my favorite. Marilyn Monroe was sadly underrated as an actress, so also check her out in some dramas, including The Asphalt Jungle (1950), All About Eve (1950), Clash by Night (1952), River of No Return (1954), and The Misfits (1961). Also check out Tony Curtis in Sweet Smell of Success (1957), The Defiant Ones (1958), and Spartacus (1960), and Jack Lemmon in The Apartment (1960), Irma la Douce (1963), The Odd Couple (1968), and Glengarry Glen Ross (1992). And for more movie musicals from the fifties and sixties, start with Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), then check out some of these -- Brigadoon (1954), Anything Goes (1956), High Society (1956), West Side Story (1961), Mary Poppins (1964), My Fair Lady (1964), The Sound of Music (1965), The Jungle Book (1967), Hello, Dolly! (1969). YMMV.
Emma, you are perfectly lovely so don't bother much! This movie I saw originally in black n white with my dear Dad so many years ago. We laughed much. I don't find it as humorous now when I view it alone in 2024. Oh well, you made this reaction fun. Thanks and holiday blessings to all!
This is one of my favourite Billy Wilder films (and there are many, as he's one of my favourites). My other favourite film of his is the fantastic Sunset Boulevard, from 1950. I think you'd love it.
Also Marilyn Monroe studied acting from the same legendary "teacher" who also taught Marlon Brando and I think James Dean and quite a number of other well known highly lauded actors of the 50s and 60s and into the 70s. His name was Lee Strasberg and he ran one of the most prestigious and acclaimed acting schools ever and if you ever want to withess the EXCEPTION to George Bernard Shaw's adage "those who can, do; those who can't, teach" Lee Strasberg was the actor who portrayed Michael Corleone's one and only ever true threat, Hyman Roth, in 1974's The Godfather II and he was absolutely BRILLIANT.
All of the autobiographies of all the greats from the "golden era" of Hollywood are fascinating and HILARIOUS reads. The great British actor David Niven, who once "did time" as Errol Flynn's housemate and there's some stories, titled one of his autobiographies "Bring On the Empty Horses" which was a reference to the direction of the great Hungarian director Michael Curtiz to the "wranglers" during the filming of the 1936 classic The Charge of the Light Brigade just before shouting "action" to capture the heartbreaking aftermath of the most infamous cavalry charge in history. And when I was in 8th grade (I think) I read an autobiography by Mae West which was just as pornographic and HILARIOUS a read as you'd expect from the woman who as soon as she laid eyes on him on HER movie set of his first movie immediately bumped the not yet known Cary Grant up from his assigned out of focus background extra position to right up front and in full frame so her now infamous invitation to "come up and see me" line was delivered to the "prettiest" person on set that day and "a star was born".
Rum was the most popular drink at the time. The government had also poisoned some alcohol and let it be sold to try to discourage people from drinking. Marilyn in real life was a very very intelligent woman and the mistress of former U.S. President JFK. I really enjoyed your reaction as always. If you haven't reacted to the movie Singing in the Rain (1952) I'm sure you'll like it.
"While the government never directly poisoned drinking alcohol, it did take steps to ensure that toxic chemicals were included in industrial alcohols. Such chemicals were commonly converted into drinking alcohol during the Prohibition era, a reality of which officials were aware when approving the practice." (Fact check: It's true, U.S. government poisoned some alcohol during Prohibition, USA TODAY, Jun 30, 2020)
1950's movies suggestions: Singing in the Rain [i think you already saw that], High Noon, Rebel Without a Cause, Giant, East of Eden, Blackboard Jungle, any Elvis movie, Bridge Over River Kwai. Marilyn Monroe Movies: Niagara, Gentleman Prefer Blondes, Don't Bother to Knock , River of No Return, How to Marry a Millionaire, The Misfits, Bus Stop...a few others...
Hi Emma, it was great to see you enjoying this classic comedy so much. This was Tony Curtis (when portraying the Shell millionaire) using his imitation of Cary Grant`s voice. Ironically within a year, he was working with Cary Grant on The Comedy/War film (Operation Petticoat). This is described as a screwball comedy, I`ve found I enjoy the same types of comedies from the `30`s & `40`s.
Jack Lemmon was on the receiving end of two of the best closing lines in movie history. One was in this film ("Well, nobody's perfect!"). The other was in the movie "The Apartment" (1960), which was also directed by Billy Wilder. It would be great if you reacted to that movie, too. Marilyn Monroe could be hard to work with, especially on this movie. She'd show up late, not learn her lines, lock herself in her trailer. . . She had her own acting coach who would interfere with Billy Wilder's direction. Tony Curtis said that kissing her was like kissing Hitler, though sometime later he said he was only joking. Things got so bad that Billy Wilder didn't invite her to the wrap party. But somehow, through all the difficulties, she turned in a great performance in this film. The shooting in the garage was based on the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, which happened in Chicago on Valentine's Day in 1929 when seven members of the North Side Gang were murdered in a garage by members of Al Capone's gang. The bit about collecting shells has a basis in reality. The father of the founder of Shell Oil made a living collecting and selling seashells. The son named the company in honor of his father. Tony Curtis was imitating Cary Grant when he was being Shell Oil, , which made it extra funny when Jack Lemmon told him nobody talks like that. The bit about Sugar selling kisses for the milk fund also has a basis in reality. Marilyn Monroe gave her earnings from the premiere of The Prince and the Showgirl to a charity called The Milk Fund for Babies. The guy flipping a coin at 39:43 is a reference to the movie Scarface (1932), in which the gangster Rinaldo flipped a coin all the time. Rinaldo was played by George Raft, who played Spats in Some Like it Hot.
There are so *many* superb films from the 1950s, especially those made in France, in Italy, and in Japan. But one of my favorites made in the USA would be "Night of the Hunter" (1955). And if you're looking for another great Monroe movie, try "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (1953). It's a musical, and Marilyn's performance is legendary.
Emma. The white covering over the shoes are called spats. They protect the shoes from mud and dirt. They were also a part of men's fashion during the period. And the gangsters nickname.
This is probably my favorite Marilyn Monroe movie, but Bus Stop and The Misfits are close competitors. Other fantastic movies by the same director, Billy Wilder, are The Apartment, Sunset Boulevard and Stalag 17.
Yes, the cast is great, but a little shout out to Billy Wilder, one of the greatest Directors of all time. I, as a german, am especially proud of him. Because he (as a jew) fled the Nazis to america, but never had harsh feelings of his heritage, he always insisted that his name is pronounced in german (yes i know he was born in austria, but we are all the same sauce).
Marilyn is of course the best thing about this movie. I also love Let's Make Love about the theater, and The Prince and the Showgirl, Bust Stop, Clash By Night, The Misfits... way more than I love this Marilyn Monroe film. The outtakes of Something's Got to Give are amazing, an unfinished film. Her acting in the Prince and the Showgirl reminds me of the modern Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, and a bit of Rebel Wilson.
GREAT reaction beautiful Emma wonderful classic ...May i please suggest the movie called Burlesque with Cher and Christinia Aguilera if you have not seen it already ..
This movie was the third and final Academy Award for Best Costume win for the great Orry Kelly (Women He's Undressed) and it still remains a COMPLETE mystery to this day how he and Wilder and Marilyn managed to get her two (btw she was pregnant during the filming) see-through basically pasties and a feather boa gowns past the movie censors. I think I remember hearing or reading somewhere that Orry was only hired to do Marilyn's wardrobe but as soon as Jack Lemmon and Jamie Lee's Daddy, Tony Curtis, first saw Marilyn on set for the train boarding scene they both told Billy Wilder they were done with the movie and wouldn't appear in another frame until Orry Kelly had been assigned to do THEIR wardrobe as well and they were BOTH right because afterall like they say "the clothes make the man"
😎👍 You ought to react to some of Marilyn Monroe's other musicals, "Ladies Of The Chorus" (1948), "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (1953), "There's No Business Like Show Business" (1954) etc. 😉
You asked for our favorite movie of this period. Here's a list of old movies that are fabulous: "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951 NOT the 2008 remake), "Forbidden Planet," "It Happened One Night," "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," “The Man on the Flying Trapeze” (only 65 min.), "Miracle on 34th Street (1947 NOT the remake)," "North by Northwest," "Psycho," "Rear Window," "Rio Bravo," "Stalag 17," "Topper"
The Prohibition era, yes. A secret club or bar that served alcohol like in the beginning where called Speakeasy. The intro - Amazing, and pretty hot at the same time ;) =)
"I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a Woman in it. I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best." -Marilyn
Hello, Emma. BUS STOP, GENTLEMAN PREFER BLONDES, RIVER OF NO RETURN, HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE, and THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH are waiting for you to review. I really love how excited you are to see Marilyn Monroe when she is onscreen. There was a movie she made in 1952 called DON'T BOTHER TO KNOCK, which is one of my favorites. It was promoted to be her first as a lead in a movie. It is underrated in her catalog. Could you give a look? Keep going and enjoy
The scene depicted in the garage was an actual event, *THE ST VALENTINE'S DAY MASSACRE.* When you're doing nothing for Valentine's Day, watch the movie.
This is the tail end of the Golden Age of Hollywood which usually refers to the studio era when the studios owned the actors. Counting this in the era it is 30 or more years of movies. But sticking with the time around this movie, Billy Wilder was the director here and two years earlier he directed Marilyn in The Seven Year Itch, while not as good as this one it is a funny movie and it has Marilyn's two most iconic images, the skirt, and her looking out the window. The following year Wilder directed Jack Lemmon in an even better movie, The Apartment. Probably not as funny as this one, but funny enough and with truer emotions than this one has. Shirlie MacLaine is utterly charming. And the year before this movie, I don't know who directed it, but Tony Curtis was in Operation Petticoat, a funny war adjacent movie. The biggest link to this movie is that Operation Petticoat stared Cary Grant, and Curtis' billionaire character is based on Cary Grant, that is how Curtis learned to imitate him.
In some ways the movie is kind of tragic with regard to Marilyn Monroe, she is hilarious here but I think this was one of the first movies that was significantly impacted by the issues with drugs, particularly sleeping pills, that would kill her a few years later. If my memory serves, it wasn't uncommon to take 20-30 takes for her to get a scene right, which pretty much everyone else in the movie found to be anything from stressful to infuriating (in particular, if memory services, Tony Curtis detested working with her on this movie). She was incredibly talented, and I believe also quite smart, but the studios and producers and everyone pushed her more and more into ditzy blonde rolls and all the pressures of fame and stardom and her 'image' lead to abuse of sleeping pills and her untimely death.
You asked for the most popular drinks at that time. I don't really know. But what I know is that the limited supply and sometimes bad quality alcohol made people more creative, just to mix something palatable. So a lot of cocktails that still are popular today was invented during the prohibition during the 20s and early 30s. I think White Lady and French 75 were both invented in the 20s. But rum smuggled from the Caribbean could be the most popular prohibition drink, since it was very cheap to buy there.
"Nobody's perfect." The best line in the movie. 😂
Oh Yeah!!!! I love it too!!!
@@Emma_Reactions Some call it the perfect last line...If not, it's darn close!
Of all his long, storied career, this may be Jack Lemmon's funniest performance.
The voice of "Shell Oil Junior " ( Tony Curtis) is an imitation of Cary Grant.
Sugar's father was a conductor , not of music but of the railroad.
Jamie Lee Curtis is his daughter.
That intro! What an amazing voice you have!
Wow, thank you!
that was such a CUTE opening song! 😍 REALLY ENJOYED your reaction! 👍☺
Happy thanksgiving
Wonderful to see younger people watching older classics like this. Most refuse to watch anything from the 60s or older.
Marilyn was just wonderful
The "bar" at the start of the movie was a speakeasy. They often would require a password to get in. The shooting was a reference to the St. Valentine's Day Massacre that was a major mob shooting. Spats are the white cloth coverings that gentlemen put on their shoes.
She mentioned it was "restricted", she was referring to Prohibition.
My favorite film of 1959 is probably NORTH BY NORTHWEST which stars Cary Grant who Tony Curtis as Shell Jr. aka Josephine is deliberately imitating in this movie. My favorite Marilyn Monroe film is probably THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH by the same director although Marilyn's best performance is probably in THE MISFITS, all of these films which you should see. Wonderful reaction! ❤
Misfits is a very historic film, as well as showcasing Marilyn's acting. The male star was Clark Gable, who dominated American cinema for 30 years. This was Marilyn's last completed film before she died, and Gable died just a few weeks after finishing Misfits.
@@flarrfan Marilyn is great in the Misfits which we should note is a drama not a comedy.
Love that movie too
"How to marry a millionaire"!!! Marilyn is terrific in it!
And Billy Wilder and Jack Lemmon also shine in "The apartment"! Don't miss them!!! Such great movies!!!
The Apt. features a young Shirley MacLaine.
MM (Marilyn Monroe) and BB (Brigitte Bardot) are the two Sirens that called many a'sailor crash upon the shoals.
the garage murders were really the St Valentine's Day Massacre
Cosa Nostra
Fun! The grand hotel that is supposed to be in Florida is actually the Hotel del Coronado in Coronado, California, just offshore from San Diego. Also check out Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in The Great Race (1965), an epic slapstick comedy inspired by the 1908 New York to Paris automobile race. I've seen too many Marilyn Monroe films to say which is my favorite. Marilyn Monroe was sadly underrated as an actress, so also check her out in some dramas, including The Asphalt Jungle (1950), All About Eve (1950), Clash by Night (1952), River of No Return (1954), and The Misfits (1961). Also check out Tony Curtis in Sweet Smell of Success (1957), The Defiant Ones (1958), and Spartacus (1960), and Jack Lemmon in The Apartment (1960), Irma la Douce (1963), The Odd Couple (1968), and Glengarry Glen Ross (1992). And for more movie musicals from the fifties and sixties, start with Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), then check out some of these -- Brigadoon (1954), Anything Goes (1956), High Society (1956), West Side Story (1961), Mary Poppins (1964), My Fair Lady (1964), The Sound of Music (1965), The Jungle Book (1967), Hello, Dolly! (1969). YMMV.
The hotel is still there, just a little more developed now.
This is Marilyn’s best movie! Those dresses coming and going!😂
Emma, you are perfectly lovely so don't bother much! This movie I saw originally in black n white with my dear Dad so many years ago. We laughed much. I don't find it as humorous now when I view it alone in 2024. Oh well, you made this reaction fun. Thanks and holiday blessings to all!
This is one of my favourite Billy Wilder films (and there are many, as he's one of my favourites). My other favourite film of his is the fantastic Sunset Boulevard, from 1950. I think you'd love it.
Marilyn, the ultimate beauty 😍
Such a delightful reaction!
If you like Marilyn ,You'll like her best acting role in the Movie " Bus Stop "
My Favourite Marilyn film is "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." A great musical of this period is "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers."
Seven Year Itch is ny favorite Monroe movie
The shoot-out at the garage was based on an actual event known as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
Also Marilyn Monroe studied acting from the same legendary "teacher" who also taught Marlon Brando and I think James Dean and quite a number of other well known highly lauded actors of the 50s and 60s and into the 70s. His name was Lee Strasberg and he ran one of the most prestigious and acclaimed acting schools ever and if you ever want to withess the EXCEPTION to George Bernard Shaw's adage "those who can, do; those who can't, teach" Lee Strasberg was the actor who portrayed Michael Corleone's one and only ever true threat, Hyman Roth, in 1974's The Godfather II and he was absolutely BRILLIANT.
Ahh, marvelous Marilyn.
This is the best Movie of Billy Wilder. But his Career goes from the30s till the 80s. One Movie i like is ``One,Two,Tree´´.
Greetings from Austria.😊😊😊
Definitely Wilder's best comedy...I think Sunset Blvd. and The Apartment (his only best picture Oscar) are better.
Omg love your reaction, please react to more Marilyn movies, like Niagara, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Seven Year Itch😍
Wilder's autobiography makes fascinating reading.
All of the autobiographies of all the greats from the "golden era" of Hollywood are fascinating and HILARIOUS reads. The great British actor David Niven, who once "did time" as Errol Flynn's housemate and there's some stories, titled one of his autobiographies "Bring On the Empty Horses" which was a reference to the direction of the great Hungarian director Michael Curtiz to the "wranglers" during the filming of the 1936 classic The Charge of the Light Brigade just before shouting "action" to capture the heartbreaking aftermath of the most infamous cavalry charge in history. And when I was in 8th grade (I think) I read an autobiography by Mae West which was just as pornographic and HILARIOUS a read as you'd expect from the woman who as soon as she laid eyes on him on HER movie set of his first movie immediately bumped the not yet known Cary Grant up from his assigned out of focus background extra position to right up front and in full frame so her now infamous invitation to "come up and see me" line was delivered to the "prettiest" person on set that day and "a star was born".
@@davidrichards6509 So true. Read all those. Curtiz's is especially interesting.
I love these classic movies.
Emma, you have a beautiful voice. 😊
Emma, you have a beautiful voice
Classic hit movie!!!!! 🍿 Sooooooo good!!!!!!!👍🏾 🎊 🎊 🎊 🎉 🎊 🎉😂😂😂
The beautiful and kindhearted Emma returns!
Rum was the most popular drink at the time. The government had also poisoned some alcohol and let it be sold to try to discourage people from drinking. Marilyn in real life was a very very intelligent woman and the mistress of former U.S. President JFK. I really enjoyed your reaction as always. If you haven't reacted to the movie Singing in the Rain (1952) I'm sure you'll like it.
"While the government never directly poisoned drinking alcohol, it did take steps to ensure that toxic chemicals were included in industrial alcohols. Such chemicals were commonly converted into drinking alcohol during the Prohibition era, a reality of which officials were aware when approving the practice." (Fact check: It's true, U.S. government poisoned some alcohol during Prohibition, USA TODAY, Jun 30, 2020)
1950's movies suggestions: Singing in the Rain [i think you already saw that], High Noon, Rebel Without a Cause, Giant, East of Eden, Blackboard Jungle, any Elvis movie, Bridge Over River Kwai. Marilyn Monroe Movies: Niagara, Gentleman Prefer Blondes, Don't Bother to Knock , River of No Return, How to Marry a Millionaire, The Misfits, Bus Stop...a few others...
Hi Emma, it was great to see you enjoying this classic comedy so much. This was Tony Curtis (when portraying the Shell millionaire) using his imitation of Cary Grant`s voice. Ironically within a year, he was working with Cary Grant on The Comedy/War film (Operation Petticoat). This is described as a screwball comedy, I`ve found I enjoy the same types of comedies from the `30`s & `40`s.
IMO his is the best movie ever made. Entertaining will no holds barred. Thx for reacting to it
😘 My Pleasure!
Jack Lemmon was on the receiving end of two of the best closing lines in movie history. One was in this film ("Well, nobody's perfect!"). The other was in the movie "The Apartment" (1960), which was also directed by Billy Wilder. It would be great if you reacted to that movie, too.
Marilyn Monroe could be hard to work with, especially on this movie. She'd show up late, not learn her lines, lock herself in her trailer. . . She had her own acting coach who would interfere with Billy Wilder's direction. Tony Curtis said that kissing her was like kissing Hitler, though sometime later he said he was only joking. Things got so bad that Billy Wilder didn't invite her to the wrap party. But somehow, through all the difficulties, she turned in a great performance in this film.
The shooting in the garage was based on the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, which happened in Chicago on Valentine's Day in 1929 when seven members of the North Side Gang were murdered in a garage by members of Al Capone's gang.
The bit about collecting shells has a basis in reality. The father of the founder of Shell Oil made a living collecting and selling seashells. The son named the company in honor of his father.
Tony Curtis was imitating Cary Grant when he was being Shell Oil, , which made it extra funny when Jack Lemmon told him nobody talks like that.
The bit about Sugar selling kisses for the milk fund also has a basis in reality. Marilyn Monroe gave her earnings from the premiere of The Prince and the Showgirl to a charity called The Milk Fund for Babies.
The guy flipping a coin at 39:43 is a reference to the movie Scarface (1932), in which the gangster Rinaldo flipped a coin all the time. Rinaldo was played by George Raft, who played Spats in Some Like it Hot.
Classic Marylin Monroe movies.
There are so *many* superb films from the 1950s, especially those made in France, in Italy, and in Japan. But one of my favorites made in the USA would be "Night of the Hunter" (1955). And if you're looking for another great Monroe movie, try "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (1953). It's a musical, and Marilyn's performance is legendary.
Emma.
The white covering over the shoes are called spats. They protect the shoes from mud and dirt. They were also a part of men's fashion during the period. And the gangsters nickname.
This is probably my favorite Marilyn Monroe movie, but Bus Stop and The Misfits are close competitors. Other fantastic movies by the same director, Billy Wilder, are The Apartment, Sunset Boulevard and Stalag 17.
Great movie!!!!!!🍿
wow wow i lovve it emma
Yes, the cast is great, but a little shout out to Billy Wilder, one of the greatest Directors of all time. I, as a german, am especially proud of him. Because he (as a jew) fled the Nazis to america, but never had harsh feelings of his heritage, he always insisted that his name is pronounced in german (yes i know he was born in austria, but we are all the same sauce).
i have a similar pic of norma jean is her real name Marlyin is her stage name
Marilyn is of course the best thing about this movie.
I also love Let's Make Love about the theater, and The Prince and the Showgirl, Bust Stop, Clash By Night, The Misfits... way more than I love this Marilyn Monroe film.
The outtakes of Something's Got to Give are amazing, an unfinished film.
Her acting in the Prince and the Showgirl reminds me of the modern Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, and a bit of Rebel Wilson.
GREAT reaction beautiful Emma wonderful classic ...May i please suggest the movie called Burlesque with Cher and Christinia Aguilera if you have not seen it already ..
This movie was the third and final Academy Award for Best Costume win for the great Orry Kelly (Women He's Undressed) and it still remains a COMPLETE mystery to this day how he and Wilder and Marilyn managed to get her two (btw she was pregnant during the filming) see-through basically pasties and a feather boa gowns past the movie censors. I think I remember hearing or reading somewhere that Orry was only hired to do Marilyn's wardrobe but as soon as Jack Lemmon and Jamie Lee's Daddy, Tony Curtis, first saw Marilyn on set for the train boarding scene they both told Billy Wilder they were done with the movie and wouldn't appear in another frame until Orry Kelly had been assigned to do THEIR wardrobe as well and they were BOTH right because afterall like they say "the clothes make the man"
Excellent reaction, Emma. I really hope you'll watch more classics like this. Happy holidays 🌟🎄
😎👍 You ought to react to some of Marilyn Monroe's other musicals, "Ladies Of The Chorus" (1948), "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (1953), "There's No Business Like Show Business" (1954) etc. 😉
Check out The Apartment with Jack Lemmon. Great reaction.
Tops like this will zoom you straight to the "top of YT"!
Spats Columbia is wearing white shoe covers called spats they were popular back then that's why they call him spats
You asked for our favorite movie of this period. Here's a list of old movies that are fabulous:
"The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951 NOT the 2008 remake),
"Forbidden Planet,"
"It Happened One Night,"
"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,"
“The Man on the Flying Trapeze” (only 65 min.),
"Miracle on 34th Street (1947 NOT the remake),"
"North by Northwest,"
"Psycho,"
"Rear Window,"
"Rio Bravo,"
"Stalag 17,"
"Topper"
I'm 36 and this is one of my favourite movies. Please Enjoy it. You also have a lovely singing voice.
Happy thanksgiving emma and kids
Good times
Your singing before the movie gave me goosebumps. Fantastic!
Another Billy Wilder black and white comedy is One Two Three.
Great intro! 😘
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great comedy!
Best last line ever. Ever.
The Prohibition era, yes. A secret club or bar that served alcohol like in the beginning where called Speakeasy.
The intro - Amazing, and pretty hot at the same time ;) =)
Friends of Italian Opera
"I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a Woman in it. I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best." -Marilyn
😊🤩🥰✨🎶
My favorite Marilyn movie is Seven-Year Itch
You may enjoy Marilyn's talent as an actor even more in the film "Niagara".
Little Bonaparte only died a couple of years ago. He was 102!
Tony Curtis shared his frustrations working with Monroe on Some Like It Hot due to her chronic lateness.
Harvey starring James Steward or Arsenic and Old Lace starring Gary Grant
Watching you appreciate (and crush on) MM was very satisfying! I suggest "The 7 year itch." It has the most iconic Marilyn scene.
The Florida scenes were filmed in San Diego so Marilyn Monroe could be close to her analyst. The hotel is still standing.
Watch the musical comedy Gentlemen Prefer Blondes with Marilyn and Jane Russell.
It might even turn out to be a SURPRISE party lol
Most folks don't notice that the saxaphone is a major character in this film.
You're a beautiful woman in any era.
Emma Awesome Video Today!!🔥🐐🐐💎
In my opinion, the best last line in a movie. 😊
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Please react to Blonde 2022. It is amazing biography movie to Marilyn Monroe. Ana de Armas is perfect in this movie.
A good documentary about the real Marilyn is called *"Love, Marilyn"*
Hello, Emma.
BUS STOP,
GENTLEMAN PREFER BLONDES,
RIVER OF NO RETURN,
HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE, and
THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH are waiting for you to review. I really love how excited you are to see Marilyn Monroe when she is onscreen. There was a movie she made in 1952 called DON'T BOTHER TO KNOCK, which is one of my favorites. It was promoted to be her first as a lead in a movie. It is underrated in her catalog. Could you give a look?
Keep going and enjoy
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The scene depicted in the garage was an actual event, *THE ST VALENTINE'S DAY MASSACRE.* When you're doing nothing for Valentine's Day, watch the movie.
Movie reaction recommendation: Empire of the Sun. Directed by Stevon Spielberg.
I love this movie and your réaction.
I Hope you will react soon to Bring up Baby and to Victor Victoria with Julie Andrews.
tony Curtus is not speaking with an accent he is doing an impression of Cary grant
Based on the icon for this, I was afraid that you might be watching the colourized version. Thank goodness you stuck with the original black & white.
There’s a colourized version? I didn’t know that (not that I’d watch it).
That is a real hotel on the beach, but it's not in Florida. It's the Hotel del Coronado, in San Diego.
WOW!!
I've been there. It looks the same. I didn't stay, I just went in the lobby and walked on the beach.
Tony Curtis=Jamie Lee Curtis father
1920s men drank whiskey women liked Gin
You could watch "The Seven Year Itch" with Marilyn Monroe. It's very funny and she's fantasstic in that :)
Same director as "Some Like It Hot"
St Valentine's Day Massacre.
Not that old, but Jack Lemmon with Walter Matthau in "The Odd Couple" is fun, roommates with one a neat freak, and one the exact opposite.
This is the tail end of the Golden Age of Hollywood which usually refers to the studio era when the studios owned the actors. Counting this in the era it is 30 or more years of movies. But sticking with the time around this movie, Billy Wilder was the director here and two years earlier he directed Marilyn in The Seven Year Itch, while not as good as this one it is a funny movie and it has Marilyn's two most iconic images, the skirt, and her looking out the window. The following year Wilder directed Jack Lemmon in an even better movie, The Apartment. Probably not as funny as this one, but funny enough and with truer emotions than this one has. Shirlie MacLaine is utterly charming. And the year before this movie, I don't know who directed it, but Tony Curtis was in Operation Petticoat, a funny war adjacent movie. The biggest link to this movie is that Operation Petticoat stared Cary Grant, and Curtis' billionaire character is based on Cary Grant, that is how Curtis learned to imitate him.
Emma sings and looks like Marilyn Monroe.🤩
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In some ways the movie is kind of tragic with regard to Marilyn Monroe, she is hilarious here but I think this was one of the first movies that was significantly impacted by the issues with drugs, particularly sleeping pills, that would kill her a few years later. If my memory serves, it wasn't uncommon to take 20-30 takes for her to get a scene right, which pretty much everyone else in the movie found to be anything from stressful to infuriating (in particular, if memory services, Tony Curtis detested working with her on this movie). She was incredibly talented, and I believe also quite smart, but the studios and producers and everyone pushed her more and more into ditzy blonde rolls and all the pressures of fame and stardom and her 'image' lead to abuse of sleeping pills and her untimely death.
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You asked for the most popular drinks at that time. I don't really know.
But what I know is that the limited supply and sometimes bad quality alcohol made people more creative, just to mix something palatable. So a lot of cocktails that still are popular today was invented during the prohibition during the 20s and early 30s.
I think White Lady and French 75 were both invented in the 20s.
But rum smuggled from the Caribbean could be the most popular prohibition drink, since it was very cheap to buy there.
Bathtub gin started during the prohibition era cheap and homemade.
Hard to believe that in 3 years or so Marylin would be gone at age 36
Oh Yeah, It's sad!
Fun Fact Tony Curtis is Jamie Lee Curtis's Father
Good movie at the time when the average woman was Marilyn and not considered fat. Today doctors would call her fat. She was curvy.
Marilyn was a firecracker