No movie is that perfect.

Rating: 7/10 (13 November 2012)

Well nobody's perfect. Well, this Billy Wilder's remake of the French 1935's Fanfare d'Amour and the German 1951's Fanfaren der Lieb isn't that perfect. Full of rampant sexual innuendo, and silly gender-bender cross-dressing gags makes this movie ridiculous, but that will always be part of it's charm. I don't know how these men pass as women. A great example of a three act structure that straddles different genres with violence and comedy. The movie was all innocent fun, though it's always on the brink of disastrous double-entendre. In the midst of notorious gangland murders in 1929, Chicago. Two musicians, Joe (Tony Curtis) & Jerry (Jack Lemmon), witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre type murder. The desperate musicians have no choice, but to disguise themselves as women and join a all-girl band to escape the gang life, and hide out from pursing gangsters. Now in Miami, Joe falls for the lead singer of the band, the troubled Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe). He pursued her, by disguising himself as a millionaire to win her over, while Jerry is being courted by a real millionaire, Osgood Fielding III (Joe E. Brown), mid while the gangsters out there still looking for them. The cast was great in their roles. Tony Curtis is brilliant, and his Cary Grant voice was amazing. Jack Lemmon is demoniacally funny and more likely to taken for a woman than Tony Curtis. Marilyn Monroe is just Marilyn Monroe. I really doubt it's acting,e ven the opening scene with the boys has her drinking whiskey no less and her playing a dull blonde trying to get marry a millionaire. Not really role model material. Marilyn was hostile, and was marked by refusals to participate in filming and occasional outbursts of profanity. Visibly Monroe was obviously trashed out during the film. It really does show if you look closer and think about it. It's a surprise to find out that Marilyn Monroe was pregnant when filming this movie. You can tell in some scenes, it was a body double. Still, she's as beautiful as any film she does, but that's doesn't make it a great actress. Not many actors enjoyed filming with her, it was too high maintenance with very little acting to make up for it. Tony Curtis wasn't really into kissing her saying it was like 'Kissing Hitler'. Her singing was mediocre as well. Brown was great, and funny and his final line in the film is a master stroke. Wilder wrote many of the most wittiest one-liners on film in one line. That final line sum up the film so well. It's not the best movie, but nobody's perfect, so it's works for what it is. A fun, good, movie.