Some Like It Hot — The Funniest Film Ever Made: The Complete Book, Taschen’s tribute to Billy Wilder’s classic comedy, has been reissued to celebrate the publisher’s twenty-fifth anniversary. Some Like It Hot, starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon, is arguably the greatest comedy film ever made; its final line of dialogue — “nobody’s perfect!” — is one of the most famous moments in cinema.
The book includes an interview with Wilder, and was originally published shortly before his death. This new edition has a slightly smaller format, and comes with a DVD of the film. The original edition featured a reprint of Marilyn Monroe’s annotated script, which is missing from this new edition. It remains a comprehensive tribute to the film, though, with a complete reprint of the shooting script, publicity materials, media clippings, and a Wilder filmography.
Editor Alison Castle has also edited two Kubrick books for Taschen, The Stanley Kubrick Archives and Napoleon, both of which are equally lavish. Her collaborator on Some Like It Hot, Dan Auiler, is the author of Hitchcock’s Notebooks.
The book includes an interview with Wilder, and was originally published shortly before his death. This new edition has a slightly smaller format, and comes with a DVD of the film. The original edition featured a reprint of Marilyn Monroe’s annotated script, which is missing from this new edition. It remains a comprehensive tribute to the film, though, with a complete reprint of the shooting script, publicity materials, media clippings, and a Wilder filmography.
Editor Alison Castle has also edited two Kubrick books for Taschen, The Stanley Kubrick Archives and Napoleon, both of which are equally lavish. Her collaborator on Some Like It Hot, Dan Auiler, is the author of Hitchcock’s Notebooks.
