00:00Tony Curtis worked with Cary Grant in Operation Petticoat, which was shot not long after Some
00:06Like It Hot, and as you just saw as Junior, Curtis did a pretty good impression of Grant's
00:11mid-Atlantic accent. That was exactly what he was going for, albeit exaggerated, as he said,
00:18to the point of caricature. The hardest part for both Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon was wearing
00:24high heels for long stretches of time to play Josephine and Daphne, though despite being in
00:30pain, Curtis said that Lemmon was easygoing and nice to everyone on set. Marilyn Monroe, however,
00:37was a different story. As Curtis noted, Monroe was absolutely perfect in the finished product,
00:43but she was a loose cannon on set, being incredibly insecure and overly reliant on her acting coach,
00:50Paula Strasberg. All right, let's take a break, and when we return, we'll continue our celebration
00:55of Tony Curtis on his 100th birthday by watching one of his best performances in a sharp satire from
01:021957, which Curtis produced along with Burt Lancaster. Next on TCM, sweet smell of success,
01:11then the Defiant Ones, then the Defiant Ones, and later, the Vikings. Explore a night of Tony Curtis on TCM
01:20Tonight.
