Tony Curtis revealed in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that Frank Sinatra was also considered for the role of Jerry in "Some Like it Hot":
"Billy Wilder told me he wanted to get Frank Sinatra, and Mitzi Gaynor for the girl. Then about a week later Billy told me he wasn't going to use Frank. He said Frank would only be trouble. And he said he wanted to get Marilyn instead of Mitzi, even though everybody was warning Billy that Marilyn was going to be a lot of trouble too. He didn't care."
Wilder's choice to cast Monroe was risky and did not come without its challenges. "There was nothing laid back or amusing about Marilyn on that movie," Curtis recalled. "She was drinking a lot on the set." Luckily, Lemmon put her at ease. "He saw Marilyn for what she was, unlike the persona," his son explained to Fox. The actor "easily took to everybody," and the troubled starlet was no exception.
Lemmon would also go on to have a great friendship with Wilder and collaborate on several other films, including "The Apartment." "We've become very close friends," Lemmon said of the director in "Portrait of a 60% Perfect Man: Billy Wilder" (via Filmagicians). "In all those years ... over twenty years now, I've never spent thirty seconds that were dull [with Wilder]," the actor declared.
Thanks to Lemmon's agreeable nature and outstanding comedic talents, his artistic relationship with Wilder produced some of the most iconic films in the history of cinema.
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