Editing Some Like It Hot (section)

===Filming===
[[File:Hotel Del Coronado Drone Picture Turf Lawn.jpg|thumb|[[Hotel del Coronado]] (2016)]]
[[File:Photo Director Billy Wilder and actress Marilyn Monroe during the filming of the 1959 movie Some Like It Hot 1959 - Touring Club Italiano 04 0906.jpg|thumb|Billy Wilder gives directions to Marilyn Monroe during the filming of a scene which took 47 takes]]
The film was made in [[California]] during the summer and autumn of 1958.<ref>Castle, Alison (Hrsg.): ''Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot''. Taschen, 2001, p. 24.</ref> [[American Film Institute|AFI]] reported the production dates between early August and November 12, 1958, at [[Samuel Goldwyn Studios]].<ref name="AFI"/> Many scenes were shot at the [[Hotel del Coronado]] in [[Coronado, California]], which appeared as the "Seminole Ritz Hotel" in Miami in the film, as it fit into the era of the 1920s and was near Hollywood. The Mirisch Company was the film's presenter, and producer [[Walter Mirisch]] employed several crew members from his home base, the [[Monogram Pictures Corporation|Allied Artists]] studio.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}

The film's difficult production has since become "legendary".{{sfn|Churchwell|2004|p=626}} Monroe demanded dozens of retakes, and did not remember her lines or act as directed—Curtis famously said that kissing her was "like kissing [[Hitler]]" due to the number of retakes.{{sfnm|1a1=Spoto|1y=2001|1pp=399–407|2a1=Churchwell|2y=2004|2p=262}} The line "It's me, Sugar" took 47 takes to get correct because Monroe kept getting the word order wrong, saying either "Sugar, it's me" or "It's Sugar, me". Curtis and Lemmon made bets during the filming on how many takes she would need to get it right.<ref>Jack Lemmon in: ''Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot''. Taschen, 2001, {{ISBN|3-8228-6056-5}}. p. 277</ref> Monroe privately likened the production to a sinking ship and commented on her co-stars and director saying {{nowrap|"[but]}} why should I worry, I have no phallic symbol to lose."{{sfnm|1a1=Banner|1y=2012|1p=327 on "sinking ship" and "phallic symbol"|2a1=Rose|2y=2014|2p=100 for full quote}} Many of the problems stemmed from her and Wilder—who also had a reputation for being difficult—disagreeing on how she should play the role.{{sfnm|1a1=Churchwell|1y=2004|1pp=262–266|2a1=Banner|2y=2012|2pp=325–327}} She angered him by asking to alter many of her scenes, which in turn made her stage fright worse, and it is suggested that she deliberately ruined several scenes to act them her way.{{sfnm|1a1=Churchwell|1y=2004|1pp=262–266|2a1=Banner|2y=2012|2pp=325–327}} Three days were scheduled for shooting the scene with Shell Jr. and Sugar at the beach, as Monroe had many complicated lines, but the scene was finished in only 20 minutes.<ref>[[Volker Schlöndorff|Schlöndorff, Volker]]: Billy Wilder in ''Billy Wilder speaks''. ''Some Like It Hot''. DVD, October 2006.</ref> Monroe's acting coach [[Paula Strasberg]] and Monroe's husband [[Arthur Miller]] both tried to influence the production, which Wilder and other crew members found annoying.<ref>Walter Mirisch in: ''Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot''. Taschen, 2001, {{ISBN|3-8228-6056-5}}</ref><ref>Tony Curtis in: ''Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot'', Taschen 2001 (2010), S. 286</ref>

Wilder spoke in 1959 about making another film with Monroe: "I have discussed this with my doctor and my psychiatrist and they tell me I'm too old and too rich to go through this again."<ref>{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5WVDRyRvy_4C&q=The+Making+of+Some+Like+It+Hot:+My+Memories+of+Marilyn+Monroe+and+the+Classic+American+Movie| title=The Making of Some Like It Hot:My Memories of Marilyn Monroe and the Classic American Movie| last=Curtis| first=Tony| date=September 17, 2009|publisher=Wiley| isbn=978-0470561195| access-date=24 February 2019|url-access=subscription }}</ref> But Wilder also admitted: "My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?"<ref>{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2rL9yP-6UwYC&q=Aunt+Minnie| title=Great Funny Quotes: Sweeten Your Life with Laughter| last=Young| first=David| publisher=Wind Runner Press| location=Round Rock, Texas| year= 2011| access-date=24 February 2019| page=194| isbn=978-1936179015}}</ref> He also stated that Monroe played her part wonderfully.<ref>Alison Castle (Hrsg.): ''Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot''. Taschen, 2001, S. 287.</ref> Years later, Wilder noted "I think there are more books on Marilyn Monroe than there are on World War 2, and there's a great similarity."<ref>Basinger, Jeanine & Wasson, Sam, ''Hollywood: The Oral History'', Harper, 2022, p. 393</ref>

The film's closing line, "Well, nobody's perfect", is ranked 78th on ''The Hollywood Reporter'' list of Hollywood's 100 Favorite Movie Lines, but it was never supposed to be in the final cut.  Diamond and Wilder put it in the script as a "placeholder" until they could come up with something better, but they never did.<ref>{{cite news| title=Hollywood's 100 Favorite Movie Quotes| url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/best-movie-quotes-hollywoods-top-867142| newspaper=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]| date=24 February 2016| access-date=24 February 2019| archive-date=February 25, 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190225161913/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/best-movie-quotes-hollywoods-top-867142| url-status=live}}</ref> Wilder's tombstone pays homage to the line by reading, "I'm a writer, but then, nobody's perfect". In 2000, ''[[The Guardian]]'' ranked the closing scene at No. 10 on their list of "The top 100 film moments".<ref name="Grdn2000">{{cite news |title=The top 10 film moments: The top 10 film moments as voted for by Observer readers |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/feb/06/top-10-film-moments-usual-suspects-psycho |access-date=7 March 2023 |work=The Guardian |date=6 February 2000 |archive-date=June 16, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180616013515/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/feb/06/top-10-film-moments-usual-suspects-psycho |url-status=live }}</ref>