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Best Costume Design BlackandWhite | 1960
Best Actress Comedy or Musical | 1960 | Marilyn
Best Actor Comedy or Musical | 1960 | Jack
Best Motion Picture Comedy | 1960
Best Foreign Actor | 1960 | Jack
Top Ten Films | 1959
Motion Picture | 2002
2009 | Billy
2000 | Billy
Best Written American Comedy | 1960 | I. A. L.
Best Actress | 1959 | Marilyn
Best Feature Film | 1959 | Billy
Best Director | 1960 | Billy
Best Writing Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium | 1960 | I. A. L.
Best Cinematography BlackandWhite | 1960
Best Actor in a Leading Role | 1960 | Jack
Best Art DirectionSet Decoration BlackandWhite | 1960
Best Film from any Source | 1960 | Billy
Best Soundtrack Album Original Cast Motion Picture or Television | 1959
1959 | Billy
Top Female Comedy Performance | 1960 | Marilyn
Top Comedy | 1960
Top Male Comedy Performance | 1960 | Jack
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | 1960 | Billy
Best Actor International | 1960 | Tony
Best Film | 1959 | Billy
Best Actor | 1959 | Jack
Budget 2,883,848 USD
Box Office Collection 25,000,000 USD
Jack Lemmon wrote that the first sneak preview had a bad reaction with many audience walkouts. Many studio personnel and agents offered advice to Billy Wilder on what scenes to reshoot, add and cut. Lemmon asked Wilder what he was going to do. Wilder responded: "Why, nothing. This is a very funny movie and I believe in it just as it is. Maybe this is the wrong neighborhood in which to have shown it. At any rate, I don't panic over one preview. It's a hell of a movie." Wilder held the next preview in the Westwood section of Los Angeles, and the audience stood up and cheered.
Years after the film's release, a movie reviewer asked Tony Curtis why his "Josephine" was so much more feminine than Jack Lemmon's "Daphne." Curtis explained he was so scared to be playing a woman (or a man pretending to be one) that his tightly wound body language could be read as demure and shy, traditionally feminine traits, whereas Lemmon, who was completely unbothered, and "ran out of his dressing room screaming like the Queen of the May," kept much more of his masculine body language.
Marilyn Monroe required 47 takes to get "It's me, Sugar" correct, instead saying either "Sugar, it's me" or "It's Sugar, me." After take 30, Billy Wilder had the line written on a blackboard. Another scene required Monroe to rummage through some drawers and say "Where's the bourbon?" After 40 takes of her saying "Where's the whiskey?", "Where's the bottle?", or "Where's the bonbon?", Wilder pasted the correct line in one of the drawers. After Monroe became confused about which drawer contained the line, Wilder had it pasted in every drawer. Fifty-nine takes were required for this scene and when she finally does say it, she has her back to the camera, leading some to wonder if Wilder finally gave up and had it dubbed.
Upon its original release, Kansas banned the film from being shown in the state, explaining that cross-dressing was "too disturbing for Kansans."
Marilyn Monroe wanted the movie to be shot in color (her contract stipulated that all her films were to be in color), but Billy Wilder convinced her to let it be shot in black and white when costume tests revealed that the makeup that Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon wore gave their faces a green tinge.
"[last lines] Jerry: Oh no you don't! Osgood, I'm gonna level with you. We can't get married at all. Osgood: Why not? Jerry: Well, in the first place, I'm not a natural blonde. Osgood: Doesn't matter. Jerry: I smoke! I smoke all the time! Osgood: I don't care. Jerry: Well, I have a terrible past. For three years now, I've been living with a saxophone player. Osgood: I forgive you. Jerry: [tragically] I can never have children! Osgood: We can adopt some. Jerry: But you don't understand, Osgood! Ohh... [Jerry finally gives up and pulls off his wig] Jerry: [normal voice] I'm a man! Osgood: [shrugs] Well, nobody's perfect! [Jerry looks on with disbelief as Osgood continues smiling with indifference. Fade out]"
"Jerry: Have I got things to tell you! Joe: What happened? Jerry: I'm engaged. Joe: Congratulations. Who's the lucky girl? Jerry: I am!"
