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Best Actor Comedy or Musical | 1956 | Tom
Top Female Comedy Performance | 1956 | Marilyn
Best Foreign Actress | 1956 | Marilyn
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | 1956 | Billy
Best Written American Comedy | 1956
Budget 1,800,000 USD
Box Office Collection 12,000,000 USD
Billy Wilder preferred shooting in black and white, but Marilyn Monroe's contract with Fox called for all of her movies to be shot in color. Monroe always thought that she looked far more attractive and glamorous in color than in black and white.
Marilyn Monroe's iconic white dress set a record when it was auctioned for $4.6 million in June 2011 (rising to $5.5 million after taxes and fees were included), quintupling the previous record for a movie costume ($923,000 for Audrey Hepburn's "little black dress" from Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)).
Marilyn Monroe was eager to work with Billy Wilder but had to agree to star in There's No Business Like Show Business (1954) before Fox would allow her to make this film.
After seeing Walter Matthau's screen-test in the part of Richard Sherman, Billy Wilder believed he had found his leading man. However, 20th Century-Fox was unwilling to take the risk on a newcomer. That's when Wilder next turned his sights on the actor who had originated the role on Broadway, Tom Ewell - who is inexplicably billed as "Tommy Ewell" in the opening credits.
While many actors were considered for the role of Richard Sherman (played by Tom Ewell), no one but Marilyn Monroe was considered for the role of The Girl.
"The Girl: You and your imagination! You think every girl's a dope. You think a girl goes to a party and there's some guy, a great big lunk in a fancy striped vest, strutting around like a tiger giving you that I'm-so-handsome-you-can't-resist-me look. And for this she's supposed to fall flat on her face. Well, she doesn't fall on her face. But there's another guy in the room, way over in the corner. Maybe he's kind of nervous and shy and perspiring a little. First, you look past him. But then you sort of sense that he's gentle and kind and worried. That he'll be tender with you. Nice and sweet. That's what's *really* exciting."
"The Girl: When it gets hot like this, you know what I do? I keep my undies in the icebox!"
