Marilyn Monroe Was a Fruitcake. Tony Curtis Said It | Parkinson on BBC
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Tony Curtis grew up in Manhattan with Hungarian Jewish immigrant parents and never quite felt like an American. He has been moving ever since. He considers this a wonderful way to live. In this conversation with Michael Parkinson, Curtis talks about walking into Hollywood with no idea how complicated it was going to be, about having 37 people working for him before he was earning enough to pay any of them, and about ignoring every critic who ever wrote about him on the grounds that somebody was clearly buying tickets. He talks about learning to act by watching Cary Grant and the moments left unsaid that give a performance its mystery. Then there is Marilyn Monroe. Curtis worked with her on Some Like It Hot and is characteristically direct about what she was like. He does not blame Hollywood. He does not blame the system. He says she was a fruitcake caught in a system that demanded things she was not capable of giving, and that the tragedy was inseparable from the beauty. Legendary t
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