Melt Into it Easily, Slowly

Saturday, June 25th, 2011

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He taught us some valuable tricks. For instance you want to sound like a woman don’t go falsetto. Just raise your tone slightly and accentuate certain words, particularly adjectives. And when you sit down, don’t just plop into a chair, melt into it easily, slowly. 

- Jack Lemmon on the advice an “expert on female impersonation” gave him for his role in Some Like it Hot

Source: Tony Curtis Jack Lemmon and The Makeup Man’s Nightmare, Reading Eagle, March 29 1959, Page 76

No Burlesque

Saturday, June 25th, 2011

This is no burlesque. We have to be fairly believable or the whole face falls apart. So I had to study how to be a dame. Believe me, the easiest part is shaving three or tour times a day.

- Tony Curtis on dressing in drag for Some Like it Hot

Source: Tony Curtis Jack Lemmon and The Makeup Man’s Nightmare, Reading Eagle, March 29 1959, Page 76
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