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September 19, 2019

Volume 49 - No. 38

By Friedrich Gomez

This year marks the 60th Anniversary of the historic and cutting-edge movie “Some Like It Hot,” released in 1959 starring that immortal, iconic sex goddess, Marilyn Monroe, along with seasoned actors, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, as principle co-stars. The film was shot on location on beautiful white sand beaches with the storied Hotel Del Coronado looming in the backdrop. The legendary Hotel Del would serve as a The Paper - 760.747.7119

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“stand-in,” that is, it was scripted to be The Seminole-Ritz Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, during the 1929 Prohibition Era.

BEHIND THE SCENES DRAMA RE-SURFACES. Marilyn Monroe’s well-known delayed appearances and complete absences from the set were not all due to substance abuse and sickness, as seems to be the ‘go-to-answer’ with most who chronicle her celebrated visit here. A relatively-recent discovery of

extraordinary Marilyn Monroe letters, personal notes, and diary recordings – for the very first time - offer the world a new, neverbefore-seen look at her inner-most thoughts, motivations, ambitions, and fears of a certain someone plotting her murder.

Even now, as these personal documents and glimpses of her hidden life are slowly being released and auctioned off, a startling new insight is emerging about her San Diego visit on the set of Some Like It Hot.

It has been revealed that Marilyn, at first, rejected the idea of playing her character, “Sugar Kane,” to be filmed at San Diego County’s coastal city of Coronado, but, was strongly-encouraged to accept the film project by then-husband, Arthur Miller. The monetary enticement of receiving 10% of the film’s total profits in addition to her normal pay was too good to turn down. Her standard pay of $300,000 (equivalent to $2.6-million today), was three times the amount co-star, Tony Curtis, would receive in the amount of $100,000

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