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The Movie Star Who Thought Marilyn Monroe Was A Terrible Kisser

By J.E. Reich / Aug. 10, 2020 1:09 pm EDT

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One of the enduring rules of Hollywood — and, by extension, Hollywood celebrities — is that the silver screen always makes everything larger than life. It's one of the joys of cinema (and media in general), but it's also one of its pitfalls, especially when it comes to the performers we come to admire.
Celebrities might appear to be more attractive and fascinating than the people who appear in our own comparatively run-of-the-mill lives, but just because they hover somewhere between fantasy and reality doesn't mean that fantasy is actually willed into existence. The "celebrities — they're just like us!" joke is a joke for a reason: because it's true .
In that vein, let's delve into what we're really here to talk about: kissing. Or rather, what one famous old Hollywood star said when asked what it was like to kiss bonafide sex symbol and cinema icon Marilyn Monroe . While the entertainment industry is rife with stories about who was and wasn't as fabulous a kisser as they appeared to be onscreen , this particular former co-star's criticism was unduly harsh. So who is the actor in question? And what was it he said that drew this particular amount of ire? Let's take a look.
The actor in question? None other than Marilyn Monroe's former Some Like it Hot co-star Tony Curtis. When asked in an interview what it was like to kiss Monroe, Curtis held no punches. As the Daily Mail noted in a 2008 interview with Curtis himself, the actor once said that kissing Monroe "was like kissing Hitler."
As a standalone quote, Curtis' take on what it was like to kiss Monroe seems about as dadaist as it is outrageous. And while the actor's word-for-word evaluation doesn't necessarily become more understandable with context, it certainly adds a bit of clarity as to why he would go out of his way to say something like that about Monroe. As author Donald Spoto noted in his biography on the actress , Curtis infamously made his Hitler comparison in reaction to the number of retakes Monroe insisted upon while filming, writing, "[Curtis] probably meant it could not possibly appeal to anyone but [Hitler's wife] Eva Braun."
Curtis, however, recanted the statement entirely more than four decades after Monroe's death in 1962 . "I said it as a joke," Curtis insisted in his 2008 Daily Mail interview. "I mean, it was such a darn stupid question, so I gave a stupid answer."
By all accounts, not only did Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe participate in an infamous feud during the filming of 1959's Some Like It Hot, but their ongoing spat was possibly the product of a nasty breakup between the two, who "became lovers" in the early '50s, per the Daily Mail . However, as per other sources, the whole thing might've not only been played up, it could have been a front for a much larger scandal.
According to his 2009 memoir American Prince , the well-documented, mutual dislike between Curtis and his co-star was (and continues to be) not only highly exaggerated but the exact opposite of what was really going on behind the scenes. As Curtis himself portrayed it (via The Guardian ), not only were he and Monroe engaged in a passionate, extramarital affair while filming the Billy Wilder farce — Curtis was married to Psycho actress Janet Leigh and Monroe was with playwright Arthur Miller — but their relationship resulted in a pregnancy and, ultimately, a miscarriage.
Even while alleging a relationship with Monroe on the set of the 1959 film, Curtis maintained that the kissing scenes weren't super pleasant. "It was awful," Curtis told the Daily Mail in 2008. "She nearly choked me to death by deliberately sticking her tongue down my throat into my windpipe."
Regarding the comments, Monroe had this to say (via Marilyn Monroe: The Biography ): "If I have to do intimate love scenes with somebody who really has these kind of feelings toward me, then my fantasy can come into play ... out with him, in with my fantasy."

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Over the years, I got to know the talented film star Tony Curtis. Tony lived in Las Vegas in his later years and spent a lot of time in his art studio which was adjacent to his home. He painted and even did sculpting (I even have a sculpted horse created by Tony). I would visit Tony at his home and even in Los Angeles before that for dinner at Dan Tana’s restaurant.
Tony was a great raconteur. He could regal you with stories from his long career. Like our talks with Mickey Rooney, some stories were factual and some were either apocryphal or exaggerated by time. Tony was there with the great stars and he certainly had some wild experiences. Yet he could… embellish some of his tales.
Of course, I enjoyed his tales of Marilyn Monroe. Tony had dated and f**cked Monroe when she was a young starlet. Of course, most of Hollywood reputedly enjoyed carnal delight with MM from Orson Welles, Jack Benny, Groucho Marx, Jerry Lewis, Milton Berle and many others who staked a claim.
Tony took it a step beyond. He told me that he seriously dated MM early in both of their career. However, when he was reunited in 1959 with her In “Some Like it Hot” and had a very sensual love scene with her, Tony claimed he slept with her during filming at a hotel in San Diego- even though her husband at the time, writer Arthur Miller and his wife, actress Janet Leigh were both at the hotel. He also claimed that he impregnated Marilyn who later suffered a miscarriage. He also said Miller was aware that it was his child.
However, publicly Tony would often disparage MM and her working habits
In 1959 Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe worked together in the very popular classic comedy “Some Like It Hot” directed by Billy Wilder. Monroe was a glamorous icon in 1959, and the film contained a kissing scene between Curtis and Monroe. Curtis says he was asked repeatedly what it was like to kiss the leading screen siren of the age, and finally in exasperation he replied sarcastically that it was like kissing Hitler. He simply wanted to end the questioning with a joke. He really thought she was a great kisser, and people misunderstood the quote.
Marilyn herself responded to reports of the quote in an interview in Life magazine in 1962. The cover date of the issue is two days before her death:
I don’t like to say this, but I’m afraid there is a lot of envy in this business. The only thing I can do is I stop and think. “I’m all right but I’m not so sure about them!”
For instance, you’ve read there was some actor that once said about me that kissing me was like kissing Hitler. Well, I think that’s his problem. If I have to do intimate love scenes with somebody who really has these kind of feelings toward me, then my fantasy can come into play. In other words, out with him, in with my fantasy. He was never there.
I asked Tony about the quote. He laughed and said went into detail about his thoughts of MM.
He thought she was incredible on film. While she was difficult to work with as she was always late to the set and held up filming and that there were countless retakes as she either couldn’t do the lines or that her constant companion, Paula Strasberg had her redo the lines. It of course killed and dulled the spontaneity and performance of the other actors. He said that since many of her scenes were with him and not Jack Lemmon, he suffered through the delays. He said Billy Wilder put up with her antics as he knew that she was incredible on film. While he eventually banned Strasberg, he struggled through her various problems. Wilder knew what he was getting as he had worked with her prior on “The Seven Year Itch”.
Tony also claimed that Marilyn actually tried to arouse him in that wild seduction scene on the boat. He said despite the crew, she was letting loose.
So, I once again asked Tony, “was it like kissing Hitler?”
He smiled and said, “No it was more like Eva Braun”

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Over the years, I got to know the talented film star Tony Curtis. Tony lived in Las Vegas in his later years and spent a lot of time in his art studio which was adjacent to his home. He painted and even did sculpting (I even have a sculpted horse created by Tony). I would visit Tony at his home and even in Los Angeles before that for dinner at Dan Tana’s restaurant.
Tony was a great raconteur. He could regal you with stories from his long career. Like our talks with Mickey Rooney, some stories were factual and some were either apocryphal or exaggerated by time. Tony was there with the great stars and he certainly had some wild experiences. Yet he could… embellish some of his tales.
Of course, I enjoyed his tales of Marilyn Monroe. Tony had dated and f**cked Monroe when she was a young starlet. Of course, most of Hollywood reputedly enjoyed carnal delight with MM from Orson Welles, Jack Benny, Groucho Marx, Jerry Lewis, Milton Berle and many others who staked a claim.
Tony took it a step beyond. He told me that he seriously dated MM early in both of their career. However, when he was reunited in 1959 with her In “Some Like it Hot” and had a very sensual love scene with her, Tony claimed he slept with her during filming at a hotel in San Diego- even though her husband at the time, writer Arthur Miller and his wife, actress Janet Leigh were both at the hotel. He also claimed that he impregnated Marilyn who later suffered a miscarriage. He also said Miller was aware that it was his child.
However, publicly Tony would often disparage MM and her working habits
In 1959 Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe worked together in the very popular classic comedy “Some Like It Hot” directed by Billy Wilder. Monroe was a glamorous icon in 1959, and the film contained a kissing scene between Curtis and Monroe. Curtis says he was asked repeatedly what it was like to kiss the leading screen siren of the age, and finally in exasperation he replied sarcastically that it was like kissing Hitler. He simply wanted to end the questioning with a joke. He really thought she was a great kisser, and people misunderstood the quote.
Marilyn herself responded to reports of the quote in an interview in Life magazine in 1962. The cover date of the issue is two days before her death:
I don’t like to say this, but I’m afraid there is a lot of envy in this business. The only thing I can do is I stop and think. “I’m all right but I’m not so sure about them!”
For instance, you’ve read there was some actor that once said about me that kissing me was like kissing Hitler. Well, I think that’s his problem. If I have to do intimate love scenes with somebody who really has these kind of feelings toward me, then my fantasy can come into play. In other words, out with him, in with my fantasy. He was never there.
I asked Tony about the quote. He laughed and said went into detail about his thoughts of MM.
He thought she was incredible on film. While she was difficult to work with as she was always late to the set and held up filming and that there were countless retakes as she either couldn’t do the lines or that her constant companion, Paula Strasberg had her redo the lines. It of course killed and dulled the spontaneity and performance of the other actors. He said that since many of her scenes were with him and not Jack Lemmon, he suffered through the delays. He said Billy Wilder put up with her antics as he knew that she was incredible on film. While he eventually banned Strasberg, he struggled through her various problems. Wilder knew what he was getting as he had worked with her prior on “The Seven Year Itch”.
Tony also claimed that Marilyn actually tried to arouse him in that wild seduction scene on the boat. He said despite the crew, she was letting loose.
So, I once again asked Tony, “was it like kissing Hitler?”
He smiled and said, “No it was more like Eva Braun”

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