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Article: "You said a mouthful!".(Reel World)(Joe E. Brown)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- May 1, 2004
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DID A BOOK PROPOSAL on my favorite neglected comedian, Joe E. Brown (1892-1973). If the name does not ring a bell, think of writer/director Billy Wilder's "Some Like It Hot" (1959). This is the picture where musicians Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and, for their own protection, join an all-girl band--as girls! Where does Brown come in? He is the oversexed millionaire, Osgood Fielding III, who falls for Jack Lemmon's in-drag Daphne. Besides stealing the movie from an all-star cast including Marilyn Monroe--Brown closes the film with its most melnorable line. That is, Osgood's response to his "fiancee's" admission that "she" is a ...
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