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      • 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.
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  2. Oct 4, 2010 · In conclusion, the evidence shows that Tony Curtis did say that kissing Marilyn Monroe was like kissing Hitler. He said it during the making of the popular comedy “Some Like It Hot” after the kissing scene with Monroe was filmed.

  3. Aug 10, 2020 · 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 ...

  4. Apr 18, 2008 · "You know something," says Curtis, who is suddenly shedding his insecurities, "I became a really good actor." He complains that the film industry never appreciated him and failed to give...

  5. 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.

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    • Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom
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    Although Marilyn Monroe was one of the most gorgeous movie stars of her time, actor Tony Curtis didn’t love kissing her while the two starred together in the 1959 comedy Some Like It Hot. In fact, he once uttered the words “kissing Marilyn was like kissing Hitler.” Curtis told theDaily Mail in 2008 that during one scene, Marilyn “nearly choked me t...

    Singin’ In The Rain (1952) is considered to be one of Hollywood’s most successful musical films of all time. However, not all those involved had a great experience while working on the classic. Debbie Reynolds, who was only 19 at the time, played the onscreen girlfriend of Gene Kelly, who was 39 years old. According to Reynolds’ memoir, Kelly was n...

    Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable certainly heated up the big screen with their chemistry in Gone With The Wind(1939), but Leigh deserved another Best Actress Oscar because she has since publicly stated that she did not enjoy kissing Gable one bit. One would think that Gable would be a good kisser as he had a reputation as a Hollywood playboy. However, ...

    Although Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze have great on-screen chemistry in Dirty Dancing (1987), their off-screen chemistry was essentially nonexistent. In fact, the tension that appears in the movie between the two actors isn’t acting- it’s real irritation. The two had different acting styles, which led to both stars being annoyed with one anothe...

    Sometimes movie relationships mimic real-world dynamics, and such was the case with Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte in the 1994 flick I Love Trouble. Supposedly, the two actors despised one another so much that they had to film their scenes separately and use stand-in actors to create on-screen chemistry. Roberts would later go on to tell the New York...

    Although actors Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams would win an MTV Movie Award for “Best Movie Kiss” in 2005 and went on to date each other for a considerable amount of time, the two stars did not want to kiss each other during the filming of The Notebook(2004) – mainly because they hated each other. In a 2014 interview with Vh1,director Nick Cassave...

    This is the second time Julia Roberts – who has been dubbed “the most beautiful woman in the world” – had a costar who doesn’t want to kiss her. Denzel Washington outrightly refused to include a romantic scene with Roberts in the 1993 film The Pelican Brief even though the actress personally requested Washington as her co-star. Initially, people be...

    Sometimes you can be the best of friends with someone and still not want to kiss them. Such is the case with Helen Mirren when she co-starred with Harrison Ford in the 1986 film The Mosquito Coast. During a BBC radio interviewin 1997, Mirren said that Harrison was “the nicest, sweetest guy you could want to meet.” However, when it came to filming r...

    For us, this one hurt – a lot. But really, this is just speculation because Keira Knightley never has said outright that she hated kissing Orlando Bloom. Instead, she has just implied it. During her time as Elizabeth Swann inThe Pirates of the Caribbeanfranchise, Knightley kissed both Bloom and Johnny Depp. She was once asked who she preferred kiss...

    More from us: Celebrities Who Clashed On-Set And Refuse To Work Together Decades Later This one was another one that hurt because we so desperately wish that the world of Harry Potter – including Ron and Hermione ending up together- was real. Interestingly, it wasn’t just Emma Watson and Rupert Grint who felt weird about their kiss, but so did Harr...

  6. Mar 7, 2022 · Almost immediately after Tony Curtis filmed Some Like It Hot alongside Marilyn Monroe. Critics began drilling the male star about what it was like to kiss one of the most lusted-after female celebrities of the time; In response, Tony memorably quoted saying that kissing Marilyn Monroe was akin to kissing Hitler.

  7. In 1959, Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis shared a kissing scene in Billy Wilder's comedy Some Like It Hot and afterwards Curtis made his infamous remark about Marilyn, that kissing her was "like kissing Hitler".