Some Like It Hot

Up until last week sometime, I’d never actually seen a Marilyn Monroe film. I knew who she was, of course, and had seen the occasional brief clip from one film or another here and there, but I had yet to actually watch any of her work. All I knew about her was the image — the blonde bombshell, most often posed either with her skirt blowing up around her waist or in her famous nude shot.

Last week I got Some Like it Hot from Netflix), Prairie and I watched it over that weekend, and both really enjoyed it — as much for realizing just how cute Marilyn was as for the excellent humor running throughout the film. This week we decided to try another of her films, and picked Monkey Business, which was equally enjoyable.

Something tells me there may be more Marilyn films in the future ’round my place.

“100 Mile Dash” by Giacchino, Michael from the album Incredibles, The (2004, 3:07).