Film Fatale is delighted to announce its Cork launch 25 August in The Half Moon Theatre. August marks 50 years since the passing of one of Hollywood's most iconic stars, Marilyn Monroe. To celebrate the silver screen's most famous platinum blonde Film Fatale will screen Marilyn in her most sizzling role - as Sugar Kane in Some Like it Hot.
Film Fatale is about celebrating the glamour and old-fashioned fun of classic Hollywood films and their stars. Marilyn is the epitome of glamour but it was her playful sense of humour that made her so loveable. We’re delighted to be celebrating a true Hollywood star and that Some Like it Hot will launch Film Fatale Cork
Opening
the festivities, chanteuse Derby Browne will reprise her role
from 2010s National Concert Hall show 'Let's Make Love' for a Marilyn-inspired
tribute. The show will include songs from Some Like it Hot, Gentlemen Prefer
Blondes, There's No Business Like Show Business and Let's Make Love, alongside Marilyn’s
famous rendition of ‘Happy Birthday Mr President’.
The screening of Billy
Wilder’s hilarious comedy will be followed by a 1950s party mirroring
Hollywood’s greatest decade with Film Fatale’s resident DJs, The Andrews
Sisters’ Brothers, playing
hits from the era. The audience is invited to
help set the scene by dressing up in their vintage finest, paying homage to the
1950s or dressing like Marilyn and her co-stars Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon.
One
of Hollywood's most treasured classics and the American Film Institute's number
one in its list of America's 100 Funniest Movies, ‘Some Like It Hot’ stars Tony
Curtis and Jack Lemmon as Chicago musicians who accidentally witness a gangland
shooting and quickly board a southbound train to Florida, disguised as
Josephine and Daphne. The two then become the newest and homeliest members of
an all-girl jazz band, which includes a never-better Marilyn Monroe. While
Curtis falls for Monroe and creates another alias to woo her, Lemmon gets stuck
fending off the affections of millionaire Osgood Fielding III. Marilyn Monroe’s charm, perfectly
matched by the pairing of Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon’s comic duo, makes ‘Some
Like It Hot’ Billy Wilder’s most sizzling comedy.
Saturday the 25th
of August at 8pm, Half Moon Theatre, Cork Opera House, Emmet Place, Cork.
Tickets €14 are available
at Entertainment.ie/tickets and Corkoperahouse.ie/tickets
After-party from 11pm with tickets
at the door (€5). For more information see filmfataleevents.blogspot.com , http://corkoperahouse.ie , facebook.com/filmfataleevents or www.facebook.com/pages/Half-Moon-Theatre
