Quoting Wilder: "What happens after Joe E. Brown says 'Nobody's perfect'? People ask me that. The American public wasn't ready for that in 1959.
"Some Like It Hot is a picture I sometimes wish I had saved and made later. It was a daring theme for its time, two boys dressing up as girls. Ten years later we could have been bolder. But the picture was too successful for me to do the subject again. And I'm glad I did it, just the way I did."
That is from Charlotte Chandler's book on Wilder, Nobody's Perfect: Billy Wilder, A Personal Biography. Shortly after that quote we get an ending that Wilder and Diamond wrote but knew they couldn't use. Right after Osgood's line, we cut to a nightclub in Havana. Sugar is singing in bad Spanish. Jerry and Joe, out of drag, are in the band. Joe is still clearly in love with Sugar, but Jerry is bored. Suddenly Jerry is startled by something he sees: Osgood entering the club with two blondes. Osgood sees and recognizes Jerry. Close up on Jerry, dismayed, followed by closeup of Osgood's wide smile.
I'm not sure that Osgood always knows, but he clearly is more than a little bi-curious. :) |
