Jack Lemmon (actor): “We agreed that since it was lunchtime we would, like two ding-dongs, go down to the

studio commissary dressed up like broads. One of us, I forget whether it was Tony or me, got the bright idea that
a true test would be a visit to the ladies' room. So in we went! I mean, all the way! Obviously, all the women were
in stalls . . . we weren't, you know, peeking or anything. Well, we tutzed around in the lounge, pursed our lips and
running our fingers over our brows and whatever else we could think of that ladies would do. Do you know, not
one of the girls going in or out ever batted an eyeball? They thought we were extras doing a period film on the
lot. That did it. That gave us the security we needed. . . . We Figured it those women bought it, they'd sure as hell
buy it on camera."

Jack Lemmon (actor): “‘A lot of people thought Billy was crazy to attempt such a Film. Friends told me I could
be ruined because the audience would think I was taggy or had a yen to be a transvestite. . . . l tinally decided the
real trap was to ever think of the trap. . ..

”[lnstead] I saw this character l was to play as a nut from the moon who never really stopped to think once
in his lite. He didn't act—he reacted—to whatever was happening. How else was it possible to justify a guy who,
because he's dressed like a woman, delivers a line like: ‘It those gangsters come in here and kill us, and were
taken to the morgue dressed like this I'll die 0t embarrassmentl'? Now the line isn't that tunny unless the Charac-
ter can say it and really mean it—because he doesn't think. He isn't concerned that he's going to be shot; he's wor-
ried he'll be caught in drag."

SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959) - ORRY—KELLY, COSTUME DESIGNER