Monroe wanted the film to be shot in colour (her contract stipulated that all her films were to be in colour), but Wilder convinced her to let it be shot in black and white when costume tests revealed that the makeup that Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon wore gave their faces a green tinge. See more...
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10 Twilight mistakes in pictures
Directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis (add more)
Continuity: This takes place in the scene where Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon first meet Marilyn Monroe on the train. Throughout the scene you can see Marilyn Monroe's black bra straps appear and disappear. It happens once on her right shoulder and once on her left shoulder.
Continuity: It is supposed to be night when Joe slips out of the hotel, but a daytime sky is visible.
Continuity: At night, on the train, Sugar gets the curtains stuck between the ladder and the side of the berth. In the next shot she opens the curtains while standing on the ladder and without moving it.
Factual error: In the shot where the female band members run from their hotel (in Florida) to the beach, mountains can be seen in the background.
Continuity: When Tony Curtis & Marilyn are on their way to the yacht, Marilyn has what appears to be a clear 'bra-band' across the back of her gown - this band appears and disappears until they are finally settled in the room.
Continuity: In Florida, Josephine and Daphne are assigned to room 413, but from then on their room number switches back and forth between 413 and 415.
Continuity: In the scene on the train when Sugar climbs into 7A with "Josephine" she hides from Sue who is going to the bathroom. The girls come in and start a party. When it spills over into the walkway and "Daphne" pulls the brake chord, Sue jumps up from her bunk. She never came back through the hallway from the bathroom or she would have seen all the girls coming to the party.
Revealing: When Joe and Gerald escape down the balconies you can see that the view of the ocean is painted, specifically the waves don't move.
Revealing: When Spats Columbo's gangsters are being searched for weapons at the Florida Hotel, the man doing the pat search can be seen placing the gun behind the gangster's leg, just before it supposedly drops out of his trouser leg.
Other: When Sugar and Josephine are talking on the telephone, Sugar's eyes are moving backwards and forwards, obviously reading from a cue-card.
Continuity: In the chase scene in Florida, Joe and Jerry escape the gangsters at one point by running up to their rooms, changing into their Josephine and Daphne costumes and then coming back to the elevator. The problem is that the two reside on the 4th floor in Room 413 and the elevator shows that they came down from the 3rd floor.
Other: In the opening chase-scene when the whisky-filled coffin is hit by bullets, whisky flows out of holes even above the liquid-level.
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