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Gemma Arterton to play Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot comedy

February 23, 2018 by Gary Collinson

British actress Gemma Arterton is set to take on the role of the iconic Marilyn Monroe for Sky Arts’ Urban Myths comedy Marilyn Monroe and Billy Wilder.

Formerly titled It’s Me, Sugar and directed by Sean Foley (Mindhorn, Brass Eye), the half-hour comedy will see James Purefoy as Wilder, who directed the blonde bombshell in 1959’s Some Like It Hot, and is said to focus on hard-drinking Monroe’s rumoured inability to land the ‘it’s me, sugar’ line from the film.

In addition to Marilyn Monroe and Billy Wilder, the Urban Myths season will also feature The Sex Pistols vs Bill Grundy starring Steve Pemberton, When Bowie Met Bolan starring Jack Whitehall as Marc Bolan and Luke Treadaway as David Bowie, The Dali and The Cooper starring David Suchet, Noel Fielding and Sheila Hancock and Public Enemy feat. Kev Wells.

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, News, Television Tagged With: Gemma Arterton, Marilyn Monroe and Billy Wilder, Some Like It Hot

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer, who is the founder of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature film 'The Baby in the Basket' and the upcoming suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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