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Nobody's Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot (Hardback)

Hobbies & Lifestyle > Film, Media & Television P&S History

By Lucy Santos
Imprint: White Owl
Pages: 224
Illustrations: 16 mono illustrations
ISBN: 9781036138806
Published: 30th August 2026

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What happens when you bring together:

• a legendary director with a razor-sharp wit,

• a bombshell determined to prove she’s more than her appearance,

• a rising leading man hungry for his breakthrough,

• an unflappable professional striving to keep everything together,

• a fiercely protective drama coach with a reputation at stake,

• a playwright under the shadow of government scrutiny,

• and three brothers determined to reshape Hollywood moviemaking?

You get a behind-the-scenes saga like no other.

Nobody’s Perfect offers an inside look at the making of Some Like It Hot, tracing the film’s journey from pre-production to cultural legacy.

A story where Nobody’s Perfect and there’s everything to play for.

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About Lucy Santos

Lucy Jane Santos is a writer, presenter and consultant who seeks out the surprising stories that sit at the edges of familiar history. Her work ranges across beauty, science, technology, popular entertainment and nightlife, uncovering fresh angles and new insights into the moments that have shaped the modern world.

This expertise has led to historical consulting roles for film and television and to on-screen contributions in documentaries as seemingly diverse as Makeup: A Glamorous History (BBC2) and Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America (Discovery +). Her research and commentary have also appeared in publications including History Today, BBC History Revealed, Vogue and the New York Post and in the London Transport Museum’s exhibition Art deco: the golden age of poster design.

Lucy is the author of the critically acclaimed Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium and Chain Reactions: A Hopeful History of Uranium, which explore the unexpected ways radioactivity entered everyday life.

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