This image shows actor Tony Curtis inside a pink tent, opening a bottle of champagne in the 1965 comedy film The Great Race. • Curtis played the role of the adventurous hero, The Great Leslie, known for wearing elaborate white outfits. • The Great Race was a lavish production directed by Blake Edwards, featuring an all-star cast including Jack Lemmon and Natalie Wood. • The film is celebrated for its comedic slapstick style and iconic car race spanning from New York to Paris. • It received five Academy Award nominations, ultimately winning for Best Sound Editing.

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TIME FOR A DRINK

Ben picked such a long movie he didn't have time to get in a barb at Eddie. #TheGreatRace #TCM #TCMParty #NoirAlley

In the pink- 2 ways.
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“Push the button, Max.”
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This film received five Oscar nominations including Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing and Best Music Song (“The Sweetheart Tree“) and won in the category of Best Sound Effect.
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I wonder what this scene was like to film…
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This famous pie fight is a record-holder as the largest pie fight in film history. They used 2,357 REAL pies of fruit, custard and whipped cream variety.
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I love that this duel is played completely straight until the very end
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Here’s a yummy part.
Martin Ross and Tony Curtis fencing…

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My favorite line:
“Leslie escaped?"
Professor Fate: "Yes."
General Kuhster: "With a small friar."
Professor Fate: "Leslie escaped with a chicken?"

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I bet this was a fun scene to film! #TheGreatRace #tcmparty

“Escaped?
—“With a small friar.”
“Leslie escaped with a chicken?”
🤣🤣🤣 I will never not laugh out loud at that line.
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That moment Professor Fate is fully prepared to bail out of a rolling carriage rather than undergo the indignity of mimicking the Prince's laugh
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When we hear Natalie Wood speak Russian in #TheGreatRace it’s because she spoke it fluently, being born to Russian immigrant parents. #tcmparty

No doubt the captured swimming scene was added to get Natalie Wood into this outfit. #tcmparty #TheGreatRace

That pond where she's swimming was one to the stops on the Warner Bros. classic film studio tour. #TheGreatRace #TCMParty

The way Jack Lemmon as Professor Fate always yells charms me, but his laugh as the Prince Hapnick really makes me giggle.
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The Sweetheart Tree > The Raintree
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Edith Head created brilliant costumes for Natalie Wood for The Great Race. #tcmparty #TheGreatRace

"Rise and shine?"
"It's seven-thirty."
"Then you rise, you shine!"
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That's why I live in California. I never want to take a chance that someone will break off my mustache #TheGreatRace #TCMParty

Behind which rock!
This rock, you idiot! #TheGreatRace #TCMParty

The frozen mustache bit cracks me up. #tcmparty #TheGreatRace

#ChekhovsCarrierPigeons strike again.

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It’s a good thing she packed that matching parasol in her quick escape. Along with her homing pigeons.
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Larry Storch as Texas Jack is such a hilarious character. Fiddle-le-dee! #TheGreatRace #tcmparty

Beautiful costumes… Miss Olay and Miss Maggie #TheGreatRace #tcmparty

He shouldn’t a hadn’t a outtna swung on me..
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in my humble opinion, peter falk steals every scene he's in. #TheGreatRace #tcmparty

She may be competing in a transcontinental auto race, but she’s managed to pack a fabulous outfit for every occasion.
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