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Lucy Jane Santos

@lucyjanesantos.bsky.social
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Writer, presenter and consultant researching the unexpected places where science, culture and consumerism meet. Nobody’s Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot (Aug 2026) linktr.ee/lucyjanesantos_

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Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thanks @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social for sharing. Always exciting when the first photos of a new book actually in people’s hands arrive!
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Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh no. I really don’t want to read this do I?
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Independent Historians Network (UK) @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Have to plug one of our founders’ new book on this #histbookchat @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social has a deep dive into the making of the iconic film Some Like It Hot. Gorgeous looking book, and huge amounts of passion and research have gone into it.
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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
📢 We're Hiring: Executive Director 🧪 For over 30 years, SGR has promoted science and technology which contributes to peace, social justice, and environmental sustainability. Can you help us take the next step? Deadline: 5pm GMT on Monday 9th November 2026. www.sgr.org.uk/pages/vacanc...
Advert for a new executive director position. £42123 pro-rate and home working allowance. 15 hours per week with potential to increase. Permanent role. Apply by Monday 9th November at 5pm.
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I chatted with @amyfuller.bsky.social about HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, historical research methods, & myths about science and modernity that can get in the way, on the Challenging Histories podcast from @histfest.bsky.social! 💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci pod.link/6809223500
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Challenging Histories
Listen to Challenging Histories wherever you get your podcasts!
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Dr Amy Fuller @amyfuller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Episode 3 of Challenging Histories produced by @histfest.bsky.social is out now. I’m talking to the brilliant @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social about the history of Monsters! Available wherever you get your podcasts pod.link/6809223500
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Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yeah it was a mistake to publish a book, sell and buy a house AND go out on sub all within the same few months. Am a wreck and hate several professions with a passion but at least this beauty is FINALLY HERE.
A photo of the hard cover book Nobody's Perfect The Making of Some Like It Hot by Lucy Jane Santos on what looks like a bed spread
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Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Squee it’s here!!!
Nobody’s perfect the making of some like it hot on a blue carpet background
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Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My sister just got a notice that my new book had been delivered to her house. So we (including my nibling) are rushing to check it out 👀👀
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Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yes! Love listening to all the fascinating episodes and loved being on one too. Do get in touch with @garius.bsky.social and share your obsessions - you won’t regret it!
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Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One of my favourite nights of the year is the (now) annual ALVA visit to the Tower of London. We get the ceremony of the keys, a few drinks at the Yeoman Warder’s private pub and a raffle where I won a bobble hat.
View of the white tower from below at night White tower at night A bagged red and black bobble hat sealed in a bag and placed on a table. Next to it are some discarded raffle tickets
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Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you want chapters and chapters of WTFs then definitely buy my debut book on the history of radium. Used in medicine, cosmetic, pharmaceuticals, fashion, & theatre- it certainly was a big part of everyday life at one point and the ramifications of that are still with us today. #booksky
Front cover of Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium
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Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Haven’t seen a copy yet but it exists! Nobody’s Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot out at the end of September ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Photo of a pile of books including Nobody’s Perfect The Making of Some Like It Hot
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Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Haven’t seen a copy yet but it exists! Nobody’s Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot out at the end of September ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Photo of a pile of books including Nobody’s Perfect The Making of Some Like It Hot
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
very much this
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Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s been a while since I last mentioned this but my new book Nobody’s Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot is out at the end of the month (slight delay from the original plan 🙃). Please do let all your movie loving friends/family about it or -even better- pre order them a copy!
Front cover of book. Shows title and a behind the scenes shot of the band playing music
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Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What is the appropriate punishment for people who pull out of a house sale two days before exchange? There’s nothing legal we can do but I want to send over some bad vibes at least.
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Angry Cat on Computer
Alt: Angry Cat on Computer
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Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Can’t wait to read this later! Hillary is such a fantastic researcher, writer and curator.
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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Early Sixties 'salesman sample' atomic bomb shelter model. www.ebay.com/itm/23706540...
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Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Any freelancer/independent people near Birmingham - please do join us for this meet up.
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HistFest @histfest.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
📣 Announcement! We’re delighted to share a brand-new podcast series that invites expert historians to challenge your perceptions of the past. CHALLENGING HISTORIES is hosted by historian and author, @amyfuller.bsky.social. Listen wherever you get your podcasts! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...
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Karen Averby 🌊 @karenaverby.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Independent Historians! Fancy a meetup in Birmingham (6pm on the 16th) and/ or Leeds (30th)? Informal drinks/ chats...It will be great to see you! Non-members welcome 🤗 DM @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social for more details. See you there 🤩.
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Independent Historians Network (UK) @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Have you heard that we are hosting two meet-ups for independent historians? If you are in the North or the Midlands come and join us for drinks and chat! Open to non-members Near the main train stations B'ham - 16th Leeds - 30th DM for details We are super friendly and can't wait to meet you!
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Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Ooh one thing I didn’t get was a red hot water bottle (see second photo) to mix the drinks. Will get one of those for the new publication day.
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Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I had a whole Some Like It Hot party (manhattans, salami, cheese, crackers) planned for tonight but since my publication date has been unaccountably moved will postpone. But don’t worry will still open something delicious!
Still from movie shows Jack Lemmon as Daphne on a berth with Marilyn Monroes sugar Kane. They have a bottle of bourbon and cups Colour still from movie. Shows the members of sweet sues band having a train party
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Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Stand down!! Erm so apparently the publishing date has been put back a month since I last checked on their website. Wish someone had mentioned that to me! Pre order now I guess??
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Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
My book is out today! Thanks to the lovely @historia-hwa.bsky.social for the shout out ❤️ #nobodysperfectproject
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Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Is available in all the normal places but have put a few links here linktr.ee/NobodysPerfe...
Front cover and spine of Nobody’s perfect the making of some like it hot by Lucy Jane santos
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Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I shared this photo a year ago to celebrate finishing the writing part of my #wip and today I am sharing it again to celebrate that it is out in the next few days.
Photo of several piles of books about Marilyn Monroe and some like it hot.
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Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I shared this photo a year ago to celebrate finishing the writing part of my #wip and today I am sharing it again to celebrate that it is out in the next few days.
Photo of several piles of books about Marilyn Monroe and some like it hot.
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Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Saw today - the message felt appropriate.
Photo of a wall with text painted on. Text reads a breath of fresh air is a great thing to take and am even better thing to be
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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It's been a while! 🥊 A new blog about Jem Smith and his wives, Anne Smith and Mary Ann Smith. Includes a call for experts in Victorian marriage stuff, especially involving Catholics, or generally anyone with a bit of time on their hands. Please wade in... grapplingwithhistory.com/2026/08/25/t...
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The lonely life of the champion’s wife, Anne Smith
When James Smith and Mary Ann Smith had been married almost 30 years, newspapers across the country reported that the former Heavyweight Champion’s wife was dead. Which might have been rather…
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Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
At the same time Lemmon worked with Harry Ray and considered makeup as vital for his character - especially lipstick. Together they replicated the 1920s "bee-stung" effect which was even sometimes slightly altered mid scene to emphasize his different expressions.
A white faced fully made up Jack Lemmon sitting in a chair. He has red lips which are pursed and makeup artist Harry Ray is applying lipstick and looking with deep concentration
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Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Am still thinking about what happened #OTD during filming of Some Like It Hot in August 1958 but am going to go a little out of sequence now as I really wanted to look at some of the people involved in the transformation of Joe and Jerry into Josephine and Daphne. #NobodysPerfectProject
Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon as Joe and Jerry - they are dressed in evening clothes and are holding a saxophone and a bass respectively. Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon as Josephine and Daphne in Some Like It Hot. They are wearing their daytime dresses and hats although Lemmon has removed his hat and wig and has a very quizzical look on his face
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Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing @bloomsburylit.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"A delightful short read that weaves together autobiography, testimony, history, and feminist analysis to celebrate the artificiality of women as category, subject, and object." Check out this review of Lipstick by Eileen G'Sell in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/femm...
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To Be Femme | Los Angeles Review of Books
Is ‘femme’ feminist?
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Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Out at the end of August and available to pre order at all the usual places. 👇
Screen grab of title page of Nobody’s Perfect the making of some like it hot by 
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David Frew @drvon2.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Ooh looks good. Links for UK readers Bookshop org uk.bookshop.org/p/books/nobo... Waterstones: www.waterstones.com/book/nobodys... Amazon uk link www.amazon.co.uk/Nobodys-Perf...
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Nobody's Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot
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 breakthroug...
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Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Out at the end of August and available to pre order at all the usual places. 👇
Screen grab of title page of Nobody’s Perfect the making of some like it hot by 
Lucy Jane santos
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Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
It is also a frustrating piece of my history - as a few years ago (before I started the real research for this book) I was in LA and went to the famous - and historic- Formosa for cocktails and dim sum.
Colour photograph of the outside of the Formosa cafe with its bright red paint and black and white canopies and lush green shrubs.
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Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
These studios were the base of United Artists (the films distributors) as well as Billy Wilder and Iz Diamond's Ashton Productions as well as lots of other independents. It had started as Pickford-Fairbanks Studios and I love this picture of Mary and Douglas putting up the sign in 1922.
Slightly blurry photo shows a background of the Hollywood Hills and a lot with some properties on it. The main image is a curved sign that reads Pickford-Fairbanks Studios and shows Mary up a ladder with Douglas next to her with his arms outspread. He looks thrilled.
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Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
(Am a bit behind with my #OTD for Some Like It Hot but lets continue!!) With the production now in its third week the focus was the sequences in the interior sets of the Pullman carriages. These - along with the other interior scenes were created on the sound stages of Goldwyn Studios.
Still from the movie Some Like It Hot. Shows Marilyn Monroe (Sugar Kane) in a black negligee and wrap breaking off a huge cube of ice in a sink of a train rest room. Next to her is Tony Curtis as Josephine dressed in a night gown and slippers seemingly telling her off.
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Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
(Am a bit behind with my #OTD for Some Like It Hot but lets continue!!) With the production now in its third week the focus was the sequences in the interior sets of the Pullman carriages. These - along with the other interior scenes were created on the sound stages of Goldwyn Studios.
Still from the movie Some Like It Hot. Shows Marilyn Monroe (Sugar Kane) in a black negligee and wrap breaking off a huge cube of ice in a sink of a train rest room. Next to her is Tony Curtis as Josephine dressed in a night gown and slippers seemingly telling her off.
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Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Is only 10 days until my new book - Nobody's Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot - comes out and would love for some pre-orders. A story where Nobody's Perfect and there's everything to play for. Pre order: linktr.ee/NobodysPerfe...
Still from Some Like It Hot. Shows the scene where the band are rehearsing on the train with marilyn Monroe as Sugar with her ukuele and the rest of the band behind her.
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Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Is only 10 days until my new book - Nobody's Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot - comes out and would love for some pre-orders. A story where Nobody's Perfect and there's everything to play for. Pre order: linktr.ee/NobodysPerfe...
Still from Some Like It Hot. Shows the scene where the band are rehearsing on the train with marilyn Monroe as Sugar with her ukuele and the rest of the band behind her.
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Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
DRAFTING THE PAST is expanding! Together, @katecarp.bsky.social and @mkn.bsky.social are creating a website and newsletter devoted to nonfiction history books. You'll find book reviews, craft essays, author interviews, publishing news, and more--plus the podcast you already know and love. 🗃️ 1/
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History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
🚨 THIS WEEK TO PATREON AND APPLE SUBS🚨 💔 Hollywood wanted the cameras rolling—even when Marilyn Monroe was seriously ill. @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social tells the human story behind the headlines. 🎬 Listen now: www.patreon.com/hist... #HistoryRage #MarilynMonroe #FilmHistory ❤️
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History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Have you enjoyed this week’s Patreon episode? ✨ Support the author, and me 📚❤️ by buying a copy of "Nobody’s Perfect” by @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social through the History Rage Bookshop 📖 Buy the book: uk.bookshop.org/a/10... 🎧 Listen now: www.patreon.com/hist... #History #Podcast
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History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
🚨 THIS WEEK ON PATREON & APPLE 🚨 ⚖️ Marilyn Monroe challenged the system—and Hollywood didn't like it. @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social explores the double standards she faced. 🎬 Listen now: www.patreon.com/hist... #HistoryRage #MarilynMonroe #WomenInHistory 💛
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Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Wilder later admitted that she was absolutely right in her assessment and arranged for a retake incorporating the more dynamic and totally iconic entrance she had wanted. It worked perfectly!
Still from Some Like It Hot. Shows Monroe walking past the train and a jet of steam hitting her
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Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
#OTD the train platform is also where we meet Sugar Kane for the first time in one of Some Like It Hot's most iconic sequences. It was Marilyn's first stretch of actual shooting and took a few takes until Billy Wilder was satisfied with the scene.
behind the scenes image of Marilyn Monroe onset as Sugar Kane. She is wearing a black coat, carrying a suitcase and her ukuele.
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