Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American black-and-white romantic comedy film directed and produced by Billy Wilder, starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon. The supporting cast includes George Raft, Pat O’Brien, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee, Grace Lee Whitney,and Nehemiah Persoff. The screenplay by Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is based on a screenplay by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan from the 1935 French film Fanfare of Love. The film is about two musicians who dress in drag in order to escape from mafia gangsters whom they witnessed committing a crime (inspired by the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre).
- Starring : Marilyn Monroe / Tony Curtis
- Genre : Comedy / Music / Romance
- Country : United States
- Language : English
- Director : Billy Wilder
- Production : Ashton Productions / The Mirisch Corporation
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Some Like It Hot movie
Some Like It Hot release date
- March 19, 1959 : USA
- April 14, 1959 : Japan
- May 14, 1959 : Canada
- May 14, 1959 : UK (London) (premiere)
- August 14, 1959 : Ireland
- September 9, 1959 : France
- September 28, 1959 : Sweden
- October 15, 1959 : Australia
- October 14, 1963 : Spain (Barcelona)
- October 25, 1963 : Spain (Madrid)
- January 1, 1964 : France (re-release)
- February 23, 1964 : Spain (Málaga)
- February 27, 1989 : Spain (re-release) (limited)
- September 24, 1999 : Canada (Cinefest Sudbury International Film Festival)
- October 14, 2000 : Japan (re-release)
- June 6, 2002 : Germany (re-release)
- August 25, 2004 : France (re-release)
- February 26, 2005 : Australia (Adelaide Film Festival)
- April 25, 2010 : USA (TCM Classic Film Festival)
- July 18, 2014 : UK (re-release)
- January 16, 2019 : France (re-release)
Some Like It Hot cast
- Marilyn Monroe as Sugar Kane Kowalczyk
- Tony Curtis as Joe / Josephine / Shell Oil Junior
- Jack Lemmon as Jerry / Daphne
- George Raft as Spats Colombo
- Pat O’Brien as Detective Mulligan
- Joe E. Brown as Osgood Fielding III
- Nehemiah Persoff as Little Bonaparte
- Joan Shawlee as Sweet Sue
- Billy Gray as Sig Poliakoff
- George E. Stone as Toothpick Charlie
- Dave Barry as Beinstock
- Mike Mazurki as Spats’ Henchman
- Harry Wilson as Spats’ Henchman
- Beverly Wills as Dolores
- Barbara Drew as Nellie
Some Like It Hot opened to critical and commercial success and is considered to be one of the greatest films of all time. The film received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Actor, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. In 1989, the Library of Congress selected it as one of the first 25 films for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”. It was voted as the top comedy film by the American Film Institute on their list on AFI’s 100 Years…100 Laughs poll in 2000, and was selected as the best comedy of all time in a poll of 253 film critics from 52 countries conducted by the BBC in 2017. In 2005, the British Film Institute included this film on its list of “Top fifty films for children up to the age of 14”.
The film was produced without approval from the Motion Picture Production Code because it plays with the idea of homosexuality and features cross-dressing. The code had been gradually weakening in its scope since the early 1950s, due to greater social tolerance for previously taboo topics in film, but it was still officially enforced until the mid-1960s. The overwhelming success of Some Like It Hot is considered one of the final nails in the coffin for the Hays Code.
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