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Some Like It Hot
Directed by	Billy Wilder
Produced by	Ashton Productions / Mirisch Company
Written by	Billy Wilder I. A. L. Diamond
Starring	Marilyn Monroe Tony Curtis Jack Lemmon George Raft Joe E. Brown
Music by	Adolph Deutsch
Cinematography	Charles Lang
Editing by	Arthur P. Schmidt
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date(s)	March 29, 1959
Running time	120 min.
Language	English
Budget	$2,883,848
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Some Like It Hot is a 1959 comedy film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon. The supporting cast includes George Raft, Joe E. Brown, Pat O\'Brien, and Nehemiah Persoff.

The film was adapted by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond from the story by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan. Logan had already written the story (but without the gangsters) for a German film, Fanfaren der Liebe (directed by Kurt Hoffmann, 1951), so that Wilder\'s film is seen by some as a remake.

In 2000, the American Film Institute listed Some Like It Hot as the greatest American comedy film of all time.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Trivia 3 Cast 4 Adaptations 5 Awards 6 Soundtrack 7 In popular culture 7.1 "Nobody\'s perfect!" 8 See also 9 External links

Plot

Marilyn Monroe as Sugar Kane in Some Like It Hot

Some Like It Hot tells the story of two struggling musicians, Joe and Jerry (Curtis and Lemmon), who are on the run from a Chicago gang after witnessing what is presumed to be the Saint Valentine\'s Day massacre of 1929. Spats Columbo (Raft), the gangster in charge, orders the killing of Jerry and Joe. They escape in the confusion and decide to leave town, only to find the sole out-of-town job available is in an all-girl band headed to Florida. The two disguise themselves as women and call themselves Josephine and Geraldine (later Jerry changes his pseudonym to Daphne). They join the band and go to Florida by train. Joe and Jerry both fall for "Sugar Kane" Kowalczyk (Monroe), the band\'s sexy Polish-American vocalist and ukulele player, and fight for her affection while maintaining their disguises.

In Florida, Joe woos Sugar by assuming a second disguise as a millionaire (claiming to be a man known as "Junior", the heir to Shell Oil, while mimicking Cary Grant\'s voice), while an actual millionaire, Osgood Fielding III (Brown), falls for Jerry in his Daphne guise. One night Osgood asks Jerry/Daphne out to his yacht. Joe convinces Jerry/Daphne to keep Osgood ashore while he goes on the yacht with Sugar. That night Osgood proposes to Daphne/Jerry who, in a state of excitement, accepts.

When the mobsters arrive at the same hotel for a conference honoring "Friends of Italian Opera", Spats and his gang sight Joe and Jerry again. After several humorous chases (and witnessing yet another mob rubout), Jerry, Joe, Sugar, and Osgood escape to the millionaire\'s yacht. Enroute, Sugar tells Joe that she\'s in love with him and not with "Junior". Jerry, for his part, tries to explain to Osgood that he can\'t marry him, but Osgood is oblivious to all of Jerry\'s objections and remains determined -- to the very end—to go through with the love match; finally, Jerry removes the wig and yells, "I\'m a man!", prompting Osgood to utter the movie\'s immortal last line: "Well, nobody\'s perfect."

Trivia

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• The film is set at the Seminole-Ritz Hotel in Florida, but was filmed at Hotel Del Coronado in Coronado, California

• Tony Curtis is frequently quoted as saying that kissing Marilyn Monroe was like "kissing Hitler." In a 2001 interview with Leonard Maltin, Curtis stated that he never made this claim.

• The film was originally planned to be filmed in full color, but after several screen tests it had to be changed to black and white. The reason for this was a very obvious \'green tint\' around the heavy make-up of Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon when in role as Josephine and Daphne.

• The film\'s title is a line in the nursery rhyme "Pease Porridge Hot." It also occurs as dialogue in the film when Joe, as "Junior", tells Sugar he prefers classical music over hot jazz.

• The film\'s working title was "Not Tonight, Josephine".

• Some Like It Hot received a "C" (Condemned) rating from the Catholic Legion of Decency. The film, along with Alfred Hitchcock\'s Psycho (1960) and several other films, led to the end of the Production Code in the mid-1960s. Some Like It Hot was released by United Artists without the MPAA logo in the credits or title sequence since the film did not receive Production Code approval.

• After the worldwide success of the French comedy La Cage aux Folles, United Artists re-released Some Like It Hot in cinemas in 1981.

Cast

Cover of VHS release

• Marilyn Monroe as Sugar Kane Kowalczyk
• Tony Curtis as Joe—"Josephine"/"Junior"
• Jack Lemmon as Jerry—"Daphne"
• George Raft as Spats Colombo
• Pat O\'Brien as Det. 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\'s henchman
• Harry Wilson as Spats\'s henchman
• Grace Lee Whitney as Rosella
• Beverly Wills as Dolores
• Barbara Drew as Nellie
• Edward G. Robinson, Jr. as Johnny Paradise

Adaptations

In 1972, a musical play based on the screenplay of the film, entitled Sugar, opened on Broadway, starring Elaine Joyce, Robert Morse, Tony Roberts and Cyril Ritchard, with book by Peter Stone, lyrics by Bob Merrill, and (all-new) music by Jule Styne. A 1991 production of this show in London featured Tommy Steele and retained the original title.

In 2002, Tony Curtis performed in a stage production of the film, portraying the character originally played by Joe E. Brown.

In 1975, Indian film director Narendra Bedi directed Rafoo Chakkar (U-Turned), a film majorly inspired by Some Like It Hot starring Indian actor Rishi Kapoor and actress Neetu Singh as the main stars.

Awards

The film won an Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White (Orry-Kelly) and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Jack Lemmon), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White, Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Best Director and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.

It won the Golden Globe for Best Comedy. Marilyn Monroe won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in Musical or Comedy, and Jack Lemmon for Best Actor in Musical or Comedy.

The film has been acclaimed worldwide as one of the greatest film comedies ever made. It ranked #1 on the American Film Institute\'s list of the greatest comedies as well as #14 on their list of the 100 best American films. In 1989, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant", going in the first year of voting. In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted it the 8th greatest comedy film of all time (see Total Film Magazine\'s List of the 50 Greatest Comedy Films of All Time).

Soundtrack

• I\'m Through With Love
  

by Gus Kahn, Matty Malneck, Jay Livingston
Performed by Marilyn Monroe

• I Wanna Be Loved By You
  

by Bert Kalmar, Herbert Wood, Harry Ruby
Performed by Marilyn Monroe

• Some Like It Hot
  

by Matty Malneck and I.A.L. Diamond
Performed by Marilyn Monroe

• Runnin\' Wild
  

by A.H. Gibbs, Joe Grey, Leo Wood
Performed by Marilyn Monroe

• Down Among the Sheltering Palms
  

by Olmar-Brockman

• Sugar Blues
  

by Williams-Fletcher

• By the Beautiful Sea
  

by Harry Carroll, Harold Atteridge

• Sweet Georgia Brown
  

by Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard, Kenneth Casey

• La Cumparsita
  

Written by Gerardo Matos Rodríguez

In popular culture

"Nobody\'s perfect!"

The film\'s last line has frequently been parodied:

• In the Torchwood episode "To the Last Man", as "Gwen: He\'s a frozen soldier from 1918. / Jack: [grinning] Nobody\'s perfect."
• In Independence Day, as "Albert Nimzicki: I\'m not Jewish. / Julius Levinson: Nobody\'s perfect."

See also

• Cross-dressing in film and television

External links

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:

Some Like It Hot

• Some Like It Hot at the Internet Movie Database
• Roger Ebert\'s review of Some Like It Hot
• Plot summary for Fanfaren der Liebe
• Literature

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