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Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American crime comedy film directed, produced and co-written by Billy Wilder.It stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, with George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee and Nehemiah Persoff in supporting roles.
Synopsis. It is February 1929 in the city of Chicago. Joe is a jazz saxophone player, irresponsible gambler and ladies' man; his friend Jerry is a sensible jazz double-bass player. They accidentally witness the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre. When the gangsters, led by "Spats" Colombo, spot them, the two run for their lives.
Aug 22, 2017 · Nicholas Barber explains why. In 1958, Tony Curtis was at a Hollywood party when Billy Wilder took him aside. Wilder was planning a film about two musicians who dress up as women to join an all ...
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- THE QUINTESSENTIAL AMERICAN COMEDY WAS INSPIRED BY A DRY GERMAN REMAKE OF A FRENCH FARCE. The seed that bloomed into Some Like It Hot was planted by an obscure 1951 German film, Fanfaren der Liebe (Fanfares of Love), which was a remake of an older French comedy, Fanfares d’Amour (1935).
- BILLY WILDER BUCKED ALL CONVENTION TO MAKE GANGLAND MASSACRE VITAL TO A COMEDY. When Wilder and Diamond began writing, Wilder knew they needed to “find the hammerlock of the story, the ironclad thing in which these two guys trapped in women’s clothing cannot just take off their wigs and say, ‘I’m a guy.’”
- SOME LIKE IT HOT ALMOST BOASTED MARILYN MONROE AND FRANK SINATRA. With the plot locked down, attention turned to casting. Names thrown around for the roles of Joe/Josephine and Jerry/Daphne included Danny Kaye and Bob Hope.
- BILLY WILDER AND MARILYN MONROE WERE THE BEST OF FRENEMIES. The biggest piece of Some Like It Hot casting was, hands down, Marilyn Monroe in the role of singer/ukulele player/saxophonist lover Sugar Kane.
Apr 10, 2024 · Lead actor (Jack Lemmon) Lee Pfeiffer. Some Like It Hot, American screwball comedy film, released in 1959, that is considered one of best in that genre. Some Like It Hot featured Marilyn Monroe as a “dumb blonde” and Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon as women. Curtis and Lemmon played down-on-their luck musicians who are marked for death by a.
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Jan 27, 2022 · "Some Like It Hot" feels like a modern retelling of a Shakespearan comedy, a film filled with elaborate costumes, constant crossing of social classes and gender identity, cross-dressing, mistaken ...
Jul 31, 2023 · Some Like It Hot (1959) is a comedy film by famed director Billy Wilder, who also directed titles such as Double Indemnity (1944) and The Apartment (1960). The film is centered on two. Chicago musicians Joe (Tony Curtis), and Jerry (Jack Lemmon). They witness a murder in the speakeasy they perform in and decide to flee to Florida in order to ...
