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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.
A super-sized, all-out song-and-dance spectacular! Set in Chicago when Prohibition has everyone thirsty for a little excitement, SOME LIKE IT HOT is the “glorious, big, high-kicking” (Associated Press) story of two musicians forced to flee the Windy City after witnessing a mob hit.
After witnessing a Mafia murder, slick saxophone player Joe and his long-suffering buddy, Jerry, improvise a quick plan to escape from Chicago with their lives. Disguising themselves as women, they join an all-female jazz band and hop a train bound for sunny Florida.
After witnessing a Mafia murder, slick saxophone player Joe (Tony Curtis) and his long-suffering buddy, Jerry (Jack Lemmon), improvise a quick plan to...
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Some Like It Hot (1959) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
After witnessing a mob hit, Chicago musicians Joe and Jerry (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, in landmark performances) skip town by donning drag and joining an all-female band en route to Miami.
Aug 22, 2017 · For a frantic farce about two cross-dressers on the run from prohibition-era mobsters, Some Like It Hot is a strikingly personal, even semi-autobiographical film.
Jul 26, 2023 · Some Like It Hot is nothing short of glorious: Marilyn Monroe’s Sugar Kane Kowalczyk is the lead singer of a roaring-20s, all-girl band infiltrated by two male musicians in drag,...
When two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
Dec 18, 1989 · What helps Some Like It Hot rise above its 2600-year-history is the combination of Wilder and Diamond’s wise-cracking dialogue and Marilyn Monroe’s powerful performance as Sugar Kane (née Kawalchick), a singer in the all-girl orchestra, “Sweet Sue and her Society Syncopators.”
