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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.
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.
Some Like It Hot (1959) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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 (Tony Curtis) and his long-suffering buddy, Jerry (Jack Lemmon), improvise a quick plan to...
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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.
Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an all-girl band as they leave on a tour.
The story of two down-and-out musicians fleeing from the mob by disguising themselves as women in an all-female band headed to Florida offered plum roles for stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, as well as memorable character roles for Joe E. Brown, George Raft and Pat O'Brien.
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.”
