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Some Like It Hot

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Some Like It Hot

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1959 film directed by Billy Wilder

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*Some Like It Hot* is a 1959 American black-and-white film directed by Billy Wilder, who also served as producer and co-screenwriter with I. A. L. Diamond. The cast includes Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, and George Raft. Produced by The Mirisch Company and distributed by United Artists, the film was shot in San Diego with narrative locations in the Miami metropolitan area and Chicago. Adolph Deutsch composed the music, and Arthur P. Schmidt edited the film.

The movie has a runtime of 120 minutes and is classified as a screwball comedy, musical, crime, and LGBTQ-related film. It received a box office revenue of $25,000,000 against a budget of $2,900,000. The film was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, and it received the National Board of Review: Top Ten Films award. It holds an IMDb rating of 8.2 and a TMDb vote average of 8.1.

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Film · TMDB

8.1

In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in.

Released: 1959-03-19123 minDir: Billy WilderComedy, Romance, CrimeBudget: $2.9MBox office: $25.0M
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Cast

  • Tony Curtis as Joe (Josephine)
  • Jack Lemmon as Jerry (Daphne)
  • Marilyn Monroe as Sugar Kane Kowalczyk
  • George Raft as Spats Colombo
  • Pat O'Brien as Detective Mulligan
  • Joe E. Brown as Osgood Fielding III

Themes

  • chicago, illinois
  • florida
  • transvestism
  • musician
  • fake identity
  • deception
  • on the run
  • mafia
  • cross dressing
  • black and white

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Ratings

IMDb

8.2/10

304,449 votes

Year
1959
Runtime
121 min
Genres
Comedy, Music, Romance

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Encyclopedic overview

The film's trailer Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American crime comedy film produced, co-written and directed 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. The screenplay by 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. Set in the Prohibition era, the film is about two musicians (Curtis and Lemmon) who disguise themselves as women to escape Chicago mobsters they witnessed commit murder.

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, winning for Best Costume Design. 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".

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