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Some Like It Hot
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.
Plot
In Prohibition-era Chicago, Joe is a jazz saxophone player and an irresponsible, impulsive gambler and ladies' man; Jerry, his anxious friend, is a jazz double bass player. They work in a speakeasy owned by local Mafia boss "Spats" Colombo. Tipped off by informant "Toothpick" Charlie, the police raid the joint. Joe and Jerry escape, but accidentally witness Spats and his henchmen gunning down Toothpick and his gang in revenge (an incident inspired by the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre). Spats and his gang see them as they flee. Broke, terrified, and desperate to leave Chicago, Joe and Jerry disguise themselves as women named Josephine and Daphne so they can join Sweet Sue and her Society Syncopators, an all-female band headed to Miami by train. On the train, they befriend Sugar Kane, the band's vocalist and ukulele player.
Awards
Cast
- Beverly Wills
- Billy Gray
- Dave Barry
- Edward G. Robinson Jr.
- Franklyn Farnum
- Fred Sherman
- George E. Stone
- George Raft
- Grace Lee Whitney
- Hank Mann
- Harry Wilson
- Jack Lemmon
- Joan Shawlee
- Joe E. Brown
- Joe Gray
- Marilyn Monroe
- Mike Mazurki
- Nehemiah Persoff
- Pat O'Brien
- Paul Frees
- Tito Vuolo
- Tom Kennedy
- Tony Curtis
- William H. O'Brien