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Some Like It Hot

1959 film directed by Billy Wilder

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"Some Like It Hot" is a 1959 comedy directed by Billy Wilder about two musicians who disguise themselves as women to escape gangsters. The film is widely regarded as one of the greatest comedies ever made, known for its clever humor, memorable performances, and innovative approach to the genre.

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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, Crime

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

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Key dates

Published: 17 September 1959

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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".