SOME LIKE IT HOT

Billy Wilder

1959

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"Some Like It Hot is a 1959 comedy film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon. Some Like It Hot tells the story of two struggling musicians, Joe and Jerry (Curtis and Lemmon), who are on the run from a Chicago gang after witnessing the Saint Valentine's Day massacre of 1929. Spats Columbo (Raft), the gangster in charge, orders the execution of Jerry and Joe. They escape in the confusion and decide to leave town, but the only out-of-town job they can find is in an all-girl band. The two disguise themselves as women and call themselves Josephine and Geraldine (later Jerry changes it to Daphne). They join the band and go to Florida by train. Joe and Jerry both fall for "Sugar Kane" Kowalczyk (Monroe), the band's sexy Polish-American vocalist and ukulele player, and fight for her affection while maintaining their disguises. In Florida, Joe woos Sugar by assuming a second disguise as a millionaire (claiming to be "Junior", the heir to Shell Oil, and mimicking Cary Grant's voice), while an actual millionaire, Osgood Fielding III (Brown), falls for Jerry in his Daphne guise. One night Osgood asks Jerry/Daphne out to his yacht. Joe convinces Jerry/Daphne to keep Osgood ashore while he goes on his yacht with Sugar. That night Osgood proposes to Daphne/Jerry who, in a state of excitement, accepts. The mob eventually finds Joe and Jerry again, when they arrive at the same hotel for a conference honoring "Friends of Italian Opera". After several humorous chases (and witnessing yet another mob rubout), Jerry, Joe, Sugar, and Osgood escape to the millionaire's yacht. Enroute, Sugar tells Joe she's in love with him, not with Junior. Jerry tries to explain Osgood that he can't marry him for many different reasons, all of which Osgood seems oblivious to. Eventually Jerry/Daphne produces his trump card, pulling off his wig and saying "I'm a man!". Thereupon Osgood simply utters the immortal line "Well, nobody's perfect"."[1]

In 2000, the American Film Institute listed Some Like It Hot as the greatest American comedy film of all time.





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