Some Like It Hot. 1959. Directed by Billy Wilder

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Some Like It Hot. 1959. USA. Directed by Billy Wilder. Courtesy Park Circus/Warner Brothers

Some Like It Hot. 1959. USA. Directed by Billy Wilder. Screenplay by Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond, based on a story by Robert Thoeren, Michael Logan. With Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown. 4K DCP. 121 min.

“Nobody’s perfect,” uttered Joe E. Brown in one of the most famous final lines in film history. And yet, Some Like It Hot might just be the perfect comedy. Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon play a pair of Prohibition-era musicians who go on the lam after an unlucky run-in with the murderous Chicago mob by dressing in drag and infiltrating an all-female band. As they head to Miami, their escape quickly turns into a cat-and-mouse adventure that will lead them to true love—only not the one they were expecting. For her performance as Sugar Kane, the band’s heartbroken vocalist and ukulele player for whom both friends quickly find themselves in competition, Marilyn Monroe garnered a much-deserved Golden Globe.

This film accompanies Marilyn Monroe: Celluloid Dream.

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