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    • Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American crime comedy film directed, produced and co-written 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 Th… See more

    Release dateMarch 19, 1959 (USA)
    Content ratingTV-PG
    GenreComedy · Music · Romance
    Directed byBilly Wilder
    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 … See more

    Cast

    Marilyn Monroe as Sugar "Kane" Kowalczyk, a ukulele player and singer
    Tony Curtis as Joe/"Josephine"/"Shell Oil Junior", a saxophone player
    Jack Lemmon as Jerry/"Daphne", a bassist… See more

    Production

    Billy Wilder wrote the script for the film with writer I. A. L. Diamond. The plot was based on a screenplay by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan for the 1935 French film Fanfare of Love. The original script for Fanfare of … See more

    Reception

    By 1962, Some Like It Hot had grossed $14 million in the US. According to The Numbers, the film ultimately grossed $25 million in the US. As of 2020, it had grossed over $83.2 million internationally.
    The film op… See more

    Adaptations

    An unsold television pilot was filmed by Mirisch Productions in 1961 featuring Vic Damone and Tina Louise. As a favor to the production company, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis agreed to film cameo appearanc… See more

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