Some Like it Hot
SOME LIKE IT HOT (PG)
D: Billy Wilder
United Artists/Mirisch (Billy Wilder)
US 1959
120 mins
Comedy/Musical/Crime
W: Billy Wilder & I. A. L.
Diamond [based on the screenplay "Fanfares Of Love" by Robert Thoeren & M. Logan]
DP: Charles Lang, Jr.
Ed: Arthur Schmidt
Mus: Adolph Deutsch
PD: Ted Haworth
Cos: Orry-Kelly
Jack Lemmon (Jerry/Daphne), Tony
Curtis (Joe/Josephine), Marilyn Monroe (Sugar Kane Kowalczyk), George Raft (Spats Colombo), Pat O'Brien (Mulligan), Joe E. Brown (Osgood E. Fielding
III)
In Billy Wilder's classic comedy, Jack Lemmon &
Tony Curtis play two jazz musicians who inadvertently witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Pursued by the mob, they take cover by disguising themselves as women and join a
travelling all-female troupe where they both have eyes for the sizzling Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe).
The trio of main performances are fantastic,
especially Marilyn Monroe who delivers her best ever screen performance.
The cross-dressing comedy theme has been done since
(La Cage Aux Folles, Tootsie, Mrs. Doubtfire) but none of the films compare to the excellence of Some Like It Hot.
The most shocking thing is that it failed to be
nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award, arguably the biggest Oscars snub of all time.
Well.. Nobody's perfect, I guess.
10/10
