Some Like It Hot
When two musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
- Director: Billy Wilder
- Genre:Comedy / Crime / Drama / Music / Romance / Thriller
- Runtime:117 minutes
Cast
Marilyn Monroe : Sugar Kane Kowalczyk
Tony Curtis : Joe – ‘Josephine’ / ‘Junior’
Jack Lemmon : Jerry – ‘Daphne’
George Raft : Spats Colombo
Pat O’Brien : Det. Mulligan
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Two struggling musicians, Joe and Jerry (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon), witness what looks like the Saint Valentine’s Day massacre of 1929. When the Chicago gangsters, directed by ‘Spats’ Columbo (George Raft), see them, the duo flee for their lives. They escape and decide to leave town, only to find the sole out-of-town jobs available are in an all-girl musical band headed to Florida. The two disguise themselves as women, calling themselves Josephine and Geraldine (later Jerry changes his pseudonym to Daphne), join the band and board a train. Joe and Jerry both become enamored of “Sugar Kane” (Marilyn Monroe), the band’s vocalist and ukulele player, and struggle for her affection while maintaining their disguises.
In Florida, Joe woos Sugar by assuming a second disguise as a millionaire named “Junior”, the heir to Shell Oil, while mimicking Cary Grant’s voice. An actual millionaire, Osgood Fielding III (Joe E. Brown), becomes enamored of Jerry in his Daphne guise. One night Osgood asks Daphne out to his yacht. Joe convinces Daphne to keep Osgood ashore while he goes on the yacht with Sugar. That night Osgood proposes to Daphne who, in a state of excitement, accepts, believing he can finagle a large settlement from Osgood immediately following their wedding ceremony.
When the mobsters arrive at the same hotel for a conference honoring “Friends of Italian Opera”, Spats and his gang see Joe and Jerry. After several humorous chases (and witnessing yet another mob murder), Jerry, Joe, Sugar, and Osgood escape to the millionaire’s yacht. Enroute, Sugar tells Joe that she’s in love with him and not with “Junior”. Jerry, for his part, tries to explain to Osgood that he cannot marry him, but Osgood is oblivious to all of Jerry’s objections and remains determined—to the very end—to go through with the marriage; finally, Jerry removes the wig and yells, “I’m a man!”, prompting Osgood to utter the film’s memorable last line “Well, nobody’s perfect.” Read more
