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Some Like It Hot
Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American crime comedy film produced, co-written and directed 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 Thoeren and Michael Logan from the 1935 French film Fanfare of Love. Set in the Prohibition era, the film is about two musicians (Curtis and Lemmon) who disguise themselves as women to escape Chicago mobsters they witnessed commit murder.
Some Like It Hot opened to critical and commercial success and is considered to be one of the greatest films of all time. The film received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Actor, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, winning for Best Costume Design. In 1989, the Library of Congress selected it as one of the first 25 films for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
The Production Code had been gradually weakening in its scope since the early 1950s, owing to greater social tolerance for taboo topics in film, but it was enforced until the mid-1960s. The overwhelming success of Some Like It Hot is considered one of the reasons behind the retirement of the code.
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 boss "Spats" Colombo. Tipped off by informant "Toothpick" Charlie, the police raid the joint. Joe and Jerry escape, but accidentally witness Spats and his henchmen gunning down Toothpick and his gang in revenge (an incident inspired by the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre). Spats and his gang see them as they flee. Broke, terrified, and desperate to leave Chicago, Joe and Jerry disguise themselves as women named Josephine and Daphne so they can join Sweet Sue and her Society Syncopators, an all-female band headed to Miami by train. On the train, they befriend Sugar Kane, the band's vocalist and ukulele player.
The two musicians become obsessed with Sugar and compete for her affections while maintaining their disguises. Sugar confides to Josephine that she has sworn off saxophone players, who have taken advantage of her in the past, and hopes to find a gentle, bespectacled millionaire in Florida. Josephine and Daphne become close friends with Sugar during a late-night party on the train, and struggle to remember that flirting with her would compromise their cover.
After arriving in Miami, Joe woos Sugar by posing as Junior, heir to the Shell Oil fortune, affecting a Cary Grant-esque accent while feigning indifference to her. Aging, multi-divorcee Osgood Fielding III – an actual millionaire – persistently pursues Daphne, whose refusals only fuel his desire. After Osgood invites Daphne to dinner on his yacht, Josephine convinces her to keep him occupied onshore, so that Junior can pass it off as his own and entertain Sugar. He tells Sugar that psychological trauma from the death of a former lover has left him impotent, but that he would immediately marry anyone who could cure him. Sugar tries to arouse him, with considerable success. Meanwhile, Daphne and Osgood dance until dawn. Back at the hotel, Daphne announces that she has accepted Osgood's proposal of marriage – anticipating a divorce and cash settlement when the ruse is revealed – but Josephine convinces her not to go through with it.
The hotel hosts a conference for the Friends of Italian Opera Society, a front for a national Mafia meeting, presided over by Little Bonaparte - who already has a grudge against Spats over the murder of Toothpick. Spats and his men arrive, and this time recognize Josephine and Daphne as the witnesses they'd been looking for. Fearing for their lives, the pair decide to cut and run. Junior breaks up with Sugar over the telephone, telling her that he must marry a woman of his father's choosing and move to Venezuela, leaving her heartbroken. As the two try to leave the hotel in male disguises, they accidentally witness Little Bonaparte's execution of Spats and his gang for bungling the situation in Chicago, and revert to women's clothing to evade capture. On the way out, Josephine sees Sugar onstage singing a lament to lost love, kisses her, then rejoins Daphne in their flight. Sugar realizes that Josephine and Junior are the same person, and follows them.
Daphne persuades Osgood to take her and Josephine away on his yacht, and Sugar unexpectedly joins them on his launch just as it leaves the dock. Removing his disguise, Joe confesses to Sugar and tells her that she deserves better, but she wants him anyway, realizing he is the first man to genuinely care for her. Meanwhile, Daphne tries to get out of her engagement, offering escalating half-true reasons why she and Osgood cannot marry, none of which dissuade him. Exasperated, Jerry rips off his wig and says "I'm a man!" in his normal voice. Still smiling, Osgood replies "Well, nobody's perfect!" confounding Jerry and leaving him speechless.
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Some Like It Hot
Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American crime comedy film produced, co-written and directed 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 Thoeren and Michael Logan from the 1935 French film Fanfare of Love. Set in the Prohibition era, the film is about two musicians (Curtis and Lemmon) who disguise themselves as women to escape Chicago mobsters they witnessed commit murder.
Some Like It Hot opened to critical and commercial success and is considered to be one of the greatest films of all time. The film received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Actor, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, winning for Best Costume Design. In 1989, the Library of Congress selected it as one of the first 25 films for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
The Production Code had been gradually weakening in its scope since the early 1950s, owing to greater social tolerance for taboo topics in film, but it was enforced until the mid-1960s. The overwhelming success of Some Like It Hot is considered one of the reasons behind the retirement of the code.
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 boss "Spats" Colombo. Tipped off by informant "Toothpick" Charlie, the police raid the joint. Joe and Jerry escape, but accidentally witness Spats and his henchmen gunning down Toothpick and his gang in revenge (an incident inspired by the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre). Spats and his gang see them as they flee. Broke, terrified, and desperate to leave Chicago, Joe and Jerry disguise themselves as women named Josephine and Daphne so they can join Sweet Sue and her Society Syncopators, an all-female band headed to Miami by train. On the train, they befriend Sugar Kane, the band's vocalist and ukulele player.
The two musicians become obsessed with Sugar and compete for her affections while maintaining their disguises. Sugar confides to Josephine that she has sworn off saxophone players, who have taken advantage of her in the past, and hopes to find a gentle, bespectacled millionaire in Florida. Josephine and Daphne become close friends with Sugar during a late-night party on the train, and struggle to remember that flirting with her would compromise their cover.
After arriving in Miami, Joe woos Sugar by posing as Junior, heir to the Shell Oil fortune, affecting a Cary Grant-esque accent while feigning indifference to her. Aging, multi-divorcee Osgood Fielding III – an actual millionaire – persistently pursues Daphne, whose refusals only fuel his desire. After Osgood invites Daphne to dinner on his yacht, Josephine convinces her to keep him occupied onshore, so that Junior can pass it off as his own and entertain Sugar. He tells Sugar that psychological trauma from the death of a former lover has left him impotent, but that he would immediately marry anyone who could cure him. Sugar tries to arouse him, with considerable success. Meanwhile, Daphne and Osgood dance until dawn. Back at the hotel, Daphne announces that she has accepted Osgood's proposal of marriage – anticipating a divorce and cash settlement when the ruse is revealed – but Josephine convinces her not to go through with it.
The hotel hosts a conference for the Friends of Italian Opera Society, a front for a national Mafia meeting, presided over by Little Bonaparte - who already has a grudge against Spats over the murder of Toothpick. Spats and his men arrive, and this time recognize Josephine and Daphne as the witnesses they'd been looking for. Fearing for their lives, the pair decide to cut and run. Junior breaks up with Sugar over the telephone, telling her that he must marry a woman of his father's choosing and move to Venezuela, leaving her heartbroken. As the two try to leave the hotel in male disguises, they accidentally witness Little Bonaparte's execution of Spats and his gang for bungling the situation in Chicago, and revert to women's clothing to evade capture. On the way out, Josephine sees Sugar onstage singing a lament to lost love, kisses her, then rejoins Daphne in their flight. Sugar realizes that Josephine and Junior are the same person, and follows them.
Daphne persuades Osgood to take her and Josephine away on his yacht, and Sugar unexpectedly joins them on his launch just as it leaves the dock. Removing his disguise, Joe confesses to Sugar and tells her that she deserves better, but she wants him anyway, realizing he is the first man to genuinely care for her. Meanwhile, Daphne tries to get out of her engagement, offering escalating half-true reasons why she and Osgood cannot marry, none of which dissuade him. Exasperated, Jerry rips off his wig and says "I'm a man!" in his normal voice. Still smiling, Osgood replies "Well, nobody's perfect!" confounding Jerry and leaving him speechless.