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Some Like It Hot (1959)

NR03/19/1959Comedy, Romance, Crime2h 2m
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The movie too HOT for words!

Overview

Two musicians witness a mob hit and need to quickly find a way out of Chicago. Their only opportunity comes in the form of joining an all-girl band as they prepare to leave on a tour. The two disguise themselves as women and struggle to keep their identities secret as the gangsters close in.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Tony Curtis

    Joe (Josephine)

  2. Cast 1

    Jack Lemmon

    Jerry (Daphne)

  3. Cast 1

    Marilyn Monroe

    Sugar Kane Kowalczyk

  4. Cast 1

    George Raft

    Spats Colombo

  5. Cast 1

    Pat O'Brien

    Detective Mulligan

  6. Cast 1

    Joe E. Brown

    Osgood Fielding III

  7. Cast 1

    Nehemiah Persoff

    Little Bonaparte

  8. Cast 1

    Joan Shawlee

    Sweet Sue

  9. Billy Gray

    Sig Poliakoff

I really don't get the comedy here. Curtis and Lemmon dress up as showgirls to avoid the mob. That's good for a five minute sketch, but not a full length movie. And that's the problem. It is stretched out to be an ordeal. For some reason, some guy likes Lemmon as a woman, and Lemmon avoids him. And for some reason, Curtis likes a relatively plain showgirl (Marilyn Monroe was always a "woman's woman", not in the league with the beauties of Hollywood, which was her appeal, being the "girl next door" instead of "the girl you wanted next door" Dawn Welles or Raquel Welch. But who is lucky enou...