Synopsis
Prohibition Era (1920-1933). Joe and Jerry are two struggling musicians forced to flee after witnessing a gangland shootout. Unable to find work and pursued by the mob, they decide to dress as women and play in an all-female orchestra. Joe (Curtis), in order to win over Sugar Kane (Monroe), the group’s singer, pretends to be an impotent tycoon; meanwhile, Jerry (Lemmon) is courted by a millionaire who wants to marry him.
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Awards
1960, Oscar: Award for Best Costume Design in Black and White
1960, BAFTA: Award for Best Foreign Actor (Jack Lemmon)
1960, Golden Globes:
- Award for Best Comedy Film
- Award for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical (Marilyn Monroe)
- Award for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical (Jack Lemmon)
Data sheet
Original title: Some Like it Hot
Direction: Billy Wilder
Screenplay: Billy Wilder, I.A.L Diamond, Robert Thoeren
Photography: Charles Lang
Edition: Arthur P. Schmidt
Music: Adolph Deutsch
Production Design: Boris Grinsson
Costume design: Bert Henrikson, Orry-Kelly
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon
Production: United Artist
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Billy Wilder
Born in 1906 in Sucha, he began his career as a journalist in Vienna and Berlin, from where he was forced to flee following Hitler’s rise to power and went into exile in the United States. In Hollywood, he became one of Paramount’s leading screenwriters; he wrote nearly seventy screenplays before turning to directing ‘in self-defence’, a period during which he made 26 films that earned him seven Oscars and twenty-one nominations. After a career that lasted until 1981, he continued to write until the end of his life, before dying at the age of 95 in Beverly Hills.
Selected filmography
The Front Page (1974)
One, Two, Three (1961)
The Apartment (1960)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Sabrina (1954)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Days of Being Wild (1945)
