One of the best comedies ever made – period. The triage of Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon directed by Billy Wilder from a script by Wilder and I.A.L.Diamond is film-goers manna from heaven.
On the run from the Chicago mob, Curtis and Lemmon take refuge in a jazz orchestra heading for a Miami residency. Only it’s an all-female band. With legs shaved, wigs perched, Curtis finds gold-digger Monroe all a little too tempting to stick to the script. Meanwhile, Daphne (Jack Lemmon) needs to fight off advances from randy billionaire, Joe E. Brown.
Script, performances, pacing: quirky, sexy, subversive – Some Like It Hot has it all – and more.
Based loosely on a 1935 French farce, Fanfare d’amour, by German screenwriters Michael Logan and Robert Thoeren, Some Like It Hot was nominated for only 6 Oscars (and not best film) at the 1960 awards – and won only one (Orry-Kelly) for costume design in a black and white film.
Rating: 91%
Director: Billy Wilder (The Apartment, Sunset Boulevard)
Writer: Billy Wilder (The Apartment, Sunset Boulevard), I.A.L. Diamond (The Apartment, The Fortune Cookie) – based on a 1935 French farce by Michael Logan and Robert Thoeren
Main cast: Marilyn Monroe (The Seven Year Itch, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), Tony Curtis (The Defiant Ones, Spartacus), Jack Lemmon (The Apartment, Missing)
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