Cindy and Marty talk about another favorite comedy by director Billy Wilder, Some Like It Hot with Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, and its contemporary influence about gender roles and expectations. 

Some Like It Hot (1959)

·       Director: Billy Wilder; Writers: Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond (from Robert Thoeren & Michael Logan’s story)

·       Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon; with Joe E. Brown, George Raft, Pat O’Brien

·       Studio/Distributor: The Mirisch Company / United Artists

·       Runtime: ~121 minutes; Format: B&W; Setting: Prohibition-era Chicago & 'Miami' (filmed at Hotel del Coronado)

Brief Synopsis

Two Chicago musicians witness a mob hit and escape by disguising themselves as women to join an all-female band headed to Florida, where romantic entanglements, mob reprisals, and comic mayhem ensue — culminating in one of cinema’s most famous closing lines: “Nobody’s perfect.”

Why This Film Matters

·       AFI ranks it #1 on the 100 Years…100 Laughs list. https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100-laughs/ 

·       A landmark of screen comedy that playfully subverts gender roles and skirted the Production Code’s strictures.

·       Iconic location work at the Hotel del Coronado standing in for Miami’s 'Seminole Ritz.'

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