1959 ‧ Comedy/Romance ‧ 2h 1m
Some Like It Hot, starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, was voted as the top comedy film by the American Film Institute and selected best comedy of all time in a poll conducted by the BBC. The 1959 film was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Actor, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay and won for Best Costume Design. In the Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy category of the Golden Globes, Jack Lemmon won Best Actor, Marilyn Monroe won Best Actress, and the film won best motion picture.
In 1989, Some Like It Hot became one of the first 25 films inducted into the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
The story revolves around two Chicago musicians, Joe (Curtis) and Jerry (Lemmon), who witness the St. Valentine's Day massacre. Desperate to get out of town, they accept a job with a band on its way to Florida -- an all-girl band -- and they dress as women, calling themselves "Josephine" and "Daphne." When they get to Florida, Joe adopts yet another disguise, this time as a wealthy bachelor, and attempts to woo the band's lead singer, Sugar Kane (Monroe). Meanwhile, Osgood (Joe E. Brown), an actual wealthy bachelor, is interested in "Daphne." Mayhem ensues as the two men try to keep their true identities hidden and Spats Colombo (George Raft) and his crew, who were responsible for the massacre, show up for a meeting with several other crime lords.
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