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'''''Some Like It Hot''''' is a 1959 American [[romantic comedy film]] set in 1929, directed and produced by [[Billy Wilder]], starring [[Marilyn Monroe]], [[Tony Curtis]], and [[Jack Lemmon]]. The supporting cast includes [[George Raft]], [[Pat O'Brien (actor)|Pat O'Brien]], [[Joe E. Brown]], [[Joan Shawlee]], and [[Nehemiah Persoff]]. The screenplay by [[Billy Wilder]] and [[I.A.L. Diamond]] is based on a screenplay by Billy Wilder and Michael Logan from the French film ''[[Fanfare of Love]]''. The film is about two musicians who dress in [[Drag (clothing)|drag]] in order to escape from [[American mafia|mafia]] [[gangsters]] whom they witnessed commit a crime inspired by the [[Saint Valentine's Day Massacre]]. The film was produced in [[black and white]], even though [[color]] films were increasing in popularity.
''Some Like It Hot'' opened to largely positive reviews and is today considered to be one of the greatest film comedies of all time. It was voted as the top comedy film by the [[American Film Institute]] on their list on AFI's ''100 Years... 100 Laughs'' poll in 2000. The film is also notable for featuring cross dressing, and for playing with the idea of [[homosexuality]], which led to its being produced without approval from the [[Motion Picture Production Code]]. The code had been gradually weakening in its scope during the early 1950s, due to increasing social tolerance for previously taboo topics in film, but it was still officially enforced. The overwhelming success of ''Some Like It Hot'' is considered one of the final nails in the coffin for the [[Hays Code]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93301189|title=Remembering Hollywood's Hays Code, 40 Years On|author=|date=8 August 2008|work=NPR.org|accessdate=14 March 2016}}</ref>
==Plot==
It is February 1929 in the city of [[Chicago]], during the era of [[Prohibition in the United States|prohibition]]. Joe ([[Tony Curtis]]) is an irresponsible jazz saxophone player, gambler and ladies' man; his friend Jerry ([[Jack Lemmon]]) is a sensible jazz double-bass player; both are working in a [[speakeasy]] (disguised as a [[funeral home]]) owned by [[mafia|mob]] gangster "Spats" Colombo ([[George Raft]]). When the joint is raided by the police after being tipped off by informant "Toothpick" Charlie ([[George E. Stone]]), Joe and Jerry flee—only to accidentally witness Spats and his henchmen exacting his revenge on "Toothpick" and his own gang (inspired by the real-life [[Saint Valentine's Day Massacre]]). Penniless and in a mad rush to get out of town, the two musicians take a job with Sweet Sue ([[Joan Shawlee]]) and her Society Syncopators, an all-female band headed to [[Miami]]. [[Drag (clothing)|Disguised as women]] and renaming themselves Josephine and Daphne, they board a train with the band and their male manager, Bienstock. Before they board the train, Joe and Jerry notice Sugar Kane ([[Marilyn Monroe]]), the band's vocalist and ukulele player.
Joe and Jerry become enamored of Sugar and compete for her affection while maintaining their disguises. Sugar confides that she has sworn off male saxophone players, who have stolen her heart in the past and left her with "the fuzzy end of the lollipop". She has set her sights on finding a sweet, bespectacled millionaire in Florida. During the forbidden drinking and partying on the train, Josephine and Daphne become intimate friends with Sugar, and have to struggle to remember that they are supposed to be girls and cannot make a pass at her.
Once in Miami, Joe woos Sugar by assuming a second disguise as a millionaire named Junior, the heir to [[Shell Oil]], while feigning disinterest in Sugar. An actual millionaire, the much-married aging mama's boy Osgood Fielding III, ([[Joe E. Brown]]) tries repeatedly to pick up Daphne, who rebuffs him. Osgood invites Daphne for a champagne supper on his yacht. Joe convinces Daphne to keep Osgood occupied onshore so that Junior can take Sugar to Osgood's yacht, passing it off as his. Once on the yacht, Junior explains to Sugar that, due to psychological trauma, he is impotent and frigid, but that he would marry anyone who could change that. Sugar tries to arouse some sexual response in Junior, and begins to succeed. Meanwhile, Daphne and Osgood dance the tango ("[[La Cumparsita]]") till dawn. When Joe and Jerry get back to the hotel, Jerry explains that Osgood has proposed marriage to Daphne and that he, as Daphne, has accepted, anticipating an instant divorce and huge cash settlement when his ruse is revealed. Joe convinces Jerry that he cannot actually marry Osgood.
The hotel hosts a conference for "Friends of Italian Opera", which is in fact a front for a major meeting of various branches of [[La Cosa Nostra]]. Spats and his gang from Chicago recognize Joe and Jerry as the witnesses to the Valentine's Day murders. Joe and Jerry, fearing for their lives, realize they must quit the band and leave the hotel. Joe breaks Sugar's heart by telling her that he, Junior, has to marry a woman of his father's choosing and move to [[Venezuela]]. After several chases, Joe and Jerry witness additional mob killings, this time of Spats and his boys. Joe, dressed as Josephine, sees Sugar onstage singing that she will never love again. He kisses her before he leaves, and Sugar realizes that Joe is both Josephine and Junior.
Sugar runs from the stage at the end of her performance and manages to jump into the launch from Osgood's yacht ''New Caledonia'' just as it is leaving the dock with Joe, Jerry, and Osgood. Joe tells Sugar that he is not good enough for her, that she would be getting the "fuzzy end of the lollipop" yet again, but Sugar wants him anyway. Jerry, for his part, comes up with a list of reasons why he and Osgood cannot get married, ranging from a smoking habit to infertility. Osgood dismisses them all; he loves Daphne and is determined to go through with the marriage. Exasperated, Jerry removes his wig and shouts, "I'm a man!" Osgood simply responds, "Well, nobody's perfect."
==Cast==
[[File:Monroe and Curtis in Some Like it Hot.JPG|thumb|Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe in ''Some Like It Hot'']]
* [[Marilyn Monroe]] as Sugar "Kane" Kowalczyk, a ukulele player and singer
* [[Tony Curtis]] as Joe/"Josephine"/"Shell Oil Junior", a saxophone player
* [[Jack Lemmon]] as Jerry (Gerald)/"Daphne", a double bass player
* [[George Raft]] as "Spats" Colombo, a mobster from Chicago
* [[Pat O'Brien (actor)|Pat O'Brien]] as Detective Mulligan
* [[Joe E. Brown]] as Osgood Fielding III
* [[Nehemiah Persoff]] as "Little Bonaparte," a mobster
* [[Joan Shawlee]] as Sweet Sue, the bandleader of "Sweet Sue and Her Society Syncopators"
* [[Dave Barry (actor)|Dave Barry]] as Mister Beinstock, the band manager for "Sweet Sue and Her Society Syncopators"
* [[Billy Gray (comedian)|Billy Gray]] as Sig Poliakoff, Joe and Jerry's agent in Chicago
* Barbara Drew as Nellie Weinmeyer, Poliakoff's secretary
* [[George E. Stone]] as "Toothpick" Charlie, a gangster who is killed by "Spats" Colombo
* [[Mike Mazurki]] as Spats's henchman
* [[Harry Wilson (actor)|Harry Wilson]] as Spats's henchman
* [[Edward G. Robinson Jr.]] as Johnny Paradise, a gangster who kills "Spats" Colombo
* Beverly Wills as Dolores, a trombone player, and Sugar's apartment friend
* Al Breneman as the fresh bellboy (uncredited){{citation needed|date=April 2017}}
* [[Tito Vuolo]] as Mr. Mozzarella, funeral director (uncredited){{citation needed|date=February 2017}}
* [[Tom Kennedy (actor)|Tom Kennedy]] as Mozzarella's bouncer (uncredited){{citation needed|date=February 2016}}
* [[Grace Lee Whitney]] as Rosella (uncredited)
==Soundtrack==
The soundtrack features 4 songs performed by Marilyn Monroe for the movie, 9 songs composed by Adolph Deutsch, as well as 2 songs performed by [[jazz]] artist [[Matty Malneck]].<ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/album/some-like-it-hot-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-mw0000652193 Some Like It Hot [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] - Original Soundtrack _ Songs, Reviews, Credits _ AllMusic]</ref>
{{Track listing
| title1 = [[Runnin' Wild (1922 song)|Runnin' Wild]]
| note1 = [[Marilyn Monroe]]
| length1 = 1:07
| title2 = Medley: Sugar Blues/Running Wild
| note2 = [[Adolph Deutsch]] & His Orchestra
| length2 = 1:32
| title3 = Down Among the Sheltering Palms
| note3 = Adolph Deutsch & His Orchestra
| length3 = 1:59
| title4 = Randolph Street Rag
| note4 = Adolph Deutsch
| length4 = 1:28
| title5 = [[I Wanna Be Loved By You]]
| note5 = Marilyn Monroe
| length5 = 2:58
| title6 = Park Avenue Fantasy
| note6 = Adolph Deutsch & His Orchestra
| length6 = 3:34
| title7 = Medley: Down Among the Sheltering Palms / La Cumparsita / I Wanna Be Loved By You
| note7 = Adolph Deutsch & His Orchestra
| length7 = 2:20
| title8 = I'm Thru With Love
| note8 = Marilyn Monroe
| length8 = 2:34
| title9 = Medley: Sugar Blues / Tell the Whole Damn World
| note9 = Adolph Deutsch & His Orchestra
| length9 = 3:25
| title10 = Play It Again Charlie
| note10 = Adolph Deutsch
| length10 = 1:49
| title11 = Sweet Georgia Brown
| note11 = [[Matty Malneck]] & His Orchestra
| length11 = 2:57
| title12 = By the Beautiful Sea
| note12 = Adolph Deutsch & His Orchestra
| length12 = 1:22
| title13 = Park Avenue Fantasy (Reprise)
| note13 = Adolph Deutsch & His Orchestra
| length13 = 2:10
| title14 = Some Like It Hot
| note14 = Matty Malneck & His Orchestra
| length14 = 1:46
| title15 = Some Like It Hot (Single Version)
| note15 = Marilyn Monroe
| length15 = 1:21
|total_length = 32:22
}}
== Production ==
===Pre-production===
[[Billy Wilder]] wrote the script for the film ''Some Like it Hot''.<ref name="Rolston, Lorraine">Rolston, Lorraine, Some like it Hot (York Film Notes). Longman; 1 edition, 2000 p.7-57</ref> The plot is based on a screenplay by [[Robert Thoeren]] and [[Michael Logan (author)|Michael Logan]] from the 1935 French film ''[[Fanfare of Love]]''.<ref name="Curtis, T 2009 p.13">Curtis, T. and Vieira, M. (2009). ''Some Like It Hot''. London: Virgin Books, p.13</ref> However, the original script for ''Fanfare of Love'' was untraceable, so Walter Mirisch found a copy of the 1951 German remake ''[[Fanfares of Love]]''. He bought the rights to the script and Wilder worked with this to produce a new story.<ref name="Curtis, T 2009 p.13"/> Although ''Some Like It Hot'' has been seen as a remake of ''Fanfare of Love'', as both films follow the story of two musicians in search of work,<ref name="Rolston, Lorraine"/> Wilder was the creator of the gangster subplot that kept the musicians on the run.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/16637/Some-Like-It-Hot/articles.html|title=Some Like It Hot (1959)|publisher=Turner Classic Movies, Inc.|accessdate=March 11, 2017}}</ref>
The studio hired [[Barbette (performer)|Barbette]], a famous female impersonator, to coach Lemmon and Curtis on gender illusion for the film.<ref name="Curtis, T 2009 p.13"/>
Marilyn Monroe worked for 10% of the gross in excess of $4 million, Tony Curtis for 5% of the gross over $2 million and Billy Wilder 17.5% of the first million after break-even and 20% thereafter.<ref name="tino">Tino Balio, ''United Artists: The Company That Changed the Film Industry'', University of Wisconsin Press, 1987 p. 170</ref>
===Casting===
Tony Curtis was spotted by Billy Wilder while he was making the film ''[[Houdini (film)|Houdini]]'' (1953),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045886/|title=Houdini (1953)|author=rich-826|date=2 July 1953|work=IMDb|accessdate=14 March 2016}}</ref> as he thought Tony would be perfect for the role of Joe. "I was sure Tony was right for it," explained Wilder, "because he was quite handsome, and when he tells Marilyn that he is one of the [[Shell Oil]] family, she has to be able to believe it".<ref>Golenbock, Peter, American Prince: A Memoir, 2008, Publishing Group</ref> Wilder's first idea for the role of Jerry was [[Frank Sinatra]], but he never came to the audition.<ref>Alison Castle (Hrsg.): Billy Wilder’s Some like it hot. Taschen, 2001, p. 24.</ref> [[Jerry Lewis]] and [[Danny Kaye]] were also considered for the role of Jerry. Finally, Wilder saw Jack Lemmon in the comedy ''[[Operation Mad Ball]]''<ref>Alison Castle (Hrsg.): Billy Wilder’s Some like it hot. Taschen, 2001, S. 238.</ref> and selected him for the role of Jerry. Billy Wilder and Jack Lemmon made numerous films together until 1981, among them ''[[The Apartment]]'' and several films with [[Walter Matthau]].
According to York Film Notes, [[Billy Wilder]] and [[I.A.L. Diamond]] didn't expect such a big star as [[Marilyn Monroe]] to take the part of Sugar<ref name="Rolston, Lorraine"/> in fact, Wilder said, "[[Mitzi Gaynor]] was who we had in mind. The word came that Marilyn wanted the part and then we ''had'' to have Marilyn."<ref>Crowe, Cameron "Conversations with Wilder", Alfred A. Knopf (Reprint edition, 1999) p. 161</ref> Wilder and Monroe had already made the film ''[[The Seven Year Itch]]'' together in 1955.
=== Filming ===
[[File:Coronado del Hotel from the beach.jpg|thumbnail|Hotel del Coronado (2011)]]
The film was made in California during the summer and autumn of 1958.<ref>Alison Castle (Hrsg.): ''Billy Wilder’s Some like it hot.'' Taschen, 2001, p. 24.</ref> Many scenes were shot at the [[Hotel del Coronado]] in [[San Diego]] which appeared as the "Seminole Ritz Hotel" in Miami in the film. The Hotel in San Diego fitted into the era of the 1920s and was near Hollywood, so Wilder chose it although it was not in Florida.
There were many problems with Marilyn Monroe, who lacked concentration and suffered from addiction to pills. She could not memorize many of her lines and required 47 takes to get "It's me, Sugar" correct, instead saying either "Sugar, it's me" or "It's Sugar, me". Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon made bets during the filming how many takes Marilyn would need to get it right.<ref>Jack Lemmon in: Billy Wilder’s Some like it hot. Taschen, 2001, {{ISBN|3-8228-6056-5}}. p. 277</ref> For the scene with Shell Jr. and Sugar at the beach three days for shooting were scheduled. Although Marilyn had plenty of complicated lines, the whole scene between Shell Jr. and Sugar was completely finished in only 20 minutes.<ref>[[Volker Schlöndorff]]: Billy Wilder in ''Billy Wilder speaks.'' Some like it hot. DVD, Oktober 2006.</ref> Monroe's acting coach [[Paula Strasberg]] and Monroe's husband [[Arthur Miller]] both tried to influence the production, which Wilder and other crew members found annoying.<ref>Walter Mirisch in: Billy Wilder’s Some like it hot. Taschen, 2001, {{ISBN|3-8228-6056-5}}</ref><ref>Tony Curtis in: Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot, Taschen 2001 (2010), S. 286</ref>
Billy Wilder said in 1959 about filming another movie with Marilyn Monroe: "I have discussed this with my doctor and my psychiatrist and they tell me I'm too old and too rich to go through this again."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.de/books?id=5WVDRyRvy_4C&pg=PT222&hl=de#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=The Making of Some Like It Hot|author=|date=|work=google.de|accessdate=14 March 2016}}</ref> But Wilder also admitted: "My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.de/books?id=2rL9yP-6UwYC&pg=PA194&lpg=PA194&dq=My+Aunt+Minnie+would+always+be+punctual+and+never+hold+up+production,+but+who+would+pay+to+see+my+Aunt+Minnie?&source=bl&ots=rrh9UR0Wmh&sig=zQ3XBaBCmuDUnpfv9mvf9Zykm4M&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0CEQQ6AEwBWoVChMInuGk7Z7HxwIVhTcUCh1lTg3M#v=onepage&q=My%20Aunt%20Minnie%20would%20always%20be%20punctual%20and%20never%20hold%20up%20production%2C%20but%20who%20would%20pay%20to%20see%20my%20Aunt%20Minnie%3F&f=false|title=Great Funny Quotes: Sweeten Your Life with Laughter|author=|date=|work=google.de|accessdate=14 March 2016}}</ref> He also stated that Monroe played her part wonderfully.<ref>Alison Castle (Hrsg.): Billy Wilder’s Some like it hot. Taschen, 2001, S. 287.</ref>
The film's iconic closing line, "Nobody's perfect"—now ranked 78th on ''The Hollywood Reporter'' list of Hollywood's 100 Favorite Movie Lines—was never supposed to be in the final cut. Diamond and Wilder put it in the script as a "placeholder" until they could come up with something better, but never did.<ref>Hollywood's 100 Favorite Movie Lines. ''The Hollywood Reporter'', March 11–18, 2016, No. 9, p. 69.</ref>
===Style===
With regards to sound design, there is a 'strong musical element'<ref name="Rolston, Lorraine"/> in the film, with the soundtrack created by [[Adolph Deutsch]]. It has an authentic 1920s jazz feel using sharp, brassy strings to create tension in certain moments, for example whenever Spats' gangsters appear. In terms of cinematography and aesthetics, [[Billy Wilder]] chose to shoot the film in black and white as Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in full drag costume and make-up looked 'unacceptably grotesque' in early color tests.<ref name="Rolston, Lorraine"/>
==Reception==
''Some Like It Hot'' received widespread acclaim from critics, and is considered among [[List of films considered the best|the best films of all time]]. It received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Actor for Lemmon and Best Director and Best Screenplay for Wilder, the latter along with I.A.L. Diamond.<ref>http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp?curTime=1466048354340</ref> It was voted as the top comedy film by the American Film Institute on their list on [[AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs]] poll in 2000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/100Years/laughs.aspx|title=American Film Institute|author=|date=|work=afi.com|accessdate=14 March 2016}}</ref>
By 1962, the film had grossed $14 million in the US.<ref>Madsen, Axel, Billy Wilder, Martin Secker & Warburg Limited, 1968</ref>
Roger Ebert wrote about the movie, "Wilder's 1959 comedy is one of the enduring treasures of the movies, a film of inspiration and meticulous craft."<ref name="rogerebert.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-some-like-it-hot-1959|title=Some Like It Hot|author=Roger Ebert|date=9 January 2000|work=rogerebert.com|accessdate=14 March 2016}}</ref> [[John McCarten]] of ''[[The New Yorker]]'' referred to the film as "a jolly, carefree enterprise".<ref>{{cite news |last= Mccarten |first= John|date= 1959 |title= The Current Cinema|newspaper= The New Yorker }}</ref> ''[[The Guardian]]''{{'}}s Richard Roud claims that Wilder comes "close to perfection" with the film.<ref>{{cite news |last=Roud |first=Richard |date=1967 |title= Review |url= |newspaper= The Guardian|location= |access-date= }}</ref>
On [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film has an approval rating of 96% based on 51 reviews, and the average rating is 9 out of 10. The site's critical consensus reads, "''Some Like It Hot'': A spry, quick-witted farce that never drags."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/some_like_it_hot|title=Some Like It Hot|author=|date=29 March 1959|work=rottentomatoes.com|accessdate=14 March 2016}}</ref>
In 1989, this film became one of the first 25 inducted into the United States [[National Film Registry]].{{cn|date=October 2017}}
Though sometimes said to have been "condemned" by the Roman Catholic Church's [[National Legion of Decency|Legion of Decency]], that body gave the film its less critical rating as "morally objectionable".<ref>{{cite book|last=Phillips |first= Gene |title= Some Like it Wilder | publisher = University of Kentucky Press | page = 223 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=SMvpNEsuy1cC&pg=PT413& }}</ref>
In 2017, the [[BBC]] conducted an international survey for the best comedy in film history among 253 film critics from 50 countries, which ranked ''Some Like It Hot'' as number one.<ref>[http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170821-the-100-greatest-comedies-of-all-time ''The 100 greatest comedies of all time'']. BBC Culture, 2017-08-22 </ref>
== Awards and honors ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! style="text-align:center; width:210px;"|Date of ceremony
! style="text-align:center; width:360px;"|Award
! style="text-align:center; width:320px;"|Category
! style="text-align:center; width:280px;"|Recipients and nominees
! style="text-align:center; width:040px;"|Result
|-
| [[Venice Film Festival|August 23 – September 6, 1959]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000681/1959?ref_=ttawd_ev_12|title=Venice Film Festival: Awards for 1959|publisher=[[IMDb]] |accessdate=November 23, 2014}}</ref>
| [[Venice Film Festival]]
|style="text-align:center;"| [[Golden Lion]]
| style="text-align:center;"|''Some Like It Hot'' || {{nom}}
|-
|[[National Board of Review Awards 1959|December 1959]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000212/1960?ref_=ttawd_ev_5|title=Directors Guild of America, USA: Awards for 1960|publisher=[[IMDb]] |accessdate=November 23, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nationalboardofreview.org/award-years/1959/|title=National Board of Review: 1959 Award Winners|publisher=nationalboardofreview.org |accessdate=November 23, 2014}}</ref>
|[[National Board of Review|National Board of Review Awards]]
| style="text-align:center;"|[[National Board of Review: Top Ten Films|Top Ten Films]]
| style="text-align:center;"|''Some Like It Hot'' || {{won}}
|-
| [[Directors Guild of America Award|February 6, 1960]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000464/1959?ref_=ttawd_ev_8|title=National Board of Review, USA: Awards for 1959|publisher=[[IMDb]] |accessdate=November 23, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dga.org/Awards/History/1950s/1959.aspx|title=12th Annual DGA Awards: Honoring Outstanding Directorial Achievement For 1959|publisher=dga.org |accessdate=November 23, 2014}}</ref>
| [[Directors Guild of America Award]]
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film|Outstanding Achievement in Feature Film]]
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Billy Wilder]] || {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="2"|[[13th British Academy Film Awards|1960]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://awards.bafta.org/keyword-search?keywords=1960|title=BAFTA Awards Search: 1960|publisher=bafta.org |accessdate=November 23, 2014}}</ref>
| rowspan="2"|[[British Academy Film Awards]]
|style="text-align:center;"| [[BAFTA Award for Best Film|Best Film from any Source]]
| style="text-align:center;"|''Some Like It Hot''|| {{nom}}
|-
|style="text-align:center;"| [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role|Best Foreign Actor]]
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Jack Lemmon]]|| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="3"| [[17th Golden Globe Awards|March 10, 1960]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1959/1959gg.htm |title=The Envelope: Past Winners Database - 1959 17th Golden Globe Awards |publisher=[[Los Angeles Times]] |accessdate=November 23, 2014 |deadurl=unfit |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070517233114/http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1959/1959gg.htm |archivedate=May 17, 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hfpa.org/browse/?param=/year/1959|title=The 17th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1960)|publisher=hfpa.org|accessdate=November 23, 2014}}</ref>
| rowspan="3"|[[Golden Globe Awards]]
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy|Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical]]
| style="text-align:center;"|Jack Lemmon || {{won}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical|Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical]]
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Marilyn Monroe]]|| {{won}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy|Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy]]
| style="text-align:center;"|''Some Like It Hot'' || {{Won}}
|-
| rowspan="6"| [[32nd Academy Awards|April 4, 1960]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1960|title=The 32nd Academy Awards - 1960: Winners & Nominees|publisher=[[oscars.org]]|accessdate=November 23, 2014}}</ref>
| rowspan="6"| [[Academy Awards]]
|style="text-align:center;"|[[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| style="text-align:center;"|Billy Wilder || {{nom}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| style="text-align:center;"|Jack Lemmon|| {{nom}}
|-
|style="text-align:center;"|[[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Adapted Screenplay]]
| Billy Wilder, [[I. A. L. Diamond]] || {{nom}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Academy Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography – Black-and-white]]
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Charles Lang, Jr.]]|| {{nom}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Academy Award for Best Production Design|Best Art Direction – Black-and-white]]
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Ted Haworth]] <small>(Art Direction)</small>, [[Edward G. Boyle]] <small>(Set Decoration)</small>|| {{nom}}
|-
|style="text-align:center;"|[[Academy Award for Best Costume Design|Best Costume Design—Black and white]]
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Orry-Kelly]] || {{Won}}
|-
|[[Writers Guild of America Award|May 6, 1960]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000710/1960?ref_=ttawd_ev_13|title=Writers Guild of America, USA: Awards for 1960|publisher=[[IMDb]] |accessdate=November 23, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wga.org/wga-awards/previous-nominees-winners2.aspx|title=1960 Awards Winners|publisher=wga.org|accessdate=November 23, 2014|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6XjARCjVO?url=http://www.wga.org/wga-awards/previous-nominees-winners2.aspx|archivedate=April 12, 2015|df=}}</ref>
|[[Writers Guild of America Award]]s
|style="text-align:center;"|[[Writers Guild of America Award#Award Categories|Best Written Comedy]]
| style="text-align:center;"|Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond ||{{won}}
|-
| rowspan="3"|[[Laurel Awards|September 28, 1960]]<ref name="Laurel Awards: Awards for 1960">{{cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000394/1960?ref_=ttawd_ev_7|title=Laurel Awards: Awards for 1960|publisher=[[IMDb]] |accessdate=November 23, 2014}}</ref>
| rowspan="3"|[[Laurel Awards]]
|style="text-align:center;"| [[Laurel Awards|Top Female Comedy Performance]]
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Marilyn Monroe]] (2nd place)|| {{won}}
|-
|style="text-align:center;"| [[Laurel Awards|Top Male Comedy Performance]]
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Jack Lemmon]] (2nd place)|| {{won}}
|-
|style="text-align:center;"| [[Laurel Awards|Top Comedy]]
| style="text-align:center;"|''Some Like It Hot'' (3rd place)|| {{won}}
|-
| [[Bambi Awards|1960]]<ref name="Laurel Awards: Awards for 1960"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bambi-awards.com/the-bambi-award-goes-to|title=The BAMBI award goes to…: A selection of international BAMBI award winners since 1948|publisher=bambi-awards.com |accessdate=November 23, 2014}}</ref>
| [[Bambi Awards]]
|style="text-align:center;"| [[Bambi Awards|Best Actor—International]]
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The film is recognized by [[American Film Institute]] in these lists:
* 1998: [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies]] – #14<ref>{{cite web |title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies |url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/movies100.pdf |publisher=[[American Film Institute]] |date= |accessdate=August 27, 2016}}</ref>
* 2000: [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs]] – #1<ref>{{cite web |title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs |url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/laughs100.pdf |publisher=[[American Film Institute]] |date= |accessdate=August 27, 2016}}</ref>
* 2005: [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes]]:
** Osgood Fielding III: "Well, nobody's perfect." – #48<ref>{{cite web |title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes |url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/quotes100.pdf |publisher=[[American Film Institute]] |date= |accessdate=August 27, 2016}}</ref>
* 2007: [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)]] – #22<ref>{{cite web |title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) |url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/100Movies.pdf |publisher=[[American Film Institute]] |date= |accessdate=August 27, 2016}}</ref>
==Adaptations==
An unsold [[television pilot]] was filmed by [[Mirisch Productions]] in 1961 featuring [[Vic Damone]] and [[Tina Louise]]. As a favor to the production company, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis agreed to film cameo appearances, returning as their original characters, Daphne and Josephine, at the beginning of the pilot. Their appearance sees them in a hospital where Jerry (Lemmon) is being treated for his impacted back tooth and Joe (Curtis) is the same O blood type.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/805149|title=Some Like It Hot [Tv Pilot] (1961)|author=|date=|work=BFI|accessdate=14 March 2016}}</ref>
In 1972, a [[Musical Theatre|musical play]] based on the screenplay of the film, entitled [[Sugar (musical)|''Sugar'']], opened on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]], and starred [[Elaine Joyce]], [[Robert Morse]], [[Tony Roberts (actor)|Tony Roberts]] and [[Cyril Ritchard]], with book by [[Peter Stone]], lyrics by [[Bob Merrill]], and (all-new) music by [[Jule Styne]]. A 1991 stage production of this show in [[London]] featured [[Tommy Steele]] and retained the film's title. In 2002, the aging Tony Curtis performed in a stage production of the film, cast as the character originally played by Joe E. Brown (Osgood Fielding III).
==In literature==
Some Like It Hot, including the costumes of [[Tony Curtis]], are discussed in the 2017 gambling novel [[Never Split Tens]] by [[Les Golden]] of Oak Park, Illinois, published by Springer.
==See also==
* [[List of American films of 1959]]
* [[Cross-dressing in film and television]]
* [[Bollywood]] remake ''[[Rafoo Chakkar]]''
* [[List of films considered the best]]
==References==
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==Further reading==
* Curtis, Tony. ''The Making of Some Like It Hot'', Wiley & Sons, Hoboken NJ, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-470-53721-3}}.
* Maslon, Laurence. ''Some Like It Hot: The Official 50th Anniversary Companion'', New York, HarperCollins, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-06-176123-2}}.
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''Some Like It Hot'' opened to largely positive reviews and is today considered to be one of the greatest film comedies of all time. It was voted as the top comedy film by the [[American Film Institute]] on their list on AFI's ''100 Years... 100 Laughs'' poll in 2000. The film is also notable for featuring cross dressing, and for playing with the idea of [[homosexuality]], which led to its being produced without approval from the [[Motion Picture Production Code]]. The code had been gradually weakening in its scope during the early 1950s, due to increasing social tolerance for previously taboo topics in film, but it was still officially enforced. The overwhelming success of ''Some Like It Hot'' is considered one of the final nails in the coffin for the [[Hays Code]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93301189|title=Remembering Hollywood's Hays Code, 40 Years On|author=|date=8 August 2008|work=NPR.org|accessdate=14 March 2016}}</ref>
==Plot==
It is February 1929 in the city of [[Chicago]], during the era of [[Prohibition in the United States|prohibition]]. Joe ([[Tony Curtis]]) is an irresponsible jazz saxophone player, gambler and ladies' man; his friend Jerry ([[Jack Lemmon]]) is a sensible jazz double-bass player; both are working in a [[speakeasy]] (disguised as a [[funeral home]]) owned by [[mafia|mob]] gangster "Spats" Colombo ([[George Raft]]). When the joint is raided by the police after being tipped off by informant "Toothpick" Charlie ([[George E. Stone]]), Joe and Jerry flee—only to accidentally witness Spats and his henchmen exacting his revenge on "Toothpick" and his own gang (inspired by the real-life [[Saint Valentine's Day Massacre]]). Penniless and in a mad rush to get out of town, the two musicians take a job with Sweet Sue ([[Joan Shawlee]]) and her Society Syncopators, an all-female band headed to [[Miami]]. [[Drag (clothing)|Disguised as women]] and renaming themselves Josephine and Daphne, they board a train with the band and their male manager, Bienstock. Before they board the train, Joe and Jerry notice Sugar Kane ([[Marilyn Monroe]]), the band's vocalist and ukulele player.
Joe and Jerry become enamored of Sugar and compete for her affection while maintaining their disguises. Sugar confides that she has sworn off male saxophone players, who have stolen her heart in the past and left her with "the fuzzy end of the lollipop". She has set her sights on finding a sweet, bespectacled millionaire in Florida. During the forbidden drinking and partying on the train, Josephine and Daphne become intimate friends with Sugar, and have to struggle to remember that they are supposed to be girls and cannot make a pass at her.
Once in Miami, Joe woos Sugar by assuming a second disguise as a millionaire named Junior, the heir to [[Shell Oil]], while feigning disinterest in Sugar. An actual millionaire, the much-married aging mama's boy Osgood Fielding III, ([[Joe E. Brown]]) tries repeatedly to pick up Daphne, who rebuffs him. Osgood invites Daphne for a champagne supper on his yacht. Joe convinces Daphne to keep Osgood occupied onshore so that Junior can take Sugar to Osgood's yacht, passing it off as his. Once on the yacht, Junior explains to Sugar that, due to psychological trauma, he is impotent and frigid, but that he would marry anyone who could change that. Sugar tries to arouse some sexual response in Junior, and begins to succeed. Meanwhile, Daphne and Osgood dance the tango ("[[La Cumparsita]]") till dawn. When Joe and Jerry get back to the hotel, Jerry explains that Osgood has proposed marriage to Daphne and that he, as Daphne, has accepted, anticipating an instant divorce and huge cash settlement when his ruse is revealed. Joe convinces Jerry that he cannot actually marry Osgood.
The hotel hosts a conference for "Friends of Italian Opera", which is in fact a front for a major meeting of various branches of [[La Cosa Nostra]]. Spats and his gang from Chicago recognize Joe and Jerry as the witnesses to the Valentine's Day murders. Joe and Jerry, fearing for their lives, realize they must quit the band and leave the hotel. Joe breaks Sugar's heart by telling her that he, Junior, has to marry a woman of his father's choosing and move to [[Venezuela]]. After several chases, Joe and Jerry witness additional mob killings, this time of Spats and his boys. Joe, dressed as Josephine, sees Sugar onstage singing that she will never love again. He kisses her before he leaves, and Sugar realizes that Joe is both Josephine and Junior.
Sugar runs from the stage at the end of her performance and manages to jump into the launch from Osgood's yacht ''New Caledonia'' just as it is leaving the dock with Joe, Jerry, and Osgood. Joe tells Sugar that he is not good enough for her, that she would be getting the "fuzzy end of the lollipop" yet again, but Sugar wants him anyway. Jerry, for his part, comes up with a list of reasons why he and Osgood cannot get married, ranging from a smoking habit to infertility. Osgood dismisses them all; he loves Daphne and is determined to go through with the marriage. Exasperated, Jerry removes his wig and shouts, "I'm a man!" Osgood simply responds, "Well, nobody's perfect."
==Cast==
[[File:Monroe and Curtis in Some Like it Hot.JPG|thumb|Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe in ''Some Like It Hot'']]
* [[Marilyn Monroe]] as Sugar "Kane" Kowalczyk, a ukulele player and singer
* [[Tony Curtis]] as Joe/"Josephine"/"Shell Oil Junior", a saxophone player
* [[Jack Lemmon]] as Jerry (Gerald)/"Daphne", a double bass player
* [[George Raft]] as "Spats" Colombo, a mobster from Chicago
* [[Pat O'Brien (actor)|Pat O'Brien]] as Detective Mulligan
* [[Joe E. Brown]] as Osgood Fielding III
* [[Nehemiah Persoff]] as "Little Bonaparte," a mobster
* [[Joan Shawlee]] as Sweet Sue, the bandleader of "Sweet Sue and Her Society Syncopators"
* [[Dave Barry (actor)|Dave Barry]] as Mister Beinstock, the band manager for "Sweet Sue and Her Society Syncopators"
* [[Billy Gray (comedian)|Billy Gray]] as Sig Poliakoff, Joe and Jerry's agent in Chicago
* Barbara Drew as Nellie Weinmeyer, Poliakoff's secretary
* [[George E. Stone]] as "Toothpick" Charlie, a gangster who is killed by "Spats" Colombo
* [[Mike Mazurki]] as Spats's henchman
* [[Harry Wilson (actor)|Harry Wilson]] as Spats's henchman
* [[Edward G. Robinson Jr.]] as Johnny Paradise, a gangster who kills "Spats" Colombo
* Beverly Wills as Dolores, a trombone player, and Sugar's apartment friend
* Al Breneman as the fresh bellboy (uncredited){{citation needed|date=April 2017}}
* [[Tito Vuolo]] as Mr. Mozzarella, funeral director (uncredited){{citation needed|date=February 2017}}
* [[Tom Kennedy (actor)|Tom Kennedy]] as Mozzarella's bouncer (uncredited){{citation needed|date=February 2016}}
* [[Grace Lee Whitney]] as Rosella (uncredited)
==Soundtrack==
The soundtrack features 4 songs performed by Marilyn Monroe for the movie, 9 songs composed by Adolph Deutsch, as well as 2 songs performed by [[jazz]] artist [[Matty Malneck]].<ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/album/some-like-it-hot-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-mw0000652193 Some Like It Hot [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] - Original Soundtrack _ Songs, Reviews, Credits _ AllMusic]</ref>
{{Track listing
| title1 = [[Runnin' Wild (1922 song)|Runnin' Wild]]
| note1 = [[Marilyn Monroe]]
| length1 = 1:07
| title2 = Medley: Sugar Blues/Running Wild
| note2 = [[Adolph Deutsch]] & His Orchestra
| length2 = 1:32
| title3 = Down Among the Sheltering Palms
| note3 = Adolph Deutsch & His Orchestra
| length3 = 1:59
| title4 = Randolph Street Rag
| note4 = Adolph Deutsch
| length4 = 1:28
| title5 = [[I Wanna Be Loved By You]]
| note5 = Marilyn Monroe
| length5 = 2:58
| title6 = Park Avenue Fantasy
| note6 = Adolph Deutsch & His Orchestra
| length6 = 3:34
| title7 = Medley: Down Among the Sheltering Palms / La Cumparsita / I Wanna Be Loved By You
| note7 = Adolph Deutsch & His Orchestra
| length7 = 2:20
| title8 = I'm Thru With Love
| note8 = Marilyn Monroe
| length8 = 2:34
| title9 = Medley: Sugar Blues / Tell the Whole Damn World
| note9 = Adolph Deutsch & His Orchestra
| length9 = 3:25
| title10 = Play It Again Charlie
| note10 = Adolph Deutsch
| length10 = 1:49
| title11 = Sweet Georgia Brown
| note11 = [[Matty Malneck]] & His Orchestra
| length11 = 2:57
| title12 = By the Beautiful Sea
| note12 = Adolph Deutsch & His Orchestra
| length12 = 1:22
| title13 = Park Avenue Fantasy (Reprise)
| note13 = Adolph Deutsch & His Orchestra
| length13 = 2:10
| title14 = Some Like It Hot
| note14 = Matty Malneck & His Orchestra
| length14 = 1:46
| title15 = Some Like It Hot (Single Version)
| note15 = Marilyn Monroe
| length15 = 1:21
|total_length = 32:22
}}
== Production ==
===Pre-production===
[[Billy Wilder]] wrote the script for the film ''Some Like it Hot''.<ref name="Rolston, Lorraine">Rolston, Lorraine, Some like it Hot (York Film Notes). Longman; 1 edition, 2000 p.7-57</ref> The plot is based on a screenplay by [[Robert Thoeren]] and [[Michael Logan (author)|Michael Logan]] from the 1935 French film ''[[Fanfare of Love]]''.<ref name="Curtis, T 2009 p.13">Curtis, T. and Vieira, M. (2009). ''Some Like It Hot''. London: Virgin Books, p.13</ref> However, the original script for ''Fanfare of Love'' was untraceable, so Walter Mirisch found a copy of the 1951 German remake ''[[Fanfares of Love]]''. He bought the rights to the script and Wilder worked with this to produce a new story.<ref name="Curtis, T 2009 p.13"/> Although ''Some Like It Hot'' has been seen as a remake of ''Fanfare of Love'', as both films follow the story of two musicians in search of work,<ref name="Rolston, Lorraine"/> Wilder was the creator of the gangster subplot that kept the musicians on the run.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/16637/Some-Like-It-Hot/articles.html|title=Some Like It Hot (1959)|publisher=Turner Classic Movies, Inc.|accessdate=March 11, 2017}}</ref>
The studio hired [[Barbette (performer)|Barbette]], a famous female impersonator, to coach Lemmon and Curtis on gender illusion for the film.<ref name="Curtis, T 2009 p.13"/>
Marilyn Monroe worked for 10% of the gross in excess of $4 million, Tony Curtis for 5% of the gross over $2 million and Billy Wilder 17.5% of the first million after break-even and 20% thereafter.<ref name="tino">Tino Balio, ''United Artists: The Company That Changed the Film Industry'', University of Wisconsin Press, 1987 p. 170</ref>
===Casting===
Tony Curtis was spotted by Billy Wilder while he was making the film ''[[Houdini (film)|Houdini]]'' (1953),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045886/|title=Houdini (1953)|author=rich-826|date=2 July 1953|work=IMDb|accessdate=14 March 2016}}</ref> as he thought Tony would be perfect for the role of Joe. "I was sure Tony was right for it," explained Wilder, "because he was quite handsome, and when he tells Marilyn that he is one of the [[Shell Oil]] family, she has to be able to believe it".<ref>Golenbock, Peter, American Prince: A Memoir, 2008, Publishing Group</ref> Wilder's first idea for the role of Jerry was [[Frank Sinatra]], but he never came to the audition.<ref>Alison Castle (Hrsg.): Billy Wilder’s Some like it hot. Taschen, 2001, p. 24.</ref> [[Jerry Lewis]] and [[Danny Kaye]] were also considered for the role of Jerry. Finally, Wilder saw Jack Lemmon in the comedy ''[[Operation Mad Ball]]''<ref>Alison Castle (Hrsg.): Billy Wilder’s Some like it hot. Taschen, 2001, S. 238.</ref> and selected him for the role of Jerry. Billy Wilder and Jack Lemmon made numerous films together until 1981, among them ''[[The Apartment]]'' and several films with [[Walter Matthau]].
According to York Film Notes, [[Billy Wilder]] and [[I.A.L. Diamond]] didn't expect such a big star as [[Marilyn Monroe]] to take the part of Sugar<ref name="Rolston, Lorraine"/> in fact, Wilder said, "[[Mitzi Gaynor]] was who we had in mind. The word came that Marilyn wanted the part and then we ''had'' to have Marilyn."<ref>Crowe, Cameron "Conversations with Wilder", Alfred A. Knopf (Reprint edition, 1999) p. 161</ref> Wilder and Monroe had already made the film ''[[The Seven Year Itch]]'' together in 1955.
=== Filming ===
[[File:Coronado del Hotel from the beach.jpg|thumbnail|Hotel del Coronado (2011)]]
The film was made in California during the summer and autumn of 1958.<ref>Alison Castle (Hrsg.): ''Billy Wilder’s Some like it hot.'' Taschen, 2001, p. 24.</ref> Many scenes were shot at the [[Hotel del Coronado]] in [[San Diego]] which appeared as the "Seminole Ritz Hotel" in Miami in the film. The Hotel in San Diego fitted into the era of the 1920s and was near Hollywood, so Wilder chose it although it was not in Florida.
There were many problems with Marilyn Monroe, who lacked concentration and suffered from addiction to pills. She could not memorize many of her lines and required 47 takes to get "It's me, Sugar" correct, instead saying either "Sugar, it's me" or "It's Sugar, me". Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon made bets during the filming how many takes Marilyn would need to get it right.<ref>Jack Lemmon in: Billy Wilder’s Some like it hot. Taschen, 2001, {{ISBN|3-8228-6056-5}}. p. 277</ref> For the scene with Shell Jr. and Sugar at the beach three days for shooting were scheduled. Although Marilyn had plenty of complicated lines, the whole scene between Shell Jr. and Sugar was completely finished in only 20 minutes.<ref>[[Volker Schlöndorff]]: Billy Wilder in ''Billy Wilder speaks.'' Some like it hot. DVD, Oktober 2006.</ref> Monroe's acting coach [[Paula Strasberg]] and Monroe's husband [[Arthur Miller]] both tried to influence the production, which Wilder and other crew members found annoying.<ref>Walter Mirisch in: Billy Wilder’s Some like it hot. Taschen, 2001, {{ISBN|3-8228-6056-5}}</ref><ref>Tony Curtis in: Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot, Taschen 2001 (2010), S. 286</ref>
Billy Wilder said in 1959 about filming another movie with Marilyn Monroe: "I have discussed this with my doctor and my psychiatrist and they tell me I'm too old and too rich to go through this again."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.de/books?id=5WVDRyRvy_4C&pg=PT222&hl=de#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=The Making of Some Like It Hot|author=|date=|work=google.de|accessdate=14 March 2016}}</ref> But Wilder also admitted: "My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.de/books?id=2rL9yP-6UwYC&pg=PA194&lpg=PA194&dq=My+Aunt+Minnie+would+always+be+punctual+and+never+hold+up+production,+but+who+would+pay+to+see+my+Aunt+Minnie?&source=bl&ots=rrh9UR0Wmh&sig=zQ3XBaBCmuDUnpfv9mvf9Zykm4M&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0CEQQ6AEwBWoVChMInuGk7Z7HxwIVhTcUCh1lTg3M#v=onepage&q=My%20Aunt%20Minnie%20would%20always%20be%20punctual%20and%20never%20hold%20up%20production%2C%20but%20who%20would%20pay%20to%20see%20my%20Aunt%20Minnie%3F&f=false|title=Great Funny Quotes: Sweeten Your Life with Laughter|author=|date=|work=google.de|accessdate=14 March 2016}}</ref> He also stated that Monroe played her part wonderfully.<ref>Alison Castle (Hrsg.): Billy Wilder’s Some like it hot. Taschen, 2001, S. 287.</ref>
The film's iconic closing line, "Nobody's perfect"—now ranked 78th on ''The Hollywood Reporter'' list of Hollywood's 100 Favorite Movie Lines—was never supposed to be in the final cut. Diamond and Wilder put it in the script as a "placeholder" until they could come up with something better, but never did.<ref>Hollywood's 100 Favorite Movie Lines. ''The Hollywood Reporter'', March 11–18, 2016, No. 9, p. 69.</ref>
===Style===
With regards to sound design, there is a 'strong musical element'<ref name="Rolston, Lorraine"/> in the film, with the soundtrack created by [[Adolph Deutsch]]. It has an authentic 1920s jazz feel using sharp, brassy strings to create tension in certain moments, for example whenever Spats' gangsters appear. In terms of cinematography and aesthetics, [[Billy Wilder]] chose to shoot the film in black and white as Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in full drag costume and make-up looked 'unacceptably grotesque' in early color tests.<ref name="Rolston, Lorraine"/>
==Reception==
''Some Like It Hot'' received widespread acclaim from critics, and is considered among [[List of films considered the best|the best films of all time]]. It received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Actor for Lemmon and Best Director and Best Screenplay for Wilder, the latter along with I.A.L. Diamond.<ref>http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp?curTime=1466048354340</ref> It was voted as the top comedy film by the American Film Institute on their list on [[AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs]] poll in 2000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/100Years/laughs.aspx|title=American Film Institute|author=|date=|work=afi.com|accessdate=14 March 2016}}</ref>
By 1962, the film had grossed $14 million in the US.<ref>Madsen, Axel, Billy Wilder, Martin Secker & Warburg Limited, 1968</ref>
Roger Ebert wrote about the movie, "Wilder's 1959 comedy is one of the enduring treasures of the movies, a film of inspiration and meticulous craft."<ref name="rogerebert.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-some-like-it-hot-1959|title=Some Like It Hot|author=Roger Ebert|date=9 January 2000|work=rogerebert.com|accessdate=14 March 2016}}</ref> [[John McCarten]] of ''[[The New Yorker]]'' referred to the film as "a jolly, carefree enterprise".<ref>{{cite news |last= Mccarten |first= John|date= 1959 |title= The Current Cinema|newspaper= The New Yorker }}</ref> ''[[The Guardian]]''{{'}}s Richard Roud claims that Wilder comes "close to perfection" with the film.<ref>{{cite news |last=Roud |first=Richard |date=1967 |title= Review |url= |newspaper= The Guardian|location= |access-date= }}</ref>
On [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film has an approval rating of 96% based on 51 reviews, and the average rating is 9 out of 10. The site's critical consensus reads, "''Some Like It Hot'': A spry, quick-witted farce that never drags."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/some_like_it_hot|title=Some Like It Hot|author=|date=29 March 1959|work=rottentomatoes.com|accessdate=14 March 2016}}</ref>
In 1989, this film became one of the first 25 inducted into the United States [[National Film Registry]].{{cn|date=October 2017}}
Though sometimes said to have been "condemned" by the Roman Catholic Church's [[National Legion of Decency|Legion of Decency]], that body gave the film its less critical rating as "morally objectionable".<ref>{{cite book|last=Phillips |first= Gene |title= Some Like it Wilder | publisher = University of Kentucky Press | page = 223 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=SMvpNEsuy1cC&pg=PT413& }}</ref>
In 2017, the [[BBC]] conducted an international survey for the best comedy in film history among 253 film critics from 50 countries, which ranked ''Some Like It Hot'' as number one.<ref>[http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170821-the-100-greatest-comedies-of-all-time ''The 100 greatest comedies of all time'']. BBC Culture, 2017-08-22 </ref>
== Awards and honors ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! style="text-align:center; width:210px;"|Date of ceremony
! style="text-align:center; width:360px;"|Award
! style="text-align:center; width:320px;"|Category
! style="text-align:center; width:280px;"|Recipients and nominees
! style="text-align:center; width:040px;"|Result
|-
| [[Venice Film Festival|August 23 – September 6, 1959]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000681/1959?ref_=ttawd_ev_12|title=Venice Film Festival: Awards for 1959|publisher=[[IMDb]] |accessdate=November 23, 2014}}</ref>
| [[Venice Film Festival]]
|style="text-align:center;"| [[Golden Lion]]
| style="text-align:center;"|''Some Like It Hot'' || {{nom}}
|-
|[[National Board of Review Awards 1959|December 1959]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000212/1960?ref_=ttawd_ev_5|title=Directors Guild of America, USA: Awards for 1960|publisher=[[IMDb]] |accessdate=November 23, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nationalboardofreview.org/award-years/1959/|title=National Board of Review: 1959 Award Winners|publisher=nationalboardofreview.org |accessdate=November 23, 2014}}</ref>
|[[National Board of Review|National Board of Review Awards]]
| style="text-align:center;"|[[National Board of Review: Top Ten Films|Top Ten Films]]
| style="text-align:center;"|''Some Like It Hot'' || {{won}}
|-
| [[Directors Guild of America Award|February 6, 1960]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000464/1959?ref_=ttawd_ev_8|title=National Board of Review, USA: Awards for 1959|publisher=[[IMDb]] |accessdate=November 23, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dga.org/Awards/History/1950s/1959.aspx|title=12th Annual DGA Awards: Honoring Outstanding Directorial Achievement For 1959|publisher=dga.org |accessdate=November 23, 2014}}</ref>
| [[Directors Guild of America Award]]
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film|Outstanding Achievement in Feature Film]]
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Billy Wilder]] || {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="2"|[[13th British Academy Film Awards|1960]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://awards.bafta.org/keyword-search?keywords=1960|title=BAFTA Awards Search: 1960|publisher=bafta.org |accessdate=November 23, 2014}}</ref>
| rowspan="2"|[[British Academy Film Awards]]
|style="text-align:center;"| [[BAFTA Award for Best Film|Best Film from any Source]]
| style="text-align:center;"|''Some Like It Hot''|| {{nom}}
|-
|style="text-align:center;"| [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role|Best Foreign Actor]]
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Jack Lemmon]]|| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="3"| [[17th Golden Globe Awards|March 10, 1960]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1959/1959gg.htm |title=The Envelope: Past Winners Database - 1959 17th Golden Globe Awards |publisher=[[Los Angeles Times]] |accessdate=November 23, 2014 |deadurl=unfit |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070517233114/http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1959/1959gg.htm |archivedate=May 17, 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hfpa.org/browse/?param=/year/1959|title=The 17th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1960)|publisher=hfpa.org|accessdate=November 23, 2014}}</ref>
| rowspan="3"|[[Golden Globe Awards]]
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy|Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical]]
| style="text-align:center;"|Jack Lemmon || {{won}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical|Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical]]
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Marilyn Monroe]]|| {{won}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy|Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy]]
| style="text-align:center;"|''Some Like It Hot'' || {{Won}}
|-
| rowspan="6"| [[32nd Academy Awards|April 4, 1960]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1960|title=The 32nd Academy Awards - 1960: Winners & Nominees|publisher=[[oscars.org]]|accessdate=November 23, 2014}}</ref>
| rowspan="6"| [[Academy Awards]]
|style="text-align:center;"|[[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| style="text-align:center;"|Billy Wilder || {{nom}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| style="text-align:center;"|Jack Lemmon|| {{nom}}
|-
|style="text-align:center;"|[[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Adapted Screenplay]]
| Billy Wilder, [[I. A. L. Diamond]] || {{nom}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Academy Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography – Black-and-white]]
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Charles Lang, Jr.]]|| {{nom}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Academy Award for Best Production Design|Best Art Direction – Black-and-white]]
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Ted Haworth]] <small>(Art Direction)</small>, [[Edward G. Boyle]] <small>(Set Decoration)</small>|| {{nom}}
|-
|style="text-align:center;"|[[Academy Award for Best Costume Design|Best Costume Design—Black and white]]
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Orry-Kelly]] || {{Won}}
|-
|[[Writers Guild of America Award|May 6, 1960]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000710/1960?ref_=ttawd_ev_13|title=Writers Guild of America, USA: Awards for 1960|publisher=[[IMDb]] |accessdate=November 23, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wga.org/wga-awards/previous-nominees-winners2.aspx|title=1960 Awards Winners|publisher=wga.org|accessdate=November 23, 2014|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6XjARCjVO?url=http://www.wga.org/wga-awards/previous-nominees-winners2.aspx|archivedate=April 12, 2015|df=}}</ref>
|[[Writers Guild of America Award]]s
|style="text-align:center;"|[[Writers Guild of America Award#Award Categories|Best Written Comedy]]
| style="text-align:center;"|Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond ||{{won}}
|-
| rowspan="3"|[[Laurel Awards|September 28, 1960]]<ref name="Laurel Awards: Awards for 1960">{{cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000394/1960?ref_=ttawd_ev_7|title=Laurel Awards: Awards for 1960|publisher=[[IMDb]] |accessdate=November 23, 2014}}</ref>
| rowspan="3"|[[Laurel Awards]]
|style="text-align:center;"| [[Laurel Awards|Top Female Comedy Performance]]
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Marilyn Monroe]] (2nd place)|| {{won}}
|-
|style="text-align:center;"| [[Laurel Awards|Top Male Comedy Performance]]
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Jack Lemmon]] (2nd place)|| {{won}}
|-
|style="text-align:center;"| [[Laurel Awards|Top Comedy]]
| style="text-align:center;"|''Some Like It Hot'' (3rd place)|| {{won}}
|-
| [[Bambi Awards|1960]]<ref name="Laurel Awards: Awards for 1960"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bambi-awards.com/the-bambi-award-goes-to|title=The BAMBI award goes to…: A selection of international BAMBI award winners since 1948|publisher=bambi-awards.com |accessdate=November 23, 2014}}</ref>
| [[Bambi Awards]]
|style="text-align:center;"| [[Bambi Awards|Best Actor—International]]
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Tony Curtis]] (2nd place)|| {{nom}}
|}
The film is recognized by [[American Film Institute]] in these lists:
* 1998: [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies]] – #14<ref>{{cite web |title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies |url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/movies100.pdf |publisher=[[American Film Institute]] |date= |accessdate=August 27, 2016}}</ref>
* 2000: [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs]] – #1<ref>{{cite web |title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs |url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/laughs100.pdf |publisher=[[American Film Institute]] |date= |accessdate=August 27, 2016}}</ref>
* 2005: [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes]]:
** Osgood Fielding III: "Well, nobody's perfect." – #48<ref>{{cite web |title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes |url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/quotes100.pdf |publisher=[[American Film Institute]] |date= |accessdate=August 27, 2016}}</ref>
* 2007: [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)]] – #22<ref>{{cite web |title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) |url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/100Movies.pdf |publisher=[[American Film Institute]] |date= |accessdate=August 27, 2016}}</ref>
==Adaptations==
An unsold [[television pilot]] was filmed by [[Mirisch Productions]] in 1961 featuring [[Vic Damone]] and [[Tina Louise]]. As a favor to the production company, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis agreed to film cameo appearances, returning as their original characters, Daphne and Josephine, at the beginning of the pilot. Their appearance sees them in a hospital where Jerry (Lemmon) is being treated for his impacted back tooth and Joe (Curtis) is the same O blood type.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/805149|title=Some Like It Hot [Tv Pilot] (1961)|author=|date=|work=BFI|accessdate=14 March 2016}}</ref>
In 1972, a [[Musical Theatre|musical play]] based on the screenplay of the film, entitled [[Sugar (musical)|''Sugar'']], opened on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]], and starred [[Elaine Joyce]], [[Robert Morse]], [[Tony Roberts (actor)|Tony Roberts]] and [[Cyril Ritchard]], with book by [[Peter Stone]], lyrics by [[Bob Merrill]], and (all-new) music by [[Jule Styne]]. A 1991 stage production of this show in [[London]] featured [[Tommy Steele]] and retained the film's title. In 2002, the aging Tony Curtis performed in a stage production of the film, cast as the character originally played by Joe E. Brown (Osgood Fielding III).
==In literature==
Some Like It Hot, including the costumes of [[Tony Curtis]], are discussed in the 2017 gambling novel [[Never Split Tens]] by [[Les Golden]] of Oak Park, Illinois, published by Springer.
==See also==
* [[List of American films of 1959]]
* [[Cross-dressing in film and television]]
* [[Bollywood]] remake ''[[Rafoo Chakkar]]''
* [[List of films considered the best]]
==References==
{{reflist|2}}
==Further reading==
* Curtis, Tony. ''The Making of Some Like It Hot'', Wiley & Sons, Hoboken NJ, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-470-53721-3}}.
* Maslon, Laurence. ''Some Like It Hot: The Official 50th Anniversary Companion'', New York, HarperCollins, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-06-176123-2}}.
==External links==
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* [[Roger Ebert]]'s [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20000109%2FREVIEWS08%2F1090301%2F1023 review of ''Some Like It Hot'']
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