For other uses, see Some Like It Hot (disambiguation).
Some Like It Hot
Theatrical release poster by Macario Gómez Quibus[1]
Directed by
Billy Wilder
Screenplay by
Billy Wilder
I. A. L. Diamond
Story by
Robert Thoeren
Michael Logan
Based on
Fanfare of Love by Max Bronnet Michael Logan Pierre Prévert René Pujol Robert Thoeren
Produced by
Billy Wilder
Starring
Marilyn Monroe
Tony Curtis
Jack Lemmon
George Raft
Joe E. Brown
Pat O'Brien
Cinematography
Charles Lang
Edited by
Arthur P. Schmidt
Music by
Adolph Deutsch
Production company
Mirisch Company
Distributed by
United Artists
Release date
March 29, 1959 (1959-03-29)
Running time
121 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$2.9 million[2]
Box office
$49 million[2]
Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American crime comedy[3] film directed, produced and co-written by Billy Wilder. It stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, with George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee and Nehemiah Persoff in supporting roles. The screenplay by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is based on a screenplay by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan from the 1935 French film Fanfare of Love. The film is about two musicians who disguise themselves by dressing as women to escape from mafia gangsters whom they witnessed committing a crime.
Some Like It Hot opened to critical and commercial success and is considered to be one of the greatest films of all time. The film received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Actor, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, winning for Best Costume Design. In 1989, the Library of Congress selected it as one of the first 25 films for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[4][5]
The film was produced without approval from the Motion Picture Production Code (Hays Code) because it features cross-dressing. The code had been gradually weakening in its scope since the early 1950s, owing to greater social tolerance for taboo topics in film, but it was enforced until the mid-1960s. The overwhelming success of Some Like It Hot is considered one of the reasons behind the retirement of the Hays Code.[2]
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^"Review of the film Some Like It Hot (1959)". 2008. Archived from the original on October 7, 2022. Retrieved October 7, 2022.
^"Entertainment: Film Registry Picks First 25 Movies". Los Angeles Times. Washington, D.C. September 19, 1989. Archived from the original on May 5, 2020. Retrieved April 22, 2020.
^"Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Archived from the original on October 31, 2016. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
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