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IMDB: 8.4
Tomatoes: 98%
Release date: 1959
Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon
Synopsis: The launching pad for Billy Wilder's comedy classic was a rusty old
German farce, Fanfares of Love, whose two main characters were male
musicians so desperate to get a job that they disguise themselves as
women and play with an all-girl band in gangster-dominated 1929 Chicago.
In this version, musicians Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon)
lose their jobs when a speakeasy owned by mob boss Spats Columbo (George
Raft) is raided by prohibition agent Mulligan (Pat O'Brien). Several
weeks
later, on February 14th,
Joe and Jerry get a job perfroming in Urbana and end up witnessing a
gangland massacre in a parking garage. Fearing that they will be next on
the mobsters' hit lists, Joe devises an ingenious plan for disguising
their identities. Soon they are all dolled up and performing as
Josephine and Daphne in Sweet Sue's all-girl orchestra. En route to
Florida by train with Sweet Sue's band, the boys (girls?) make the
acquaintance of Sue's lead singer Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe, in what
may be her best performance). Joe and Jerry immediately fall in love,
though of course their new feminine identities prevent them from acting
on their desires. Still, they are determined to woo her, and they enact
an elaborate series of gender-bending ruses complicated by the fact that
flirtatious millionaire Osgood Fielding (Joe E. Brown) has fallen in
love with "Daphne." The plot gets even thicker when Spats Columbo and
his boys show up in Florida. Nominated for several Oscars, Some Like It
Hot ended up the biggest moneymaking comedy up to 1959. Full of
hilarious set pieces and movie in-jokes, it has not tarnished with time
and in fact seems to get better with each passing year, as its
cross-dressing humor keeps it only more and more up-to-date.
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