Some Like It Hot

Some Like it Hot maintains a legacy as one of the earliest great American comedies that was completely disconnected from Chaplin. Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon star as struggling jazz musicians that accidentally witness a shooting between gangsters. Desperate to get away, the two men disguise themselves as women and join an all-female jazz band to escape the mob to Miami. Along the way, they meet the beautiful yet brainless Sugar Kane, and both pine for her affections. What follows is a cavalcade of deception, romance, screwball antics, swinging jazz, and one of, if not the greatest, ending lines to a movie of all time.

Production

Directed by Billy Wilder

Produced by Billy Wilder

Screenplay by Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond

Starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, Joe E. Brown

Cinematography by Charles Lang

Edited by Arthur P. Schmidt

Production company: Mirisch Company

Distribution & Stats

Distributed by United Artists

Release date: March 29, 1959

Running time: 121 minutes

Country: United States

Language: English

Budget: $2.9 million

Box office: $49 million