Some Like It Hot
| Some Like It Hot | |
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Theatrical release poster by Macario Gómez Quibus[1] | |
| Directed by | Billy Wilder |
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| Based on | Fanfare of Love 1935 film by Max Bronnet Michael Logan Pierre Prévert René Pujol Robert Thoeren |
| Produced by | Billy Wilder |
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| Cinematography | Charles Lang |
| Edited by | Arthur P. Schmidt |
| Music by | Adolph Deutsch |
Production company | Mirisch Company |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 121 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2.9 million[3] |
| Box office | $49 million[3] |
Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American crime comedy film produced, co-written and directed 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. Set in the Prohibition era, the film is about two musicians (Curtis and Lemmon) who disguise themselves as women to escape Chicago mobsters they witnessed commit murder.
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 Production 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 code.[3]
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- ^ "Some Like It Hot Starts Thursday Mar. 19". Chicago Tribune. March 12, 1959. p. 21.
- ^ a b c "Remembering Hollywood's Hays Code, 40 Years On". NPR.org. August 8, 2008. Archived from the original on June 11, 2018. Retrieved March 14, 2016.
- ^ "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.