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Film details
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Featuring
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Director
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Country
USA
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Year
1959
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Genre
Comedy
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Introduction
“It possesses a quality found in the best comedies – a sense of humanity and an attitude of compassion for the lunatics who play the fool for our sake.”
Bernard F. Dick, Billy Wilder, 1980
Billy Wilder’s zany cross-dressing comedy begins with a massacre – resembling the gangland St Valentine’s Day killings of 1929 – and ends with one of the most celebrated last lines in cinema history. Written in cahoots with the director’s new collaborator I.A.L. Diamond, Some Like It Hot ascends to inspired heights of silliness in-between, with Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon both on career-best form as dragged-up musicians hiding out with Sugar Kane’s girl band.
Both the gangster story and the screwball antics hark back to Hollywood films of the 1930s, but Wilder’s outrageous and subversive play with gender was truly boundary pushing and helped lead to a loosening of censorship after United Arists released the film without certification.
A US immigration technicality forces French serviceman Cary Grant to don a woman’s uniform in Howard Hawks’ earlier farce, I Was a Male War Bride (1949).
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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Sugar Kane
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Joe, 'Josephine'
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Jerry, 'Daphne'
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Spats Colombo
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Mulligan
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Osgood Fielding III
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Little Bonaparte
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Sweet Sue
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Sig Poliakoff
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Toothpick Charlie
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Beinstock
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Spats' henchman
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Spats' henchman
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Dolores
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Nellie
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Johnny Paradise
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[bouncer]
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[waiter]
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[trumpet player]
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Credits
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Direction:
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Directed by
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Assistant Director
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Script Continuity
Production:
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©
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a Mirisch Company picture
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Presents
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Produced by
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Associate Producer
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Associate Producer
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Production Manager
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Studio
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Screenplay by
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Screenplay by
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Suggested by a story by
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Suggested by a story by
Photography:
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Director of Photography
Special Effects:
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Special Effects
Editing:
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Film Editor
Design:
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Art Director
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Set Decorator
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Property
Costumes:
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Miss Monroe's Gowns
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Wardrobe
Make-up:
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Make-up Artist
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Hairstyles
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Hairstyles
Music:
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Background Score
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Songs Supervised by
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Music Editor
Sound:
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Sound
Stunts:
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[Stunt Double]
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