Some Like It Hot

1959. USA. Produced and directed by Billy Wilder. A Mirisch Company Presentation/United Artists. Screenplay by Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond. With Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon. The first of Mirisch’s eight collaborations with Wilder is still the paragon of the comic burlesque, with some of the most uproarious one-liners and gags ever written for the screen. Curtis and Lemmon, on the run from mobster George Raft after witnessing the St. Valentine’s Day massacre, masquerade in drag in an all-girl band, with Curtis falling hard for Marilyn Monroe’s Sugar Kane and Lemmon fending off the advances of millionaire fop Joe E. Brown. 121 min.