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Some Like It Hot is an American
Cinema of the United States

United States cinema has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century. Its history is sometimes separated into four main periods: the silent film era, Classical Hollywood cinema, New Hollywood, and the contemporary period ....
 comedy film
Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on Humour. Also, films in this style typically have a happy ending . One of the oldest genres in film, some of the very first silent movies were comedies....
 directed by Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder was an Austrian-United States journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter, and film producer, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films....
 and starring Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, model, and a sex symbol.After spending much of her childhood in foster homes, Monroe began a career as a model, which led to a film contract in 1946....
, Tony Curtis
Tony Curtis

Tony Curtis is an United States film acting. He is best known for light comic roles, especially as a musician on the run from gangsters in Some Like It Hot with Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe....
, and Jack Lemmon
Jack Lemmon

'John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III' was an United States actor known principally for his comedic roles. He starred in over 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Days of Wine and Roses , Irma La Douce, The Odd Couple , The Out-of-Towners , Glengarry Glen Ross , The China Syndrome and JFK ....
. The supporting cast includes George Raft
George Raft

George Raft was an American film actor identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s....
, Joe E. Brown
Joe E. Brown (comedian)

Joseph Evans Brown was an United States actor and comedian. In 1902 at the age of 10, he joined a troupe of circus tumblers known as the Five Marvellous Astons which toured the country on both the circus and vaudeville circuits....
, Pat O'Brien
Pat O'Brien (actor)

Pat O'Brien was an American movie actor with over 100 screen credits....
, and Nehemiah Persoff
Nehemiah Persoff

Nehemiah Persoff Born in what is now part of Israel, Persoff emigrated with hisfamily to the United States in 1929. He began to take an interest in acting in the 1940s, and after serving in the Army during World War II, he began to pursue his acting career in the New York Theatre District....
. The film was adapted by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond from the story by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan. Logan had already written the story – but without the gangsters – for a German
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 film, Fanfaren der Liebe (directed by Kurt Hoffmann
Kurt Hoffmann

Kurt Hoffmann was a German film director. He directed 48 films between 1938 in film and 1971 in film....
, 1951
1951 in film

The year 1951 in film involved some significant events....
), so that Wilder's film is seen by some as a remake
Remake

A "remake" is a term used to describe something that has been done again, sometimes with better quality and more features....
.

In 1981, after the worldwide success of the French comedy La Cage aux Folles
La Cage aux Folles

La Cage aux Folles is a musical theatre with a book by Harvey Fierstein and lyrics and music by Jerry Herman. Based on the 1973 La Cage aux Folles by Jean Poiret and subsequent 1978 France-Italy La Cage aux Folles , the musical focuses on a gay couple: Georges, the manager of a Saint-Tropez nightclub featuring Drag queen entertainment,...
, United Artists
United Artists

United Artists Entertainment LLC is an United States film studio. The current United Artists was formed in November 2006 under a partnership between producer/actor Tom Cruise and his production partner, Paula Wagner, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., an MGM company....
 re-released Some Like It Hot to theaters.






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Quotations


Real diamonds! They must be worth their weight in gold!

We're up the creek and you want to hack the paddle!

of Jerry He has an empty stomach and it's gone to his head.

Will you look at that! Look how she moves! It's like Jell-O on springs. Must have some sort of built-in motor or something. I tell you, it's a whole different sex!

to Sugar The ship is in ship-shape shape.

The movie too HOT for words!






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Some Like It Hot is an American
Cinema of the United States

United States cinema has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century. Its history is sometimes separated into four main periods: the silent film era, Classical Hollywood cinema, New Hollywood, and the contemporary period ....
 comedy film
Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on Humour. Also, films in this style typically have a happy ending . One of the oldest genres in film, some of the very first silent movies were comedies....
 directed by Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder was an Austrian-United States journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter, and film producer, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films....
 and starring Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, model, and a sex symbol.After spending much of her childhood in foster homes, Monroe began a career as a model, which led to a film contract in 1946....
, Tony Curtis
Tony Curtis

Tony Curtis is an United States film acting. He is best known for light comic roles, especially as a musician on the run from gangsters in Some Like It Hot with Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe....
, and Jack Lemmon
Jack Lemmon

'John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III' was an United States actor known principally for his comedic roles. He starred in over 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Days of Wine and Roses , Irma La Douce, The Odd Couple , The Out-of-Towners , Glengarry Glen Ross , The China Syndrome and JFK ....
. The supporting cast includes George Raft
George Raft

George Raft was an American film actor identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s....
, Joe E. Brown
Joe E. Brown (comedian)

Joseph Evans Brown was an United States actor and comedian. In 1902 at the age of 10, he joined a troupe of circus tumblers known as the Five Marvellous Astons which toured the country on both the circus and vaudeville circuits....
, Pat O'Brien
Pat O'Brien (actor)

Pat O'Brien was an American movie actor with over 100 screen credits....
, and Nehemiah Persoff
Nehemiah Persoff

Nehemiah Persoff Born in what is now part of Israel, Persoff emigrated with hisfamily to the United States in 1929. He began to take an interest in acting in the 1940s, and after serving in the Army during World War II, he began to pursue his acting career in the New York Theatre District....
. The film was adapted by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond from the story by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan. Logan had already written the story – but without the gangsters – for a German
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 film, Fanfaren der Liebe (directed by Kurt Hoffmann
Kurt Hoffmann

Kurt Hoffmann was a German film director. He directed 48 films between 1938 in film and 1971 in film....
, 1951
1951 in film

The year 1951 in film involved some significant events....
), so that Wilder's film is seen by some as a remake
Remake

A "remake" is a term used to describe something that has been done again, sometimes with better quality and more features....
.

In 1981, after the worldwide success of the French comedy La Cage aux Folles
La Cage aux Folles

La Cage aux Folles is a musical theatre with a book by Harvey Fierstein and lyrics and music by Jerry Herman. Based on the 1973 La Cage aux Folles by Jean Poiret and subsequent 1978 France-Italy La Cage aux Folles , the musical focuses on a gay couple: Georges, the manager of a Saint-Tropez nightclub featuring Drag queen entertainment,...
, United Artists
United Artists

United Artists Entertainment LLC is an United States film studio. The current United Artists was formed in November 2006 under a partnership between producer/actor Tom Cruise and his production partner, Paula Wagner, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., an MGM company....
 re-released Some Like It Hot to theaters. In 2000
2000 in film

The year 2000 in film involved some significant events....
, the American Film Institute
American Film Institute

The American Film Institute is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B....
 listed Some Like It Hot as the greatest American comedy film of all time
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs

Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs is a list of the top 100 comedy movies in American cinema. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute on June 14, 2000....
.

Plot

Two struggling musicians, Joe and Jerry (Curtis and Lemmon), witness what looks like the Saint Valentine's Day massacre of 1929. When the Chicago gangsters, led by 'Spats' Columbo (Raft) spot them, the duo flee for their lives. They escape and decide to leave town, only to find the sole out-of-town jobs available are in an all-girl band headed to Florida
Florida

Florida is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the northeast....
. The two disguise themselves as women, calling themselves Josephine and Geraldine (later Jerry changes his pseudonym to Daphne), join the band and board a train. Joe and Jerry both fall for "Sugar Kane" (Monroe), the band's sexy vocalist and ukulele
Ukulele

The ukulele , , or abbreviated to uke, is a chordophone classified as a Pizzicatoed lute; it is a subset of the guitar family of musical instruments, generally with four nylon or gut strings or four Course of strings....
 player, and fight for her affection while maintaining their disguises.

In Florida, Joe woos Sugar by assuming a second disguise as a millionaire named "Junior", the heir to Shell Oil
Shell Oil Company

Shell Oil Company is the United States-based affiliate of Royal Dutch Shell, a multinational corporation oil company of Anglo Netherlands origins, which is amongst the largest oil company in the world....
, while mimicking Cary Grant
Cary Grant

Archibald Alec Leach , better known by his stage name, Cary Grant, was a British-born American actor. With his distinctive yet not quite placeable accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man, handsome, virile, charismatic and charming....
's voice. An actual millionaire, Osgood Fielding III (Brown), falls for Jerry in his Daphne guise. One night Osgood asks Daphne out to his yacht. Joe convinces Daphne to keep Osgood ashore while he goes on the yacht with Sugar. That night Osgood proposes to Daphne who, in a state of excitement, accepts, believing he can finagle a large settlement from Osgood immediately following their wedding ceremony.

When the mobsters arrive at the same hotel for a conference honoring "Friends of Italian Opera", Spats and his gang spot Joe and Jerry. After several humorous chases (and witnessing yet another mob murder), Jerry, Joe, Sugar, and Osgood escape to the millionaire's yacht. Enroute, Sugar tells Joe that she's in love with him and not with "Junior". Jerry, for his part, tries to explain to Osgood that he cannot marry him, but Osgood is oblivious to all of Jerry's objections and remains determined—to the very end—to go through with the marriage; finally, Jerry removes the wig and yells, "I'm a man!", prompting Osgood to utter the movie's memorable last line: "Well, nobody's perfect."

Cast

  • Marilyn Monroe
    Marilyn Monroe

    Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, model, and a sex symbol.After spending much of her childhood in foster homes, Monroe began a career as a model, which led to a film contract in 1946....
     as 'Sugar' Kane Kowalczyk
  • Tony Curtis
    Tony Curtis

    Tony Curtis is an United States film acting. He is best known for light comic roles, especially as a musician on the run from gangsters in Some Like It Hot with Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe....
     as Joe/"Josephine"/"Junior"
  • Jack Lemmon
    Jack Lemmon

    'John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III' was an United States actor known principally for his comedic roles. He starred in over 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Days of Wine and Roses , Irma La Douce, The Odd Couple , The Out-of-Towners , Glengarry Glen Ross , The China Syndrome and JFK ....
     as Jerry/"Daphne"
  • George Raft
    George Raft

    George Raft was an American film actor identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s....
     as 'Spats' Colombo
  • Pat O'Brien
    Pat O'Brien (actor)

    Pat O'Brien was an American movie actor with over 100 screen credits....
     as Detective Mulligan
  • Joe E. Brown
    Joe E. Brown (comedian)

    Joseph Evans Brown was an United States actor and comedian. In 1902 at the age of 10, he joined a troupe of circus tumblers known as the Five Marvellous Astons which toured the country on both the circus and vaudeville circuits....
     as Osgood Fielding III
  • Nehemiah Persoff
    Nehemiah Persoff

    Nehemiah Persoff Born in what is now part of Israel, Persoff emigrated with hisfamily to the United States in 1929. He began to take an interest in acting in the 1940s, and after serving in the Army during World War II, he began to pursue his acting career in the New York Theatre District....
     as 'Little Bonaparte'
  • Joan Shawlee
    Joan Shawlee

    Joan Shawlee was an American actress who appeared in over thirty films, all of which were small roles. Her most notable roles were small roles in Jack Lemmon films....
     as Sweet Sue
  • Billy Gray as Sig Poliakoff
  • George E. Stone
    George E. Stone

    George E. Stone was a character actor in movies, radio, and television....
     as 'Toothpick' Charlie
  • Dave Barry as Beinstock
  • Mike Mazurki
    Mike Mazurki

    Mike Mazurki was an American actor and professional wrestling who appeared in over 100 movies. His towering 6' 5" presence and intimidating face usually got him roles playing tough guys, thugs, strong men, and gangsters....
     as Spats's henchman
  • Harry Wilson
    Harry Wilson (actor)

    Harry Wilson was an American character actor who appeared in over 200 films from 1928 through 1965. He was born in London, England.He was also a stand-in for Wallace Beery....
     as Spats's henchman
  • Beverly Wills as Dolores
  • Barbara Drew as Nellie
  • Edward G. Robinson, Jr. as Johnny Paradise


Production

The film was originally planned to be filmed in full color, but after several screen tests, it had to be changed to black and white because of a very obvious 'green tint' around the heavy make-up required by Curtis and Lemmon when portraying Josephine and Daphne. The Florida segment was filmed at the Hotel Del Coronado
Hotel del Coronado

The Hotel del Coronado is a beachfront luxury hotel in the city of Coronado, California, just across the San Diego Bay from San Diego, California....
 in Coronado, California
Coronado, California

Coronado is an affluent city in San Diego County, California, California, United States. The population was 24,100 at the 2000 census. Coronado is Spanish for "the crowned one," and thus it is nicknamed The Crown City....
.

Some Like It Hot received a "C" (Condemned) rating from the Catholic Legion of Decency. The film, along with Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, Order of the British Empire was a British filmmaker and film producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres....
's Psycho
Psycho (1960 film)

Psycho is an Cinema of the United States Thriller /thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, from the screenplay by Joseph Stefano. It is based on the Psycho by Robert Bloch, which was in turn inspired by the crimes of Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein....
 (1960
1960 in film

The year 1960 in film involved some significant events....
) and several other films, led to the end of the Production Code
Production Code

File:Code hays, cover.gifThe Production Code was the set of industry censorship guidelines, and the office enforcing them, which governed the production of Cinema of the United States from 1930 to 1968....
 in the mid-1960s. It was released by United Artists
United Artists

United Artists Entertainment LLC is an United States film studio. The current United Artists was formed in November 2006 under a partnership between producer/actor Tom Cruise and his production partner, Paula Wagner, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., an MGM company....
 without the MPAA logo in the credits or title sequence, since the film did not receive Production Code approval.

Tony Curtis is frequently quoted as saying that kissing Marilyn Monroe was like "kissing Hitler." In a 2001 interview with Leonard Maltin, Curtis stated that he never made this claim. In his 2008 autobiography, Curtis notes that he did say the line to the film crew, but it was meant in a joking manner.

The film's title is a line in the nursery rhyme
Nursery rhyme

The term nursery rhyme is used for ?traditional? songs for young children in Britain and many English speaking countries, but usage only dates from the nineteenth century and in North America the older ?Mother Goose Rhymes? is still often used....
 "Pease Porridge Hot
Pease Porridge Hot

"Pease Porridge Hot" or "Pease Pudding Hot" is a children's game and nursery rhyme....
." It also occurs as dialogue in the film when Joe, as "Junior", tells Sugar he prefers classical music over hot jazz. The film's working title was "Not Tonight, Josephine".

Awards and honors

The film won an Academy Award
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
 for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White
Academy Award for Costume Design

This Academy Awards was first given for films made in 1948 when separate awards were given for black-and-white and color movies....
 (Orry-Kelly
Orry-Kelly

File:Dolores Del Rio-I Live For Life-2.JPGOrry-Kelly was the professional name of George Orry Kelly , a prolific Hollywood costume designer....
) and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Academy Award for Best Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
 (Jack Lemmon), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White
Academy Award for Best Art Direction

The Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in film. The Academy Award for Best Art Direction recognizes achievement in art director#Film on a film....
 (Ted Haworth
Ted Haworth

Ted Haworth was an American production designer and art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated five more times in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
, Edward G. Boyle
Edward G. Boyle

The career of set decorator Edward G. Boyle really kicked off in the early 30s, when he started working on the first of over 100 films. His successful filmography includes such interesting credits as an uncredited assist on the wartorn old South in Victor Fleming's classic Gone with the Wind , the Nazi-influenced designs for Charles Cha...
), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
Academy Award for Best Cinematography

The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is an Academy Award awarded each year to a cinematographer for work in one particular motion picture....
, Best Director
Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the film industry....
 and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay

The Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States. It is awarded each year to the screenwriter of a Adapted_screenplay from another source ....
.

It won the Golden Globe for Best Comedy. Marilyn Monroe won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in Musical or Comedy, and Jack Lemmon for Best Actor in Musical or Comedy.

The film has been acclaimed worldwide as one of the greatest film comedies ever made. In 1989, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry
National Film Registry

The National Film Registry is the registry of films selected by the United States National Film Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of Congress....
 by the Library of Congress
Library of Congress

The Library of Congress is the de facto national library of the United States and the research arm of the United States Congress. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and holds the largest number of books....
 as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant," going in on the first year of voting.

In 2000, readers of Total Film
Total Film

Total Film, published by Future Publishing, is the United Kingdom's second best-selling film magazine. It offers film and DVD news, reviews, and features....
 magazine voted it the eighth greatest comedy film of all time. In 2002, Channel 4
Channel 4

Channel 4 is a UK Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom television broadcaster which began transmissions on 2 November 1982. Although commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the #Channel Four Television...
 ranked Some Like It Hot as the fifth greatest film ever made in their 100 Greatest Films Poll.

American Film Institute
American Film Institute

The American Film Institute is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B....
 recognition
  • 1998 - AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
    AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies

    The first of the AFI 100 Years... series of cinematic milestones, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies is a list of the 100 best American movies, as determined by the American Film Institute from a poll of more than 1,500 artists and leaders in the film industry who chose from a list of 400 nominated movies....
     - #14
  • 2000 - AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs
    AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs

    Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs is a list of the top 100 comedy movies in American cinema. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute on June 14, 2000....
     - #1
  • 2005 - AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes
    AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes

    Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes is a list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema. The American Film Institute revealed the list in June of 2005 in a three-hour television program on CBS....
    :
    • "Well, nobody's perfect." - #48
  • 2007 - AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)
    AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)

    AFI?s 100 Years...100 Movies ? 10th Anniversary Edition was the 2007 updated version of AFI's 100 Years 100 Movies. The original list was first unveiled in 1998....
     - #22


Soundtrack

  • "I'm Through With Love", by Gus Kahn
    Gus Kahn

    Gustav Gerson Kahn was a musician, songwriter and lyricist....
    , Matty Malneck
    Matty Malneck

    Matty Malneck was an American jazz violinist, violist and songwriter.Malneck's first professional gigs as a violinist began when he was age 16....
    , Jay Livingston
    Jay Livingston

    Jay Livingston was a partner with Ray Evans in a composer and songwriter duo best known for songs composed for films. Livingston wrote the music and Evans the lyrics....
    . Performed by Marilyn Monroe.
  • "I Wanna Be Loved By You", by Bert Kalmar
    Bert Kalmar

    Bert Kalmar was an United States lyricist.He was born in New York, New York. He ran away from home at the age of 10 to become a Magician at a tent show, and retained an interest in magic all his life....
    , Herbert Stothart
    Herbert Stothart

    Herbert Stothart was a song writer, arranger, and composer. He was also nominated for nine Oscars, winning for his background music for The Wizard of Oz ....
    , Harry Ruby
    Harry Ruby

    Harry Ruby was an United States songwriter and screenwriter.Born in New York, Ruby failed in his early ambition to become a professional baseball player....
    . Sung by Monroe.
  • "Some Like It Hot", by Matty Malneck and I.A.L. Diamond. Performed by Monroe
  • "Runnin' Wild", by A.H. Gibbs, Joe Grey, Leo Wood
    Leo Wood

    Leo Wood was a songwriter and lyricist for popular songs in the United States. He is best remembered as the songwriter of the 1920?s hit Somebody Stole My Gal....
    . Sung by Monroe.
  • "Down Among the Sheltering Palms", by Olmar-Brockman.
  • "Sugar Blues", by Williams-Fletcher.
  • "By the Beautiful Sea", by Harry Carroll
    Harry Carroll

    Harry Carroll, a famous United States songwriter, pianist and composer, was born on November 28, 1892 in Atlantic City and died December 26, 1962 in Mt....
    , Harold Atteridge.
  • "Sweet Georgia Brown
    Sweet Georgia Brown

    "Sweet Georgia Brown" is a jazz standard and pop tune written in 1925, known to many as the theme song of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team....
    ", by Ben Bernie
    Ben Bernie

    Ben Bernie , born Bernard Anzelevitz, was an American jazz violinist and radio personality, often introduced as The Old Maestro. He was noted for his showmanship and memorable bits of snappy dialogue....
    , Maceo Pinkard
    Maceo Pinkard

    Maceo Pinkard was an United States composer, lyricist, and Music publisher . He is the songwriter who made "Sweet Georgia Brown" a popular standard for decades after its composition, became most popular after the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team began using it as an anthem....
    , Kenneth Casey
    Kenneth Casey

    Kenneth Casey was a United States composer, publisher, author and child actor.He is best remembered as the lyricist for the song "Sweet Georgia Brown"....
    .
  • "La Cumparsita", written by Gerardo Matos Rodríguez
    Gerardo Matos Rodríguez

    Gerardo Rodr?guez Sotelo , also known as Becho, was an Uruguay musician, composer and journalist. His best known work for the Tango music is La Cumparsita....
    .
  • "Stairway to the Stars", music by Matt Malneck and Frank Signorelli
    Frank Signorelli

    Frank Signorelli was an United States jazz pianist of the 1920s. He was a founder member of the Original Memphis Five in 1917, then joined the Original Dixieland Jazz Band briefly in 1921....
    .


Adaptations

In 1972, a musical play
Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining music, songs, spoken dialogue and dance. The emotional content of the piece ? humor, pathos, love, anger ? as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated whole....
 based on the screenplay of the film, entitled Sugar
Sugar (musical)

Sugar is a 1972 Broadway theater Musical theatre based on the screenplay for the film Some Like it Hot, which was written by Billy Wilder and I.A.L....
, opened on Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
, starring Elaine Joyce
Elaine Joyce

Elaine Joyce is an United States stage and television actress....
, Robert Morse
Robert Morse

Robert Morse is an United States actor. Morse is best known for his appearances in musicals and Play on Broadway theatre, and has also acted in movies and TV shows....
, Tony Roberts
Tony Roberts (actor)

David Anthony "Tony" Roberts is an United States actor. He is frequently confused with actor Ron Perlman....
 and Cyril Ritchard
Cyril Ritchard

File:Cyril Ritchard & Eddie Mayehoff VtaSP.jpgCyril Ritchard was an Australian theatre, film and television actor, and television director....
, with book by Peter Stone
Peter Stone

Peter Stone was a writer for theater, television and movies. He was born in Los Angeles, California. His father John Stone was the writer and producer of many silent films, including Shirley Temple and Charlie Chan movies....
, lyrics by Bob Merrill
Bob Merrill

Bob Merrill was an United States songwriter, theatre composer and lyricist, and screenwriter.Merrill was born Henry Levan in Atlantic City, New Jersey and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
, and (all-new) music by Jule Styne
Jule Styne

Jule Styne was a United Kingdom-born United States songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway theatre musical theatre, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows....
. A 1991 production of this show in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
 featured Tommy Steele
Tommy Steele

Tommy Steele Order of the British Empire is an England entertainer. Steele is widely regarded as Britain's first teen idol and rock 'n' roll star....
 and retained the original title. In 2002, Tony Curtis performed in a stage production of the film. He portrayed the character originally played by Joe E. Brown.

In popular culture

  • A scene from the film where Monroe is talking to Curtis in a railway washroom ("My spine turns to custard, I get goose-pimply all over") was used and specially re-edited in a series of popular TV adverts in the UK for Holsten
    Holsten

    Holsten-Brauerei AG is a beer brewery founded in 1879 in what is now Hamburg's Altona-Nord, Hamburg quarter. The name Holsten is the Danish version of Holstein....
     Pils in the early 1990s, featuring Griff Rhys Jones
    Griff Rhys Jones

    Griffith Rhys Jones , better known as Griff Rhys Jones, is a Wales comedian, writer and actor. He came to national attention in the 1980s when he starred with Mel Smith in a number of Sketch comedy programmes on British TV....
    .
  • In the Blackadder Goes Forth
    Blackadder Goes Forth

    Blackadder Goes Forth is the fourth and final series of the BBC situation comedy Blackadder, written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, which aired from 28 September to 2 November 1989....
     episode Major Star, Lieutenant George ends up in a similar situation when he is urged to dress as a woman. He looks similar to Daphne, and becomes the romantic pursuit of General Melchett.
  • In the Johnny Bravo
    Johnny Bravo

    Johnny Bravo is an American List of animated television series created by Van Partible. It premiered on July 7, 1997 on Cartoon Network and ran for 65 episodes and 4 seasons....
     episode "Some Like It Stupid" (the title itself an obvious parody), Johnny and Carl disguise themselves as female beauty pageant contestants and board a bus to escape a mobster. Johnny later falls for a fellow contestant, Norma (who repeats a paraphrase of Monroe's "goose-pimply" line multiple times), and at the end of the episode, every contestant is revealed to be a man.
  • An upcoming episode title for Season 5 of Lost is "Some Like It Hoth". This is both a reference to "Some Like It Hot" and "The Empire Strikes Back" where a Rebel base is on the ice planet called Hoth.

"Nobody's perfect!"

The film's last line has frequently been parodied:
  • In the Torchwood
    Torchwood

    Torchwood is a United Kingdom science fiction on television drama television programme, created by Russell T Davies and starring John Barrowman and Eve Myles....
     episode "To the Last Man
    To the Last Man (Torchwood)

    "To the Last Man" is the third List of Torchwood episodes of the second series of British science fiction on television series Torchwood, which was broadcast by BBC Two on 30 January 2008....
    ", as "Gwen: He's a frozen soldier from 1918./Jack: [grinning] Nobody's perfect."
  • In the film Independence Day
    Independence Day (film)

    Independence Day is a 1996 in film science fiction film about a hostile alien invasion of Earth, focusing on a disparate group of individuals and families as they coincidentally converge in the Nevada desert and, along with the rest of the human population, participate in a last-chance retaliation effort on July 4....
    , as "Albert Nimzicki: I'm not Jewish./Julius Levinson: Nobody's perfect."


See also

  • Cross-dressing in film and television
    Cross-dressing in film and television

    Cross-dressing in motion pictures began in the early days of the silent films. Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel brought the tradition of female impersonation in the English music halls when they came to America with Fred Karno's comedy troupe in 1910....


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  • Roger Ebert
    Roger Ebert

    Roger Joseph Ebert born June 18, 1942) is an United States film criticism and screenwriter.He is known for his film review column and for two television programs Sneak Previews and At the Movies , which he co-hosted for a combined 23 years with Gene Siskel....
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