Some like it hot ( Some Like it Hot ) is an American film of Billy Wilder left in 1959.

Synopsis

A hearse is continued by a vehicle of police force. Shootings are exchanged. It is able to escape in order to go to deliver its invaluable loading of alcohol of smuggling. It is the Chicago of 1929, into full Prohibition. The police force makes a descent in the clandestine gambling den, including two musicians, Joe the saxophonist and Jerry the double bass player, manage to flee. The following day, they run the seal. Whereas they will seek a car to go to their new engagement, they are pilot of a slaughter between rival bands of the Mafia. In order to escape the reprisals, they are made enlist in an orchestra of women and thus owe Travesti R consequently.

Data sheet

• Title: Some like it hot
• original Titer: Nap Like it Hot
• Realization: Billy Wilder
• Scenario: Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond, according to a subject of Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan
• Image: Charles Lang Jr.
• Music: Adolph Deutsch
• Sound: Fred Lau, Eve Newman
• Assembly: Arthur Schmidt
• Production: Billy Wilder for the United Artists
• Country: the United States
• Lasted: 116 min
• Format: Black and white
• Date of the American exit: March 29th 1959

Casting

• Marilyn Monroe : Sugar Kane
• Tony Curtis: Joe/Joséphine/Junior
• Jack Lemmon: Jerry/Daphne
• George Raft: " Spats" Colombo
• Stalemate O' Brien: Mulligan
• Joe E. Brown: Osgood Fielding III
• Nehemiah Persoff: Bonaparte

Around film

The hotel used as decoration to evoke Florida is the hotel Del Coronado Hotel of San Diego in California.

Distinctions

Rewards

• Oscars 1960. With gained the Oscar of the best costumes films n/b: Orry-Kelly.

• BAFTA 1960. With gained the price of the best foreign actor: Lemmon jack. At named summer but the price did not gain: better foreign film, Billy Wilder.

• Golden Globes 1960. Better film of comedy; better actor in a comedy, Lemmon Jack; better actress, Marilyn Monroe.

• Writers Guild off America 1960 (association of the American scenario writers). Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond gain the price of the best scenario of comedy.

• Laurel Awards 1960 : Marilyn Monroe gained the second price of the best actresses of the year in a comedy.

Nominations

• Some like it hot was nominated for the following rewards but did not gain them: better actor, Lemmon Jack; artistic director films n/b, Ted Haworth and Edward G. Boyle; better photography, Charles Lang; better realizer, Billy Wilder; better scenario of adaptation, Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond. It should be specified that Some like it hot contributed the same year as the Ben-Hur of William Wyler.

• Directors Guild off America 1960 (association of the American realizers). At nominated summer but the price did not gain: Billy Wilder like better realizer.

• Grammy Awards 1959: the film was nominated but did not gain the price of the best original soundtrack.

Remarks

• a remark that Tony Curtis would have made in aside during the viewing of rushes made the round the world tour. Exasperated by the ceaseless delays of Marilyn Monroe like its lack of safety in work and the many catches to be carried out, Curtis would have commented on that “to embrace Marilyn Monroe, it was like embracing Hitler. ” Remarks formally contradicted by the interested party, on several occasions, in particular in a report on film made in 2001 for the needs for its exit DVD.
• Marilyn interprets the following songs: Running Wild , I' m Through With Coils and I Wanna Be Loved By You .

External bonds

• Card IMDb

Simple: Summon Like It Hot

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