Some Like It Hot
Some Like It Hot | |
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Mirisch Company | |
Distributed by | United Artists |
Release date |
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Running time | 121 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $2.9 million[2] |
Box office | $49 million[2] |
Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American
Some Like It Hot opened to critical and commercial success and is considered to be one of the
The film was produced without approval from the
Plot
In February 1929, in
Joe and Jerry become obsessed with Sugar and compete for her affection while maintaining their disguises. Sugar confides to "Josephine" that she has sworn off male saxophone players, who have taken advantage of her in the past. She hopes to find a gentle, bespectacled millionaire in Florida. During the forbidden drinking and partying on the train, "Josephine" and "Daphne" become close friends with Sugar, and struggle to remember that they are supposed to be girls and cannot make passes at her.
Once in Miami, Joe woos Sugar by assuming a second disguise as millionaire Junior, the heir to
The hotel hosts a conference for "Friends of Italian Opera", which is a major meeting of the national crime syndicate, presided over by "Little Bonaparte". Spats and his gang recognize Joe and Jerry as the witnesses they have been looking for. Joe and Jerry, fearing for their lives, realize they must quit the band and leave the hotel. Joe conceals his deception from Sugar by telling her, over the telephone, that he, Junior, must marry a woman of his father's choosing and move to Venezuela for financial reasons. Sugar is distressed and heartbroken. Joe and Jerry evade Spats' men by hiding under a table at the syndicate banquet. "Little Bonaparte" has Spats and his men killed at the banquet; again, Joe and Jerry are witnesses and they flee through the hotel. Joe, dressed as Josephine, sees Sugar onstage singing a lament to lost love. He runs onto the platform and kisses her, causing Sugar to realize that Josephine and Junior are the same person.
Jerry persuades Osgood to take "Daphne" and "Josephine" away on his yacht. Sugar runs from the stage at the end of her performance and jumps aboard Osgood's launch just as it is leaving the dock with Joe, Jerry, and Osgood. Joe confesses the truth to Sugar and tells her that she deserves better, but Sugar wants him anyway, realizing he is the first man to genuinely care for her. Meanwhile, Jerry tries to get out of his promise to marry Osgood, by listing reasons why "Daphne" and Osgood cannot marry, ranging from a smoking habit to infertility. Osgood, smiling broadly, has answers for all of them. Exasperated, Jerry rips off the wig, switches to his normal voice, and says "I'm a man!" Still smiling, Osgood replies "Well, nobody's perfect", leaving Jerry speechless.
Cast
- Marilyn Monroe as Sugar "Kane" Kowalczyk, a ukulele player and singer
- Tony Curtis as Joe/"Josephine"/"Shell Oil Junior", a saxophone player
- Jack Lemmon as Jerry/"Jerraldine" and later "Daphne", a double bass player
- Joe E. Brown as Osgood Fielding III
- George Raft as "Spats" Colombo, a mobster from Chicago
- Pat O'Brien as Agent Mulligan
- Nehemiah Persoff as "Little Bonaparte", a mobster and leader of the "Friends of Italian Opera Society"
- Joan Shawlee as Sweet Sue, the bandleader of "Sweet Sue and Her Society Syncopators"
- Dave Barry as Mister Bienstock, the band manager for "Sweet Sue and Her Society Syncopators"
- Billy Gray as Sig Poliakoff, Joe and Jerry's agent in Chicago
- Barbara Drew as Nellie Weinmeyer, Poliakoff's secretary
- Grace Lee Whitney as Rosella (Fiddle)[citation needed]
- George E. Stone as "Toothpick" Charlie, a gangster who is killed by "Spats" Colombo
- Mike Mazurki as Spats's henchman
- Harry Wilson as Spats's henchman
- Edward G. Robinson Jr. as Johnny Paradise, a gangster who kills "Spats" Colombo
- Beverly Wills as Dolores, a trombone player, and Sugar's apartment friend
- Al Breneman as the bellboy (uncredited)[7]
Soundtrack
Some Like It Hot: Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack | |
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Soundtrack album | |
Released | 24 February 1998 |
Genre | Soundtrack Jazz |
Length | 32:22 |
The soundtrack features four songs performed by Marilyn Monroe, nine songs composed by Adolph Deutsch, as well as two songs performed by jazz artist Matty Malneck.[8]
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Runnin' Wild" (Marilyn Monroe) | 1:07 |
2. | "Medley: Sugar Blues/Running Wild" (Adolph Deutsch & His Orchestra) | 1:32 |
3. | "Down Among the Sheltering Palms" (Adolph Deutsch & His Orchestra) | 1:59 |
4. | "Randolph Street Rag" (Adolph Deutsch) | 1:28 |
5. | "I Wanna Be Loved by You" (Marilyn Monroe) | 2:58 |
6. | "Park Avenue Fantasy" (Adolph Deutsch & His Orchestra) | 3:34 |
7. | "Medley: Down Among the Sheltering Palms / La Cumparsita / I Wanna Be Loved By You" (Adolph Deutsch & His Orchestra) | 2:20 |
8. | "I'm Thru With Love" (Marilyn Monroe) | 2:34 |
9. | "Medley: Sugar Blues / Tell the Whole Damn World" (Adolph Deutsch & His Orchestra) | 3:25 |
10. | "Play It Again Charlie" (Adolph Deutsch) | 1:49 |
11. | "Sweet Georgia Brown" (Matty Malneck & His Orchestra) | 2:57 |
12. | "By the Beautiful Sea" (Adolph Deutsch & His Orchestra) | 1:22 |
13. | "Park Avenue Fantasy (Reprise)" (Adolph Deutsch & His Orchestra) | 2:10 |
14. | "Some Like It Hot" (Matty Malneck & His Orchestra) | 1:46 |
15. | "Some Like It Hot (Single Version)" (Marilyn Monroe) | 1:21 |
Total length: | 32:22 |
Production
Pre-production
Billy Wilder wrote the script for the film with writer I. A. L. Diamond.[9] The plot was based on a screenplay by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan for the 1935 French film Fanfare of Love.[10] The original script for Fanfare of Love was untraceable, so Walter Mirisch found a copy of the 1951 German remake, Fanfares of Love. He bought the rights to that script, and Wilder worked with this to produce a new story.[10] Both films follow the story of two musicians in search of work,[9] but Wilder created the gangster subplot that keeps the musicians on the run.[11]
The studio hired female impersonator Barbette to coach Lemmon and Curtis on gender illusion for the film.[10] Monroe worked for 10 percent of the gross in excess of $4 million, Curtis for 5 percent of the gross over $2 million, and Wilder for 17.5 percent of the first million after break-even and 20 percent thereafter.[12]
Casting
Tony Curtis was spotted by Billy Wilder while he was making the film
According to York Film Notes, Wilder and Diamond did not expect a star as big as Marilyn Monroe to take the part of Sugar.[9] "Mitzi Gaynor was who we had in mind", Wilder said. "The word came that Marilyn wanted the part and then we had to have Marilyn."[17] Wilder and Monroe had made the film The Seven Year Itch together in 1955.
It was George Raft's first "A" picture in a number of years.[18]
Filming
The film was made in
There were many problems with Marilyn Monroe, who lacked concentration and suffered from an addiction to pills. She was constantly late to set, and could not memorize many of her lines, averaging 35–40 takes for a single line according to Tony Curtis.[21] The line "It's me, Sugar" took 47 takes to get correct because Monroe kept getting the word order wrong, saying either "Sugar, it's me" or "It's Sugar, me". Curtis and Lemmon made bets during the filming on how many takes she would need to get it right.[22] Three days were scheduled for shooting the scene with Shell Jr. and Sugar at the beach, as Monroe had many complicated lines, but the scene was finished in only 20 minutes.[23] Monroe's acting coach Paula Strasberg and Monroe's husband Arthur Miller both tried to influence the production, which Wilder and other crew members found annoying.[24][25]
Wilder spoke in 1959 about making another film with Monroe: "I have discussed this with my doctor and my psychiatrist and they tell me I'm too old and too rich to go through this again."[26] But Wilder also admitted: "My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?"[27] He also stated that Monroe played her part wonderfully.[28] Years later, Wilder noted "I think there are more books on Marilyn Monroe than there are on World War 2, and there's a great similarity."[29]
The film's closing line, "Well, nobody's perfect", is ranked 78th on The Hollywood Reporter list of Hollywood's 100 Favorite Movie Lines, but it was never supposed to be in the final cut. Diamond and Wilder put it in the script as a "placeholder" until they could come up with something better, but they never did.[30] Wilder's tombstone pays homage to the line by reading, "I'm a writer, but then, nobody's perfect". In 2000, The Guardian ranked the closing scene at No. 10 on their list of "The top 100 film moments".[31]
Style
With regard to sound design, there is a "strong musical element"[9] in the film, with the soundtrack created by Adolph Deutsch. It has an authentic 1920s jazz feel using sharp, brassy strings to create tension in certain moments, for example whenever Spats's gangsters appear. In terms of cinematography and aesthetics, Wilder chose to shoot the film in black and white as Lemmon and Curtis in full drag costume and make-up looked "unacceptably grotesque" in early color tests.[9] Despite Monroe's contract requiring the film to be in color, she agreed to it being filmed in black and white after seeing that Curtis and Lemmon's makeup gave them a "ghoulish" appearance on color film.[32] Orry-Kelly who was in charge of costume design created the costumes for Monroe[33][34] as well as Lemmon and Curtis,[35] after the stock costumes the studio provided for the male leads fit poorly.
Reception
Box office
By 1962, Some Like It Hot had grossed $14 million in the US.[36] According to The Numbers, the film ultimately grossed $25 million in the US.[37] As of 2020, it had grossed over $83.2 million internationally.[38]
The film opened in the week ended March 24, 1959, in several cities in the United States; the highest grossing of which were in Chicago, where it grossed $45,000 at the United Artists Theatre with Monroe making an appearance, and in Washington, D.C., where it grossed $40,000 at the Capitol Theatre.[39][40] With results from just six key cities, Variety listed it as the third highest-grossing film in the United States for the week.[41]
The film then expanded to 100 theatres around the country for the Easter holidays,[42] including at the newly renovated State Theatre in New York City on Sunday, March 29, 1959,[20][43] and became number one in the country and remained there for three weeks before being knocked off the top by Imitation of Life.[44] Imitation of Life was top for two weeks before being replaced again by Some Like It Hot,[45] which remained there for another four weeks before being replaced by Pork Chop Hill.[46] In its first month, the film grossed $2,585,120 from 96 engagements.[47]
Critical response
Some Like It Hot received widespread acclaim from critics and is considered among
In 1989, the film became one of the first 25 inducted into the United States National Film Registry.[53] In 1998 the film was ranked at No. 7 in Time Out's poll of "Top 100 Films".[54] In 1999 Entertainment Weekly voted it at No. 9 on their list of "100 Greatest Movies of All Time".[55]
Some Like It Hot was voted as the top comedy film by the
Awards and nominations
The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:
- 1998: AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies – No. 14[80]
- 2000: AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs – No. 1[81][82]
- 2005: AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes:
- Osgood Fielding III: "Well, nobody's perfect." – No. 48[83]
- 2007: AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) – No. 22[84]
The film was inducted in 1989 into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.[85] The Writers Guild of America ranked the film's screenplay the ninth greatest ever written.[86]
Adaptations
An unsold television pilot was filmed by
In 1975 a
A 1984 stage production at the
A 1991 stage production of this show in London featured Tommy Steele and retained the film's title.[89]
Tony Curtis, then in his late 70s, performed in a 2002 stage production of the film, this time cast as Osgood Fielding III, the character originally played by Joe E. Brown.[90][91]
Broadway
The 1972 musical Sugar, based on the film screenplay, opened on Broadway starring Elaine Joyce, Robert Morse, Tony Roberts, and Cyril Ritchard, with book by Peter Stone, lyrics by Bob Merrill, and (all-new) music by Jule Styne.[92]
On January 5, 2019,
See also
- List of American films of 1959
- Cross-dressing in film and television
- List of films considered the best
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Further reading
- Curtis, Tony (2009). The Making of Some Like It Hot. Wiley & Sons. Hoboken NJ. ISBN 978-0-470-53721-3.
- ISBN 978-0-06-176123-2.
External links
- Some Like It Hot essay by David Eldridge at National Film Registry
- Some Like It Hot essay by Danel Eagan in America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry, A&C Black, 2010 ISBN 0826429777, pp. 552–553
- Some Like It Hot at IMDb
- Some Like It Hot at AllMovie
- Some Like It Hot at the American Film Institute Catalog
- Some Like It Hot at the TCM Movie Database
- Some Like It Hot at Rotten Tomatoes
- Roger Ebert's review of Some Like It Hot
- Roger Hall's review of Adolph Deutsch's film score for Some Like It Hot Archived April 13, 2019, at the Wayback Machine
- Some Like It Hot (1959) at Virtual History
- Some Like It Hot: How to Have Fun an essay by Sam Wasson at the Criterion Collection