Some Like It Hot

Some like it Hot (1959)

Director: Billy Wilder

Year Released: 1959

Screenplay: Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond

Cast: Marilyn Monroe (Sugar Kane); Tony Curtis (Joe/Josephine); Jack Lemmon (Jerry/Daphne); George Raft (Spats Colombo); Joe E. Brown (Osgood Fielding III)

Introduction

I watched this movie on a DVD with my friends because it has been the greatest American comedy film and achieved the Golden Globe Award for the Best Actress too. The movie is about two broke musicians who lived in Chicago and have been the only witness of the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre and are being wanted by the gangsters as they are the only two witnesses of the massacre. So in order to find their survival, they dressed up like girls and joined an all women jazz band that were travelling towards Florida (Monroe, 1959).

Synopsis

The two male musicians, Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) got a job performing in Urbana and end up witnessing the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre. Being the only witness of the massacre and to save themselves from the gangsters, they both dressed up as girls performing as Josephine and Daphyne in the Sweet Sue's all girl orchestra.

Discussion

[49:52 min] In this scene Jerry dressed as Daphyne just tumbles over the stairs and loses one of his shoes. Just beside him, a man named Osgood helps him to wear his shoes. Osgood helps him to carry the luggage of Daphyne and on their way Osgood introduces himself to Daphyne. Osgood has a very fascinating style of talking to impress him. They move into a lift and came down while Osgood tried to misbehave with Daphyne (Monroe, 1959).

[69: min] Sugar Cane sings in her delightful voice. Everybody in the audience kept on dancing while the orchestra keeps playing. Joe and Jerry keep on playing the orchestra while Osgood gifts Jerry flowers and Joe ...