Some Like It Hot
1959 film directed by Billy Wilder
Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American comedy movie starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Pat O'Brien, Jack Lemmon and George Raft, and directed by Billy Wilder. It is seen by some as a remake of the 1951 German movie, Fanfaren der Liebe. (Michael Logan wrote the story for the version) The movie is set in 1929. It has been remade for the stage twice (in 1972 and 2002). It was ranked at Number One on the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs list and fourteen on the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies list.
| Some Like It Hot | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Billy Wilder |
| Written by | Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond |
| Produced by | Billy Wilder |
| Starring | Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Marilyn Monroe, Joe E. Brown, Grace Lee Whitney |
| Cinematography | Charles Lang |
| Edited by | Arthur P. Schmidt |
| Music by | Adolph Deutsch |
Production companies | Ashton Productions, The Mirisch Corporation |
| Distributed by | United Artists (theatrical), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (DVD) |
Release date | March 29, 1959 |
Running time | 120 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2.9 million |
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Quotations related to Some Like It Hot at Wikiquote
- Some Like It Hot on IMDb
- Fanfaren der Liebe on IMDb
- JenFlick.com Review Archived 2006-01-15 at the Wayback Machine
- Roger Ebert's Great Movies review Archived 2007-08-06 at the Wayback Machine
