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Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American crime comedy film produced, co-written and directed by Billy Wilder. It stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, with George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee and Nehemiah Persoff in supporting roles. The screenplay by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is based on a screenplay by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan from the 1935 French film Fanfare of Love. Set in the Prohibition era, the film is about two musicians (Curtis and Lemmon) who disguise themselves as women to escape Chicago mobsters they witnessed commit murder.
- Director
- Billy Wilder
- Writer
- I. A. L. Diamond · Billy Wilder · Robert Thoeren
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- Release date
- 19 March 1959 · Released
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Country of origin
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Genres
- Drama · Comedy · Crime · Musical · Romantic Comedy · LGBT-related · Gangster
- Also known as
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- Deutsch
- Manche mögen’s heiß
- Français
- Certains l'aiment chaud
- Italiano
- A qualcuno piace caldo
- 日本語
- お熱いのがお好き
- 한국어
- 뜨거운 것이 좋아
- Polski
- Pół żartem, pół serio
- Português
- Quanto mais Quente Melhor
Data from Wikidata (CC0). Description adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): Wikipedia · Poster from Wikimedia Commons.