Overview of Some Like It Hot, 1959, directed by Billy Wilder, with Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, at Turner Classic Movies. The latest critic and user reviews, photos and cast info for Some Like It Hot. Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American romantic comedy film set in 1929, directed and produced by Billy Wilder, starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon. The supporting cast includes George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. GET INFORMED. Industry information at your fingertips. GET CONNECTED. Over 200,000 Hollywood insiders. GET DISCOVERED. Enhance your IMDb Page. Go to IMDbPro ยป |. Two struggling musicians witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and try to find a way out of the city before they are found and killed by the mob. The only job that will pay their way is an all girl band so the. In their hotel room, the wacky Jerry/Daphne gleefully reports to Joe-sephine about how enamoured he is about going up the aisle. Osgood has proposed marriage after a night of liberating tango dancing. Euphoric. Watch online full movie: Some Like It Hot (1959), for free. When two musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all female band disguised as women, but further complications set in. Director: Billy Wilder. Http:// 1. Go to www.classicmovieslibrary.com TIP: Easily find any movie by using the search function, just enter anything about the movie (title, director, actor etc) 2. Purchase. Watch Some Like It Hot (1959) Online Free Full Movie Putlocker. When two Chicago musicians, Joe and Jerry, witness the the St. Valentine's Day massacre, they want to get out of town and get away from the gangster respon. The all-time outrageous, satirical, comedy farce favorite, Some Like It Hot (1959) is one of the most hilarious, raucous films ever made. The ribald film is a clever combination of many elements: a spoof of 1920.Some Like It Hot (1. Background The all- time outrageous, satirical, comedy farce favorite. Some Like It Hot (1. The ribald film is a clever combination of many elements: a spoof. In fact, one of the film's. Joe's disguise as a Cary Grant- like impotent millionaire. Jerry's happiness with a real wealthy, yacht- owning retiree. It's also a black and white film (reminiscent of the early film. Marx Brothers and Mack Sennett comedies. An. earlier Bob Hope film had the same title: Some Like It Hot (1. The film's working title was Not Tonight, Josephine! Napoleon Bonaparte's response when refusing sex with. Empress Josephine). The exceptional film was the all- time highest- grossing comedy. Wilder's. funniest comedy in his career. The film was inspired by director Kurt. Hoffmann's German movie comedy/musical Fanfares of Love (1. Fanfaren der Liebe) with a similar plot element that writer/director Wilder. Florida, after witnessing a gang- land massacre in Prohibition- Era. Chicago and being pursued by the mob. The gangland slaying in the film. Chicago's infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Feb, 1. 4, 1. 92. Only a few other cross- dressing. Tootsie. (1. 98. 2), La Cage Aux Folles (1. Victor/Victoria (1. Some Like It Hot also inspired the. Broadway musical Sugar that opened in 1. This was Marilyn Monroe's second film with director Billy. Wilder, her first being The Seven Year Itch (1. Countless stories have circulated regarding her erratic behavior and health/personal. Director Billy Wilder's original choice for the role of Sugar. Mitzi Gaynor, not Marilyn Monroe, and after Tony Curtis was signed. Danny Kaye and Frank Sinatra were considered for the second male lead. Lemmon was signed. The film's preview in December 1. LA theatre. (The Bay Theatre in Pacific Palisades), when it was paired with the Tennessee. Williams Southern drama Suddenly. Last Summer (1. 95. The conservative, middle- aged audience was unenthusiastic. Westwood Village. This extremely funny film, very much unlike director Wilder's. Double Indemnity (1. Sunset. Boulevard (1. The movie. too HOT for words" - vaguely referring to either sex, jazz, or the. It was released at the end of the repressive 1. Production Code and its censorship restrictions. However, the Catholic. League of Decency strongly complained about the film, calling it "seriously. Christian and traditional standards of morality and decency". Director- producer Wilder had purposely challenged the system. Marilyn Monroe, an outrageous and. This great film received six Academy Award nominations including Best Actor. Jack Lemmon), Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay (co- scripting by I. A. L. Diamond and Billy Wilder from a story suggested by Robert Thoeren and M. Logan). Best B/W Cinematography, and Best B/W Art Direction/Set Decoration - with. Oscar awarded for Best B/W Costume Design (Orry- Kelly, for costumes. Marilyn Monroe's shimmering gowns). Unfortunately, it was competing. Oscar history - Ben. Hur (1. 95. 9). The Story. It is Chicago, 1. Depression, crime- rampant. Prohibition Era - [the film has many identifying parallels to duplicate the. A hearse bearing a casket and mug- faced mobsters. The. police fire shots at the fleeing hearse, and the mobsters retaliate with. The casket inside is riddled with bullets, and fluid gushes. Instead of bearing a body, the casket. The hearse delivers its cargo to the Mozarella Funeral Parlor. Police cars surround the parlor from every. Across the street from the funeral parlor, Toothpick Charlie. George E. Stone) [his trademark is a cheap toothpick dangling from his. Police Sergeant Mulligan (Pat O'Brien) that the password. Spats Colombo (George Raft), is "I've come to Grandma's. To get a ringside table (a good seat in the pews), he must tell. Toothpick Charlie worries about being. If Colombo sees me, it's gonna be 'Goodbye Charlie'."The sergeant enters the solemn front room and with proper. The sergeant reacts: "Well, if you gotta go, that's the way to do it." Seated. Scotch coffee, Canadian coffee, sour mash coffee": Sergeant: Better bring a check in case the joint is raided. Waiter: Who's gonna raid a funeral? Sergeant: Some people got no respect for the dead. The Parlor is a front for a speakeasy owned by gangster. Spats Colombo, known for his white spats [usually, the view of Spats is. Two indebted musicians. Joe (Tony Curtis) and bass player Jerry (Jack. Lemmon) discuss how they are going to use their first weeks' pay check. Joe wants to bet their entire first week's salary at the dog races ("put. Greased Lightning"). He assures his pal that even if they lose at the races on their "shoo- in,". Jerry isn't so sure. All of Joe's historical. Pickford and Fairbanks, and the Brooklyn Dodgers' move to. Los Angeles.]: Jerry: Suppose he loses? Joe: What are you worried about? This show is gonna last a long time. Jerry: Suppose it doesn't? Joe: Jerry boy, why do you have to paint everything so black?. Suppose you. got hit by a truck. Suppose the Stock Market crashes. Suppose. Mary Pickford divorces Douglas Fairbanks. Suppose the Dodgers leave. Brooklyn.. Suppose Lake Michigan overflows. The police raid the speakeasy and round up everyone, while. Joe and Jerry are forced out of a job and sneak out with their instruments. Spats, obsessed with the cleanliness of his white shoes. He introduces his thugs as his lawyers when threatened with arrest by the. These are my lawyers. All Harvard men."Jerry and Joe, hapless musicians, are out of work again. Joe suggests they pawn their overcoats to a bookie. Greased Lightning. Joe is confident: "Tomorrow, we'll have twenty. After a dissolve, they appear on a Chicago street in the. Look at the bow fiddle. It's dressed warmer than I am. Searching for employment, they walk down a long corridor with doors leading. Joe: Anything today? Receptionist: Nothing. Joe: Thank you..(THE ABOVE REPEATED TWICE)Jerry: I can't go on, Joe. I'm weak from hunger. I'm running a fever. I've. got a hole in my shoe.. When Joe proposes hocking their bass and sax, Jerry objects: "We're up the. At Sig Poliakoff's (Billy Gray). Bands for All Occasions Placement Agency, a secretary named Nellie (Barbara. Drew), who was recently stood- up on a Saturday night date by the studly Joe. Oh, it's you. Well, you've got a lot of nerve.. What a heel! I. spent four dollars to get my hair marcelled [waved], I buy me a brand new. I bake him a great big pizza pie - and where were you? To be forgiven, Joe quickly fabricates a serious medical excuse - that is. Jerry. The first of many Type O blood and transfusion. Joe: I had to take him to the hospital and give him a blood. Right? Jerry: Right. We've got the same type blood. Joe: Type O. Nellie: OH? They beg to be offered a job, and then learn that there is. Florida available for a bass and sax player, with all transportation. Nellie is seeking revenge. Poliakoff's office - the positions are for female musicians. Sweet Sue (Joan Shawlee), milquetoast manager Beinstock (Dave Barry) and. Society Syncopaters, an all- girl jazz band traveling to Miami, Florida. Seminole Ritz but the music leader is in. The saxophone runs off with a Bible salesman and the. Inside Sig's office, Joe and Jerry are told that they don't. Florida job: Poliakoff: The instruments are right but you're not.. Jerry: Wait a minute. What's wrong with us? Poliakoff: You're the wrong shape. Goodbye. Joe: The wrong shape. What are you looking for? Hunchbacks or something? Poliakoff: It's not the backs that worry me. Joe: What kind of a band is it anyway? Poliakoff: You gotta be under 2. Jerry: (insisting) We could pass for that. Poliakoff: You gotta be blonde. Jerry: We could dye our hair. Poliakoff: And you gotta be girls. Jerry: We could.. Joe: (cutting him off) No, we couldn't. Desperate for a job, Jerry suggests that they take it, but. Joe thinks he's crazy: "He's got an empty stomach and it's gone to his head.". Jerry has a brilliant idea: We could borrow some clothes from the girls in the. We get a couple of second- hand wigs, a little padding here and there. Josephine and Geraldine. The two accept another offer instead - a one- night stand. St. Valentine's Dance at the University of. Illinois at Urbana, 1. After Joe hustles and. Nellie into lending them her car, they pick up the borrowed vehicle. Charlie's Garage in Chicago. As they are filling it up. Joe proposes to dishonestly charge the gas to Nellie's account), they. St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Rival gangsters are. Spats emerges from a vehicle - shoes first. He. seeks vengeance on Toothpick Charlie and his gang for informing on him and. Spats' speakeasy. The gangland killer bids Charlie. Goodbye, Charlie"), averts his eyes, and signals the. On a day dedicated to love and valentines, death comes. When the gas tank overflows and leaks gas onto the floor. Joe's and Jerry's hiding place within the garage. That spells the musicians' doom, for they are identified (with their instrument. Spat's gang for witnessing the massacre. For the moment, however, they are spared when a wounded Charlie reaches for. Spats bloodies him with a machine- gun and then emasculates him further. Police sirens momentarily divert. Jerry: I think they got me. Joe: They got the bow fiddle. Jerry: No blood? Joe: If they catch us, they'll be blood all over. Type O. Come on! To Jerry's amazement, Joe calls Poliakoff from a cigar shop. Florida on the 8 o'clock overnight Florida Limited. They erase their masculinity. They also adopt. new names: "Josephine" (Joe) and "Geraldine" (Jerry). In the smooth transition to the next scene, they have reluctantly completed. Jerry. is unaccustomed to wearing female clothes and a wig and he worries that their. Jerry: How do they walk in these things, huh? How do they keep their balance? Joe: It must be the way the weight is distributed. Now, come on. Jerry: It's so drafty. They must be catching cold all the time, huh? Joe: Will you quit stalling? We're gonna miss the train. Jerry: I feel naked. I feel like everybody's staring at me! Joe: With those legs, are you crazy? Now, come on. When they first see the band's ukelele- playing, voluptuous. Sugar Kane Kowalczyk (Marilyn Monroe).
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
December 2016
Categories |