Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American romantic comedy film made in 1929, directed and produced by Billy Wilder, starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon. Supporters include George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee, and Nehemiah Persoff. Scenario by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is based on scenarios by Billy Wilder and Michael Logan from the French film Fanfare of Love . The film tells the story of two musicians dressed in drag to escape from the gangster mafia they witnessed committing crimes inspired by the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. The film is produced in black and white, though color films are getting popular. Although Monroe's contract required a color film, he agreed to a black and white film after seeing that Curtis and Lemmon makeup gave them a "disgusting" appearance on a color film.
Some Like It Hot opened up most of the positive reviews and is currently considered one of the greatest movies of all time. It was voted the top comedy film by the American Film Institute on their list on the 100th anniversary of the 100th... 100 Laughs polls in 2000. In 2017, the film was voted the best all time comedy in a poll of 253 critics film from 52 countries conducted by the BBC in 2017. In 2005, the British Film Institute put this film into a list of 50 British films you should see at the age of 14.
The film is also famous for featuring cross dressings, and to play with the idea of ​​homosexuality, which causes it to be produced without the approval of the Moving Image Production Code. The code had gradually weakened in its scope during the early 1950s, due to increased social tolerance for previous taboo topics in the film, but it was still officially enforced. The extraordinary success of Some Like It Hot is considered one of the last nails in the coffin for the Hays Code.
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Plot
This is February 1929 in the city of Chicago, during the era of banning. Joe (Tony Curtis) is an irresponsible jazz saxophonist, gambler and male woman; his friend Jerry (Jack Lemmon) is a reasonable jazz double-bass player; both working in speakeasy (disguised as a funeral home) belonging to the mass gangster "Spats" Colombo (George Raft). When the joints were raided by the police after being informed by Charlie (George E. Stone) informant Charlie (George E. Stone), Joe and Jerry escaped - just inadvertently witnessed Spats and his accomplices demanding his revenge on "Toothpicks" and his own gang ( Inspired by the real Saint Valentine's Day Massacre). Without money and with a crazy rush to get out of town, these two musicians worked with Sweet Sue (Joan Shawlee) and Society Syncopators, a girl band heading to Miami. Disguised as women and renamed themselves Josephine and Daphne, they took the train with the band and their male manager, Bienstock. Before they boarded the train, Joe and Jerry noticed Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe), the band's vocalist and ukulele player.
Joe and Jerry become enamored of sugar and compete for affection while defending their disguises. Sugar confesses to Joe that he has sworn off a male saxophone player, who has stolen his heart in the past and left him with a "fuzzy tip of a lollipop". He has set his goal to find a beautiful, bespectacled millionaire in Florida. During the forbidden drink and partying on the train, Josephine and Daphne became close friends with Sugar, and had to struggle to remember that they were supposed to be girls and could not pass it.
Once in Miami, Joe woos Sugar assumes a second disguise as a millionaire named Junior, heir to Shell Oil, while pretending not to be interested in Sugar. A true millionaire, a long-married married boy, Osgood Fielding III, (Joe E. Brown) tries repeatedly to fetch Daphne, who rejects her. Osgood invited Daphne to eat champagne on her cruise ship. Joe assures Daphne to keep Osgood on the ground so that Junior can take Sugar to Osgood's yacht, through it as his. Once on the cruise ship, Junior explains to Sugar that, due to psychological trauma, he is powerless and cold, but that he will marry anyone who can change him. Sugar tries to generate some sexual response in junior high, and begins to succeed. Meanwhile, Daphne and Osgood dance tango ("La Cumparsita") until dawn. When Joe and Jerry return to the hotel, Jerry explains that Osgood has proposed a marriage with Daphne and that he, like Daphne, has accepted, anticipated an instant divorce and a big cash settlement when his ruse was revealed. Joe assures Jerry that he can not really marry Osgood.
The hotel hosts a conference for "Friends of Italian Opera", which is actually the front for the main meeting of the various branches of La Cosa Nostra. Spats and his gang from Chicago recognize Joe and Jerry as witnesses for Valentine's Day killing. Joe and Jerry, fearing for their lives, realized that they had to get out of the band and leave the hotel. Joe broke Sugar's heart by saying that he, Junior, had to marry a woman whose father had chosen and moved to Venezuela. After a few chases, Joe and Jerry witnessed an extra mass murder, this time Spats and his sons. Joe, dressed in Josephine, saw Sugar on stage singing that he would never love again. She kisses him before he leaves, and Sugar realizes that Joe is Josephine and Junior.
Sugar ran from the stage at the end of her performance and managed to jump to the launch of the Osgood yacht New Caledonia just as she left the dock with Joe, Jerry and Osgood. Joe tells Sugar that he's not good enough for her, that he'll get a "lollipop" feather again, but Sugar wants it. Jerry, for his part, comes up with a list of reasons why he and Osgood can not marry, from smoking to infertility. Osgood dismissed them all; she loved Daphne and was determined to get married. Annoyed, Jerry removes his wig and screams, "I'm a man!". Osgood, unaffected, just replied, "Well, nothing is perfect."
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Cast
- Marilyn Monroe as Sugar "Kane" Kowalczyk, ukulele and singer
- Tony Curtis as Joe/"Josephine"/"Shell Oil Junior", saxophone player
- Jack Lemmon as Jerry (Gerald)/"Daphne", double bass player
- George Raft as "Spats" Colombo, mafia from Chicago
- Pat O'Brien as Detective Mulligan
- Joe E. Brown as Osgood Fielding III
- Nehemiah Persoff as "Little Bonaparte," the mafia
- Joan Shawlee as Sweet Sue, group leader of "Sweet Sue and Her Society Syncopators"
- Dave Barry as Mister Beinstock, 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 secretary
- George E. Stone as "Toothpick" Charlie, a gangster who was killed by "Spats" Colombo
- Mike Mazurki as Spats hench
- Harry Wilson as Spats henchman
- Edward G. Robinson Jr. as Johnny Paradise, a gangster who killed "Spats" Colombo
- Beverly Wills as Dolores, a trombone player, and a friend of Sugar's apartment
- Al Breneman as a fresh bellboy (not verified)
- Tito Vuolo as Mr. Mozzarella, funeral director (unverified)
- Tom Kennedy as Mozzarella bouncer (not verified)
- Grace Lee Whitney as Rosella (unverified)
Soundtrack
The soundtrack features 4 songs played by Marilyn Monroe for the movie, 9 songs composed by Adolph Deutsch, and 2 songs by jazz artist Matty Malneck.
Production
Pre-production
Billy Wilder wrote the script for the movie Some One it Hot with author I.A.L. Diamond. The plot is based on a screenplay by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan of the 1935 French film Fanfare of Love . However, the original manuscript for Fanfare of Love was untraceable, so Walter Mirisch invented a copy of the 1951 Fanfares of Love 1954 German remake. He bought the rights to the script and Wilder worked with this to produce a new story. Although Some Like It Hot has been seen as a remake of Fanfare of Love, since both films follow the story of two musicians in search of work, Wilder is the creator of a gangster subplot that keeps the musicians running.
The studio hired Barbette, a famous female impersonator, to train Lemmon and Curtis about the gender illusion for the film.
Marilyn Monroe worked for 10% of gross over $ 4 million, Tony Curtis for 5% of gross over $ 2 million and Billy Wilder 17.5% of the first million after break-even and 20% thereafter.
Casting
Tony Curtis was discovered by Billy Wilder when he was filming Houdini (1953), because he thought Tony would be perfect for Joe's role. "I'm sure Tony is right for that," Wilder explains, "because he's pretty handsome, and when he tells Marilyn that he's one of the Shell Oil families, he should be able to trust it." Wilder's first idea for Jerry's role was Frank Sinatra, but he never came to the audition. Jerry Lewis and Danny Kaye are also considered for Jerry's role. Finally, Wilder sees Jack Lemmon in the Operation Mad Ball comedy and chooses him for Jerry's role. Billy Wilder and Jack Lemmon made many films together until 1981, among them The Apartment and some movies with Walter Matthau.
According to York Film Notes, Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond does not expect big stars like Marilyn Monroe to partake of the real Sugar, Wilder says, "Mitzi Gaynor is the one in our mind.The word came that Marilyn wanted that part and then we have to have Marilyn. "Wilder and Monroe have already filmed The Seven Year Itch together in 1955.
Filming
The film was made in California during the summer and fall of 1958. Many scenes were taken at Hotel del Coronado in San Diego that appeared as "Seminole Ritz Hotel" in Miami in the film. The hotel in San Diego was installed in the 1920s and was near Hollywood, so Wilder chose it even though it was not in Florida.
There are many problems with Marilyn Monroe, who lacks concentration and suffers from pills addiction. He can not memorize many of his sentences and needs 47 to get "This me, Sugar" is right, instead of saying "Sugar, it's me" or "It's Sugar, me". Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon made a bet during the filming of how much needed Marilyn needed to do it right. Paradoxically, three days for filming is scheduled for a scene with Shell Jr. and Sugar on the beach and although Marilyn has many complicated lines, the whole scene is between Shell Jr. and Sugar really finished in just 20 minutes. Monroe's acting coach Paula Strasberg and Monroe's husband, Arthur Miller, both tried to influence production, which Wilder and the rest of the crew considered disruptive.
Billy Wilder said in 1959 about filming another movie with Marilyn Monroe: "I have discussed this with my doctor and my psychiatrist and they say I am too old and too rich to go through this again." But Wilder also admitted: "My Aunt Minnie will always be on time and never hold production, but who will pay to see my Aunt Minnie?" He also declared that Monroe played his role extraordinarily.
The iconic film cover line, "Nothing is perfect" - is now ranked 78th on the Hollywood Hollywood Movie The Hollywood Reporter list of 100 Favorite Hollywood Movies - never should have been in the final cut. Diamond and Wilder put it in the script as a "placeholder" until they could produce something better, but never did.
Style
With respect to sound design, there is a 'strong musical element' in the film, with a soundtrack made by Adolph Deutsch. It has an authentic 1920s jazz feel using sharp and rough strings to create tension in certain moments, for example whenever a Spats gangster comes up. In terms of cinematography and aesthetics, Billy Wilder chose to film black and white films like Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in costumes and makeup that look 'unreasonable' in the initial color test.
Reception
Some Like It Hot has received wide acclaim from critics, and is considered the best movie of all time. It received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Actor for Lemmon and Best Director and Best Screenplay for Wilder, the last one along with I.A.L. Diamond. It was voted the top comedy film by the American Film Institute on their list of AFI 100 years... 100 Laughs poll in 2000.
In 1962, the film grossed $ 14 million in the US.
Roger Ebert wrote of the film, "Wilder's 1959 comedy is one of the eternal treasures of films, a film about inspiration and careful craft." John McCarten of The New Yorker called the film "a cheerful and cheerful company." The Guardian ' s Richard Roud claims that Wilder came "close to perfection" with the film.
At Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 96% approval rating based on 53 reviews, and the average rating is 9 out of 10. The critical consensus of the website reads, " Some Like It Hot : A spry, a quick joke that never dragged. "
In 1989, the film became one of the first 25 to be inducted into the US National Film Register.
Although it is sometimes said to have been "condemned" by the Roman Catholic Legionary Legion, the body gave the film a less critical judgment as "morally inappropriate".
In 2017, the BBC conducted an international survey of the best comedy films in history among 253 film critics from 50 countries, ranked as # One Like It Hot as number one.
Awards and honors
The film is recognized by the American Film Institute in this list:
- 1998: AFI 100 Years... 100 Movies - # 14
- 2000: AFI 100 Years... 100 Laughs - # 1
- 2005: AFI 100 Years... 100 Quotes Movies:
- Osgood Fielding III: "Well, nothing's perfect." - # 48
- 2007: AFI 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) - # 22
Adaptation
An unsold television pilot was filmed by Mirisch Productions in 1961 featuring Vic Damone and Tina Louise. As an aid to production companies, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis agreed to film a cameo appearance, returning as their original characters, Daphne and Josephine, at the start of the pilot. Their appearance saw them in the hospital where Jerry (Lemmon) was treated for his impacted back teeth and Joe (Curtis) was the same blood type O.
In 1972, a musical-based musical drama, titled Sugar, opened on Broadway, and starred Elaine Joyce, Robert Morse, Tony Roberts and Cyril Ritchard, with a book by Peter Stone, lyrics by Bob Merrill , and music (all-new) by Jule Styne. A 1991 production stage of this show in London featured Tommy Steele and retained the title of the film. In 2002, the aging Tony Curtis appeared in the stage production of the film, playing the character originally played by Joe E. Brown (Osgood Fielding III).
See also
- List of American films in 1959
- Cross-use in movies and television
- Remake Bollywood Rafoo Chakkar
- Movie listings are considered the best
References
Further reading
- Curtis, Tony. Making Some Like It Hot , Wiley & amp; Sons, Hoboken NJ, 2009. ISBNÃ, 978-0-470-53721-3.
- Maslon, Laurence. Some Like It Hot: The Official 50th Anniversary Companion , New York, HarperCollins, 2009. ISBNÃ, 978-0-06-176123-2.
External links
- Some Like It Hot in EncyclopÃÆ'Â|dia Britannica
- Some Like It Hot on IMDb
- Some Like It Hot in AllMovie
- Some Like It Hot in the TCM Movie Database
- Some Like It Hot in Rotten Tomatoes
- Roger Ebert reviews about Some Like It Hot
- Literature
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