Some Like It Hot
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Directed by | Billy Wilder |
Produced by | Billy Wilder |
Written by | Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond |
Music by | Adolph Deutsch |
Cinematography | Charles Lang |
Editing by | Arthur P. Schmidt |
Executive producer(s) | {{{ex-prod}}} |
Starring | Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Marilyn Monroe, Joe E. Brown, Grace Lee Whitney |
Tagline | The movie too HOT for words! |
Production companies | Ashton Productions, The Mirisch Corporation |
Distributed by | United Artists (theatrical), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (DVD) |
Released | March 29, 1959 |
Running time | 120 mins |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $2.9 million |
Came after | {{{came_after}}} |
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Some Like It Hot is a 1959 comedy movie starring Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon, and directed by Billy Wilder. It is seen as some as a remake of a German movie from 1951, called Fanfaren der Liebe. (Michael Logan wrote the story for this version as well as the 1959 movie.)
Some Like It Hot has been remade for the stage twice (in 1972 and 2002).
The movie 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.
[edit] External links
- Some Like It Hot at the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
- Fanfaren der Liebe at the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
- JenFlick.com Review
- Roger Ebert's Great Movies review
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