Some Like It Hot (1959)






Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an all-girl band as they leave on a tour. To make their getaway they must first disguise themselves as women, then keep their identities secret and deal with the problems this brings - such as an attractive bandmate and a very determined suitor.


Film programs

Film für Sie nr. 39/68

Books on Some Like It Hot

Tony Curtis with Mark A. Vieira
The making of "Some like it hot", My memories of Marilyn Monroe and the classic American movie
Hoboken, N.J., 2010

Books with substantial mentioning of Some Like It Hot

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Sandra Kühle
Remakes, Amerikanische Versionen europäischer Filme
Remscheid, 2006

Jürgen Müller (ed.)
Movies of the 50s
Köln, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Paris, Tokyo, 2005

Roger Ebert
The Great Movies
2003

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Peter W. Engelmeier (ed.)
Icons of film, The 20th century
Munich; New York, 2000

Kathryn Bernheimer
The 50 Funniest Movies of All Time, A Critic's Ranking
Secaucus, NJ, 1999

Danny Peary
Alternate Oscars, One Critic's Defiant Choices for Best Picture, Actor, and Actress - From 1927 to the Present
New York, 1993

Neil Sinyard
Classic Movies
London, 1993

Peter van Gelder
Offscreen Onscreen, The inside stories of 60 great films
London, 1990

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1990, A Survey of the Films of 1989
Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1990

Bert Cardullo
Indelible Images, New Perspectives on Classic Films
Lanham - New York - London, 1987

Joe Baltake
The films of Jack Lemmon
Secaucus, NJ, 1977

Douglas Brode
The Films of the Fifties
Secaucus, NJ, 1976

Mark Conway and Mark Ricci
The Films of Marilyn Monroe
Secaucus, NJ, 1972

Articles on Some Like It Hot

Simon Braund, Some Like It Hot, in: Empire, nr. 210 (December), 2006 pp. 198-199

Reviews

Helen O'Hara, Forever Marilyn, in: Empire, nr. 278 (August), 2012 pp. 142-143 (DVD review)