Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American black-and-white romantic comedy film directed and produced by Billy Wilder. It is considered to be one of the greatest films of all time and received six Academy Award nominations. The film was produced without approval from the Motion Picture Production Code because it plays with the idea of homosexuality and features cross-dressing. It was released in the U.S. on February 14, 1959, and in the UK on February 15, 1959.
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Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American black-and-white romantic comedy film 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. Brown, Joan Shawlee, Grace Lee Whitney, and Nehemiah Persoff. The film was produced without approval from the Motion Picture Production Code because it plays with the idea of homosexuality and features cross-dressing. It is considered to be one of the greatest films of all time and received six Academy Award nominations. In 1989, the Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” It was voted as the top comedy film by the American Film Institute on their list on AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Laughs poll in 2000, and was selected as the best comedy of. all time in a poll of 253 film critics from 52 countries conducted by the BBC in 2017. The overwhelming success of Some Like it Hot is considered one of. the final nails in the coffin for the Hays Code, which had been gradually weakening in scope since the early 1950s, but it was still officially enforced until the mid-1960s. 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.
The film is about two musicians who dress in drag in order to escape from mafia gangsters whom they witnessed committing a crime. The film opened to critical and commercial success and is considered by many to be a classic of the 1950s and 1960s. It was released in the U.S. on February 14, 1959, and in the UK on February 15, 1959. It has been released in Europe and Australia on February 16, 1959 and in Australia on March 16, 2009. The UK version of the film was released on March 8, 2009, and the U.,S. release on March 17, 2009 and the UK release on April 8, 2010. The US version of this film is available on Blu-Ray, DVD, Blu-ray, and Blu- ray, as well as on DVD in the US and Europe. The U.K. release of the movie has been delayed until April 14, 2010, by the distributor, Warner Brothers. The movie was released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the release of The Godfather: Part II, a biopic about the life of Robert De Niro, who played the lead role in the original film, Robert Mitchum. The British release was on April 11, 2011, and it was released the next day, on April 13, 2011. The American release was the day after the 40th birthday of the late Robert DeNiro, the father of the lead character in the film, Bobbi Kristina Brown, who died in a car accident. The second film is released on April 16, 2012.
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