Some Like It Hot
Studio: The Mirisch Company, United Artists
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis
Director: Billy Wilder
Writer: I. A. L. Diamond, Billy Wilder, Robert Thoeren
Producer: Billy Wilder
Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American crime comedy film produced, co-written and directed by Billy Wilder. It stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, with George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee and Nehemiah Persoff in supporting roles. 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.
Trivia
- Won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White.
- Selected for the National Board of Review: Top Ten Films.
- Also nominated for: Academy Award for Best Actor; Academy Award for Best Director; Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White; Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay; and 1 more.
- Based on Fanfares of Love (1951 film by Kurt Hoffmann).
- Billy Wilder wrote the script for the film with writer I. A. L. Diamond.
- The plot was based on a screenplay by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan for the 1935 French film Fanfare of Love (Fanfare d'amour).
- The original script for Fanfare of Love was untraceable, so Walter Mirisch found a copy of the 1951 German remake, Fanfares of Love (Fanfaren der Liebe).
Filming Locations
- San Diego
- Many scenes were shot at the Hotel del Coronado in Coronado, California, which appeared as the "Seminole Ritz Hotel" in Miami in the film, as it fit into the era of the 1920s and was near Hollywood.
Previous Showings
12 Runs • 9 Festivals
29,708 tickets sold
Original Billings: 1 run (June 8, 1939)
Original Run: June 8, 1939 (Thursday - Saturday)
All runs on record (12):
- June 8, 1939 (Thursday - Saturday)Bob Hope, Shirley Ross
- March 25 - April 7, 1994 · 6,113 ticketsw/ The Apartment
- August 31 - September 3, 1996 · 2,141 ticketsw/ The Apartment
- June 17 - 29, 2000 · 5,162 ticketsSummer 2000w/ Marilyn Monroe, The Apartment, Jack Lemmon
- June 29 - July 5, 2001 · 2,885 ticketslemmonw/ It Should Happen to You
- July 4 - 9, 2002 · 4,549 ticketssummer02w/ The Apartment
- October 25 - 26, 2003 · 823 ticketsSatyajit Ray 2003w/ Abhijan (The Expedition)
- October 1 - 6, 2005 · 2,205 ticketsSummer 2005w/ It Should Happen to You
- October 20 - 23, 2007 · 1,042 ticketsFall 2007 The Films of Frank Capra, plus other favoritesw/ Sunset Boulevard
- October 16 - 17, 2009 · 1,018 tickets20th Anniversary Festivalw/ The Apartment
- September 27 - 28, 2025 · 1,633 ticketsSummer 2025w/ The Apartment
- June 17 - 21, 2026 · 2,137 ticketsSummer 2026 including the Films of Marilyn Monroew/ The Seven Year Itch