Some Like It Hot (1939)

Cast

Complete credited cast:
	Bob Hope	...	Nicky Nelson
	Shirley Ross	...	Lily Racquel
	Una Merkel	...	Flo Saunders
	Gene Krupa	...	Gene Krupa
	Rufe Davis	...	Stoney
	Bernard Nedell	...	Stephen Hanratty
	Frank Sully	...	Sailor Burke / The Living Corpse
	Bernadene Hayes	...	Miss Marble
	Richard Denning	...	Mr. Weems
	Clarence Wilson	...	Mr. Ives
	Dudley Dickerson	...	Sam
	Harry Barris	...	Harry, Piano Player
	Wayne 'Tiny' Whitt	...	Bass Fiddler
	J. Scott Smart	...	Joe - Hamburger Man (as Jack Smart)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Bobby Dease	...	Man

Storyline

Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the sidewalk to attract the customers, "The Living Corpse" and other low-rent acts aren't enough to lure the seen-it-all boardwalk strollers, and the landlord closes the show in lieu of never-paid rent. Nicky, always promoting, goes to Stephen Hanratty, head of the pier's Dance Pavilion, to plug Krupa's band as an attraction, but Hanratty won't even listen to them. But, while there, he meets singer Lily Racquel, who knows he is a phoney but might have the ability to to talk a radio-station manager into giving her an audition. She gives him a ring to help finance the project; he promptly loses it in a crap-game. Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>  

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