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Release Date:
29 March 1959 (USA)
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Tagline:
The movie too HOT for words! more
Plot:
When two musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all female band disguised as women, but further complications set in. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Won Oscar.
Another 10 wins
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8 nominations
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NewsDesk:
(59 articles)
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As hot as it gets
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Marilyn Monroe | ... | Sugar Kane Kowalczyk | |
| Tony Curtis | ... | Joe - 'Josephine' / 'Junior' | |
| Jack Lemmon | ... | Jerry - 'Daphne' | |
| George Raft | ... | Spats Colombo | |
| Pat O'Brien | ... | Det. Mulligan | |
| Joe E. Brown | ... | Osgood Fielding III | |
| Nehemiah Persoff | ... | Little Bonaparte | |
| Joan Shawlee | ... | Sweet Sue | |
| Billy Gray | ... | Sig Poliakoff | |
| George E. Stone | ... | Toothpick Charlie | |
| Dave Barry | ... | Beinstock | |
| Mike Mazurki | ... | Spats' henchman | |
| Harry Wilson | ... | Spats' henchman | |
| Beverly Wills | ... | Dolores | |
| Barbara Drew | ... | Nellie |
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Also Known As:
Not Tonight, Josephine! (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
120 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
Mexico:A |
Canada:A (Nova Scotia) |
Canada:G (Quebec) |
Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) |
Singapore:PG |
USA:Approved (PCA #19281) |
Brazil:Livre |
USA:PG-13 (DVD version) |
Finland:K-16 (1959) |
Finland:S (1987) |
South Korea:15 |
Portugal:M/12 |
Norway:15 (re-rating) |
Norway:16 (original rating) |
New Zealand:PG |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:PG |
Chile:14 |
France:-12 (original rating) |
France:U (re-rating) |
Spain:13 |
Sweden:11 (re-release) |
Sweden:15 |
UK:A (original rating) |
UK:U (video rating) (1989) |
West Germany:16
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Premiere voted this movie as one of "The 50 Greatest Comedies Of All Time" in 2006.
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Goofs:
Anachronisms: Early in the movie, Joe says, "Maybe the Dodgers will leave Brooklyn," which is of course funny because the movie came out in 1959, one year after the Dodgers moved to L.A. But the movie is set in 1929, and from 1914 to 1931 the Brooklyn baseball team was known as the Robins, not the Dodgers.
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Quotes:
[first lines]
Mulligan: All right, Charlie; that the joint?
Toothpick Charlie: Yes, sir.
Mulligan: Who runs it?
Toothpick Charlie: I already told you.
Mulligan: Refresh my memory.
Toothpick Charlie: Spats Columbo.
Mulligan: That's very refreshing; what's the password?
Toothpick Charlie: "I've come to Grandma's funeral." Here's your admission card.
[he gives Mulligan a mourning armband]
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Mulligan: All right, Charlie; that the joint?
Toothpick Charlie: Yes, sir.
Mulligan: Who runs it?
Toothpick Charlie: I already told you.
Mulligan: Refresh my memory.
Toothpick Charlie: Spats Columbo.
Mulligan: That's very refreshing; what's the password?
Toothpick Charlie: "I've come to Grandma's funeral." Here's your admission card.
[he gives Mulligan a mourning armband]
[...]
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Nel cuore della notte (2002)
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Soundtrack:
Sweet Georgia Brown
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FAQ
What does the title mean? What do some like "hot"?Which actor played which girl?
Where do Joe and Jerry get the clothes, wigs, and makeup to dress up as girls?
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A Comedy that has it all, and lacks absolutely nothing. "Nobody's perfect" may be an inherent truism, but "Some Like it Hot" is a definite somebody in the universe of cinema, thus it IS perfect in every sense. Swing, sex and slapstick, (three words that immediately come to mind when trying to describe it) , are a mix so delicious, so fruitful in its possibilities that one cannot imagine a film which can live up to them, and yet this one does. Marilyn, her trademark, displeasingly infantile voice aside, is a bombshell of thermonuclear dimensions, whose powers of titillation will not expire so long as there are hormones and/or Viagra. The sexual content, for socio-historical reasons cannot be as explicit as we've come to expect, but there's still plenty of it, from Monroe's see-through outfit to the double entendre worthy of the Farelli Brothers ("What do I do if it's an emergency ? - Pull the emergency break!" ), including overtly gay themes that have a cult following of their own. The Lemmon/Curtis duo operates with gleeful, unrestrained vitality that can only be likened to Chaplin in his heyday. Though not a Musical, the combustive energy of this movie is so stimulating it almost makes you get up and dance.