Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis keep this joyous Billy Wilder comedy fizzing from start to finish
"I tell you … it's a whole different sex!" This is the awed insight from the terrified 20s Chicago musician Jerry, played by Jack Lemmon, in Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy Some Like It Hot — now on re-release. He is disguised as a woman to escape scary gangsters, and so is his buddy Joe, played by Tony Curtis. They will get up close and personal with a girl-band on a night-train to Florida, including the demure ukulele player Sugar Kane, superbly played by Marilyn Monroe, demonstrating the most famous lip-pursing mannerism since Mae West: somewhere between a pout and a moue.
As well as everything else, it is the best remake in movie history: reworked from a 1951 German comedy that Wilder had discovered called Fanfares of Love written by Peter Thoeren and Michael Logan,...
"I tell you … it's a whole different sex!" This is the awed insight from the terrified 20s Chicago musician Jerry, played by Jack Lemmon, in Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy Some Like It Hot — now on re-release. He is disguised as a woman to escape scary gangsters, and so is his buddy Joe, played by Tony Curtis. They will get up close and personal with a girl-band on a night-train to Florida, including the demure ukulele player Sugar Kane, superbly played by Marilyn Monroe, demonstrating the most famous lip-pursing mannerism since Mae West: somewhere between a pout and a moue.
As well as everything else, it is the best remake in movie history: reworked from a 1951 German comedy that Wilder had discovered called Fanfares of Love written by Peter Thoeren and Michael Logan,...
- 7/17/2014
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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