CINEMA: SOME LIKE IT HOT

Film directed by Billy Wilder in 1959,
AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE AWARD: # 1 Comedy
"AMERICA's 100
GREATEST COMEDIES

1. Some Like It Hot (1959) - Ashton/Mirisch
Director: Billy Wilder
Stars: Jack Lemmon; Tony Curtis; Marilyn Monroe, Joe E. Brown, George Raft

Wilder's comic take on the 1928 St. Valentine's Day Massacre finds Lemmon and Curtis as musicians who witness a gangland killing in Chicago and need to get out of town fast. Disguised as women, they join an all-girl band headed for Miami, where Curtis doffs his wig and chases Monroe while millionaire Brown falls for Lemmon's alter ego, Daphne. When confronted with the truth about Lemmon's gender, Brown utters the film's memorable last line - "Well, nobody's perfect.""

Spanish title: CON FALDAS Y A LO LOCO
(aka) UNA EVA Y DOS ADANES
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CLYDE McCoy.- "Best remembered for his theme song, ''Sugar Blues,'' trumpet player Clyde McCoy's career spanned almost seven decades. McCoy's range of techniques was wide. He could make his trumpet talk and cough in ways which few other artists could equal, and his distinctive ''wah-wah'' sound thrilled audiences around the country, turning him into a popular star.

McCoy's outfit slowly worked their way to the Big Apple. Though they found steady employment on the East Coast real success eluded them, and in 1924 McCoy relocated the group to California. After spending a few years in the Los Angeles area the band began to tour. By that time McCoy had started to use a trumpet mute to produce the ''wah-wah'' that became his signature. Fame finally found him in 1930 when he first performed ''Sugar Blues'' at the Drake Hotel in Chicago. The song was an instant hit. Radio broadcasts brought national approval, and McCoy soon signed with the Columbia label, for whom his recording of that number sold several million copies in early 1931."

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• 1959
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[ww245]

What is the name of that tune when this video starts? I cannot remember but it's a clyde mccoy tune, isn't it? Great tribute to the movie for sure!

[albertdiner]

Thank you for your letter. It is Clyde McCoy´s

hit SUGAR BLUES. The song was used in the

movie in the scene where Marilyn Monroe

(Sugar Kane) enters the movie at the train

station. Clyde mcCoy´s version of the song

is still the best, and it has become a classic.

[ballerinaash6140]

LMAO!!! whats with the picture at 7:06?!?! thats not in the movie!!!

[albertdiner]

This is a birthday party celebration for

director Billy Wilder. Definately not in the movie, but that cake and the gangsters were

in a scene from the movie.

[Badgirl221000]

Tony Curtis - prince of the Golden Age.

Toni Curtis was fantastically beautiful man...

[rosebudtm1]

The most sexy woman I've ever seem in my life, don't you agree?

[ilovesexilovenaked]

name the best 3 asses ever ?

[monceau27]

nice: thank you!

[valetony77]

Akways a pleasureto see this movie ... tony Jack and Marilyn are awesome !