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Some Like It Hot by Billy Wilder

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Some Like It Hot Quotes
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Some Like It Hot is a 1959 film about two musicians who, after accidentally witnessing the Saint Valentine's Day massacre, disguise themselves as women and flee south in an all-female band. Directed by Billy Wilder . Written by Robert Thoeren and...


Director Biography

Name: Billy Wilder
Variant Name: Samuel Wilder
Birth Date: June 22, 1906
Place of Birth: Sucha, Poland
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: director, screenwriter, producer

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Biography of Billy Wilder
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Although Billy Wilder won fame for directing films, especially several brilliant ones between 1944 and 1960, he was always a screenwriter. He never directed a film he did not write; his writing career has spanned more than fifty years. Nurtured in the st...
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Biography of Billy Wilder
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Billy Wilder (born 1906) has been honored repeatedly as one of Hollywood's finest directors, writers, and producers. He created more than 50 films, encompassing such well-known comedies as The Apartment and Some Like It Hot and award-winning dramas inclu...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Some Like It Hot Summary
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Some Like It Hot, a critically acclaimed farcical romp produced by United Artists and directed by Billy Wilder, premiered at Loew's Capitol Theatre on Broadway in 1959. Set in Chicago in the 1920s, the film stars Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon as...
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Some Like It Hot Information
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Some Like It Hot is a 1959 comedy film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon. The supporting cast includes George Raft, Joe E. Brown, Pat O'Brien, and Nehemiah Persoff. The film was adapted by Billy Wilder...


News and Journals
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Countryside & Small Stock Journal
Some like it HOT.
09/01/2000: 984 words, approx. 3 pages
Every day, across the country, macho guys puff themselves up and walk into little stores specializing in hot sauce to ask, "What's the hottest thing you've got ?" Move over Tabasco, the ultrahotsauce craze has arrived. In fact, some of the exceedingly...
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The Out Traveler
Some Like It Hot!
04/01/2008: 480 words, approx. 2 pages
Brini Maxwell and friends travel in the footsteps of Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, and Tony Curtis from Billy Wilder's 1959 Hollywood gem, shot on location at San Diego's stunning Hotel del Coronado. Named the number 1 comedy of all time by the American...
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AP News
1998 AFI list of top-100 movies
6/21/2007: 496 words, approx. 2 pages
The American Film Institute's original 1998 list of the top-100 American movies:1. "Citizen Kane," 1941.2. "Casablanca," 1942.3. "The Godfather," 1972.4. "Gone With the Wind," 1939.5. "Lawrence of Arabia," 1962.6. "The Wizard of Oz," 1939.7. "The Graduate," 1967.8. "On the Waterfront," 1954.9. "Schindler's List," 1993.10. "Singin'...
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AP News
2007 AFI list of top-100 movies
6/21/2007: 493 words, approx. 2 pages
The American Film Institute's 2007 list of the top-100 American movies:1. "Citizen Kane," 1941.2. "The Godfather," 1972.3. "Casablanca," 1942.4. "Raging Bull," 1980.5. "Singin' in the Rain," 1952.6. "Gone With the Wind," 1939.7. "Lawrence of Arabia," 1962.8. "Schindler's List," 1993.9. "Vertigo," 1958.10. "The Wizard of Oz,"...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Stanley Kauffmann
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"Nobody's perfect." Possibly that is the most famous last line of any American film. Well, nobody, nothing, is perfect—perhaps; but the picture that closes with that line [Some Like It Hot] is almost the exception to the rule. It may be somewhat ungrateful to call a very funny film a masterpiece; it sounds like an attempt to take it out of human circulation. Still Billy Wilder has brought it on himself. What is worse, I have to insist that this unfailingly delightful farce is a t...
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Critical Essay by Peter John Dyer
216 words, approx. 1 pages
[Some Like It Hot] will not appeal to those who find female impersonation unamusing in any circumstances; and certainly, since it also contains two painfully accurate re-creations of gangland slaughter, its opportunities for offence are considerable. In fact the gangster sequences are the least successful part of the film. There is too much random detail and intramural humour … and the whole could be cut by at least one bloodbath. The horrifying Al Capone reunion dinner, for instance, is effectively ...


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