Films

April, 1959

FilmsMarilyn Monroe sings, acts and necks in Some Like It Hot, which is wild, wild,wild, and larded with clever purple wisecracks about the gangsters, girl dance bands and free-wheeling libertines of the Twenties. The screenplay by Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond goes as follows: Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon are a couple of broke musicians who are forced to make like broads in order to join a Florida-bound girl band – it's the only way they can escape gang leader George Raft. While celebrating...