Some Like It Hot (1959)

Directed by
Billy Wilder

Cast
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

Taglines
The movie too HOT for words!
Marilyn Monroe and her bosom companions

Trivia
Director Billy Wilder's choice for the role of Sugar was Mitzi Gaynor, not Marilyn Monroe.

Marilyn Monroe wanted the film to be shot in color (her contract stipulated that all her films were to be in color), but Billy Wilder convinced her to let it be shot in black and white when costume tests revealed that the makeup that Tony Curtis and 'Jack Lemmon' wore gave their faces a green tinge.

Marilyn Monroe required 47 takes to get "It's me, Sugar" correct, instead saying either "Sugar, it's me" or "It's Sugar, me". After take 30, Billy Wilder had the line written on a blackboard. Another scene required Monroe to rummage through some drawers and say "Where's the bourbon?" After 40 takes of her saying "Where's the whiskey?", 'Where's the bottle?", or "Where's the bonbon?", Wilder pasted the correct line in one of the drawers. After Monroe became confused about which drawer contained the line, Wilder had it pasted in every drawer. Fifty-nine takes were required for this scene and when she finally does say it, she has her back to the camera, leading some to wonder if Wilder finally gave up and had it dubbed.

While watching the rushes of the famous kissing scene on the yacht, Tony Curtis told those assembled that kissing Marilyn Monroe was "like kissing Hitler" (to which Monroe replied to Life magazine in 1962: "I think that's his problem.") He has subsequently denied that, and claimed that she deliberately teased him by grinding her body against his until he was aroused, and then stop (Monroe told Life that, since Curtis was so negative to her, she imagined she was with someone else instead of him.) He has also claimed the two had an affair during filming.

Billy Wilder referring to Marilyn Monroe while making the movie: "We were in mid-flight, and there was a nut on the plane." Indeed, Wilder publicly blasted Monroe for her behavior, and she was not invited to the wrap party.

The resort scenes were filmed entirely at the Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego, California. One reason why Billy Wilder chose this location was Marilyn Monroe's ongoing personal problems. He wanted a location where she could live on site and not have to be transported.

Named the funniest movie of all time by the American Film Institute

Voted #1 on the American Film Institute's list of 100 Funniest Movies.

Voted #14 on the AFI's List of 100 Greatest Movies.

The movie's line "Well, nobody's perfect." was voted as the #48 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100).

Marilyn Monroe was pregnant during the filming, as a result she looked considerably heavier. She had no known children and several miscarriages in her life. Due to her pregnancy, most of the publicity still photos were posed for by both Sandra Warner (who had an uncredited role as one of the band members) and Monroe's frequent stand-in Evelyn Moriarty with Monroe's head superimposed later.

Stories of the difficulty that cast and crew had with Marilyn Monroe during the making of this film have grown to almost mythical proportions. In the "farewell" telephone conversation between Monroe and Tony Curtis, her side-to-side eye movements clearly reveal that she was reading her lines directly from an off-screen blackboard. According to Curtis, Monroe was routinely 2 to 3 hours late to the set, and occasionally refused to leave her dressing room.

Supposedly when Orry-Kelly was measuring all three stars for dresses, he half-jokingly told Marilyn Monroe, "Tony Curtis has a nicer butt than you," at which point Monroe pulled open her blouse and said, "Yeah, but he doesn't have tits like these!"

According to George Raft, Marilyn Monroe suggested to Billy Wilder that he end the movie with Sugar and Spats boating off into the sunset. Wilder liked the idea, but decided on the ending with Osgood and Jerry.

Marilyn Monroe's vocal coach for this film was Judy Garland.