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{{short description|1959 comedy film directed by Billy Wilder}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Some Like It Hot
| image          = Some Like It Hot (1959 poster).png
| alt            =
| caption        = Theatrical release poster by [[Macario Gómez Quibus]]<ref name=elpc>{{cite news|title=Muere Mac, el mítico cartelista de 'Doctor Zhivago' y 'Psicosis' |trans-title=Mac, the legendary poster artist of 'Doctor Zhivago' and 'Psychosis', dies|language=es|url=https://www.elperiodico.com/es/ocio-y-cultura/20180721/muere-mac-macario-gomez-cartelista-doctor-zhivago-quo-vadis-6955323 |work=[[El Periódico de Catalunya]] |date=2018-07-21 |access-date=2018-08-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180727181224/https://www.elperiodico.com/es/ocio-y-cultura/20180721/muere-mac-macario-gomez-cartelista-doctor-zhivago-quo-vadis-6955323 |archive-date=2018-07-27 |url-status=live}}</ref>
| director       = [[Billy Wilder]]
| producer       = Billy Wilder
| screenplay     = {{ubl|Billy Wilder|[[I. A. L. Diamond]]}}
| story          = {{ubl|[[Robert Thoeren]]|Michael Logan}}
| based_on       = ''[[Fanfare of Love]]'' <br> by Max Bronnet <br> Michael Logan <br> [[Pierre Prévert]] <br> [[René Pujol]] <br> [[Robert Thoeren]]
| starring       = {{ubl|[[Marilyn Monroe]]|[[Tony Curtis]]|[[Jack Lemmon]]|[[George Raft]]|[[Pat O'Brien (actor)|Pat O'Brien]]|[[Joe E. Brown]]}}
| music          = [[Adolph Deutsch]]
| cinematography = [[Charles Lang]]
| editing        = [[Arthur P. Schmidt]]
| studio         = [[Mirisch Company]]
| distributor    = [[United Artists]]
| released       = {{Film date|1959|3|29|[[New York City]], premiere|1959|4|08|[[Los Angeles]]}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.graumanschinese.org/1959.html |title=1959 |website=graumanschinese.org |access-date=December 2, 2015}}</ref>
| runtime        = 121 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = $2.9 million<ref name ="npr" />
| gross          = $49 million<ref name ="npr" />
}}
'''''Some Like It Hot''''' is a 1959 American [[crime comedy]]<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.frenchfilms.org/review/some-like-it-hot-1959.html | title=Review of the film Some Like It Hot (1959) | year=2008 | access-date=October 7, 2022 | archive-date=October 7, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221007200449/http://www.frenchfilms.org/review/some-like-it-hot-1959.html | url-status=live }}</ref> film directed, produced and co-written by [[Billy Wilder]]. It stars [[Marilyn Monroe]], [[Tony Curtis]] and [[Jack Lemmon]], with [[George Raft]], [[Pat O'Brien (actor)|Pat O'Brien]], [[Joe E. Brown]], [[Joan Shawlee]] and [[Nehemiah Persoff]] in supporting roles. The screenplay by Wilder and [[I. A. L. Diamond]] is based on a screenplay by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan from the 1935 French film ''[[Fanfare of Love]]''. The film is about two musicians (Curtis and Lemmon) who disguise themselves as women to escape from [[American Mafia|Mafiosi]] whom they witnessed committing a crime.

''Some Like It Hot'' opened to critical and commercial success and is considered to be one of the [[List of films considered the best|greatest films of all time]]. The film received six [[Academy Award]] nominations, including [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]], [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]] and [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Adapted Screenplay]], winning for [[Academy Award for Best Costume Design|Best Costume Design]]. In 1989, the [[Library of Congress]] selected it as one of the first 25 films for preservation in the United States [[National Film Registry]] for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".<ref>{{cite news|date=September 19, 1989|title=Entertainment: Film Registry Picks First 25 Movies|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-09-19-mn-347-story.html|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|location=[[Washington, D.C.]]|access-date=April 22, 2020|archive-date=May 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200505082616/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-09-19-mn-347-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Complete National Film Registry Listing |url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/ |website=Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |access-date=2020-05-11 |archive-date=October 31, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161031213743/https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

The film was produced without approval from the [[Hays Code|Motion Picture Production Code]] (Hays Code) because it features [[cross-dressing]]. The code had been gradually weakening in its scope since the early 1950s, owing to greater social tolerance for taboo topics in film, but it was enforced until the mid-1960s. The overwhelming success of ''Some Like It Hot'' is considered one of the reasons behind the retirement of the code.<ref name="npr">{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93301189|title=Remembering Hollywood's Hays Code, 40 Years On|date=8 August 2008|work=NPR.org|access-date=14 March 2016|archive-date=June 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180611201505/https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93301189|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Plot==
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In [[Prohibition in the United States|Prohibition]]-era [[Chicago]], Joe is a jazz [[saxophone]] player and an irresponsible, impulsive [[Lothario|ladies' man]]; his anxious friend Jerry is a jazz [[double bass]] player. They work in a [[speakeasy]] owned by local Mafia boss "Spats" Colombo. Tipped off by informant "Toothpick" Charlie, the police raid the joint. Joe and Jerry escape, but later witness Spats and his henchmen gunning down Toothpick and his gang in revenge (an incident inspired by the [[Saint Valentine's Day Massacre]]).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Phillips |first1=Gene D. |title=Some Like It Wilder: The Life and Controversial Films of Billy Wilder |date=2010 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |page=212 |isbn=978-0813173672 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5uohNoRFkwIC&pg=PT258}}</ref> Spats and his gang see them as they flee. Broke, terrified, and desperate to leave Chicago, Joe and Jerry [[Drag (entertainment)|disguise themselves as women]] named Josephine and Daphne so they can join Sweet Sue and her Society Syncopators, an all-female band headed by train to [[Miami]]. On the train, Joe and Jerry befriend Sugar Kane, the band's vocalist and [[ukulele]] player.

Joe and Jerry become obsessed with Sugar and compete for her affection while maintaining their disguises. Sugar confides to "Josephine" that she has sworn off male saxophone players, who have taken advantage of her in the past. She hopes to find a gentle, bespectacled millionaire in [[Florida]]. "Josephine" and "Daphne" become close friends with Sugar during a late-night party on the train and struggle to remember that flirting with her would compromise their cover.
[[File:Some Like it Hot (1959) trailer.webm|thumb|The film's trailer]]
Once in Miami, Joe woos Sugar by affecting a [[Mid-Atlantic accent]] and posing as oil heir "[[Shell plc|Shell Oil]] Junior" while feigning indifference to her. An actual millionaire, the much-married, aging Osgood Fielding III, persistently pursues "Daphne", whose refusals only increase his appetite. He invites "her" to dinner on his yacht. Joe convinces Jerry to keep Osgood occupied onshore so that "Junior" can take Sugar to Osgood's yacht and pass it off as his own. On the yacht, "Junior" tells Sugar that [[Psychological pain|psychological trauma]] from the death of a former lover has left him impotent, but that he would marry anyone who could cure him. Sugar tries to arouse him, with considerable success. Meanwhile, "Daphne" and Osgood dance the [[tango]] ("[[La Cumparsita]]") until dawn. When Joe and Jerry get back to the hotel, Jerry announces that Osgood has proposed marriage to "Daphne" and that he has accepted, anticipating a divorce and cash settlement when his ruse is revealed. Joe convinces Jerry that he cannot marry Osgood.

The hotel hosts a conference for the "Friends of Italian Opera Society", a front for a national Mafia meeting presided over by "Little Bonaparte". Spats and his gang recognize Joe and Jerry as the witnesses they have been looking for. Fearing for their lives, Joe and Jerry realize they must quit the band and leave the hotel. Joe conceals his deception from Sugar by telling her over the telephone that "Junior" must marry a woman of his father's choosing and move to [[Venezuela]]. Sugar becomes distressed and heartbroken. Joe and Jerry evade Spats' men by hiding under a table at the syndicate banquet, where Little Bonaparte [[Roasting|roasts]] Spats and has him and his men killed. Joe and Jerry flee through the hotel after being spotted. Joe, dressed as Josephine, sees Sugar onstage singing a lament to lost love. He runs onto the platform and kisses her, causing her to realize that Josephine and Junior were the same person.

Jerry persuades Osgood to take "Daphne" and "Josephine" away on his yacht. Sugar runs from the stage at the end of her performance and jumps aboard Osgood's launch just as it is leaving the dock. Joe confesses the truth to Sugar and tells her that she deserves better, but Sugar wants him anyway, realizing he is the first man to genuinely care for her. Meanwhile, Jerry tries to get out of his engagement by listing reasons why "Daphne" and Osgood cannot marry, none of which bother Osgood. Exasperated, Jerry rips off his wig and says "I'm a man!" in his normal voice; still smiling, Osgood replies "Well, nobody's perfect," confounding Jerry and leaving him speechless.

==Cast==
[[File:Monroe and Curtis in Some Like it Hot.JPG|thumb|upright|Tony Curtis as "Shell Oil Junior" and Marilyn Monroe as Sugar]]
{{Cast listing|
* [[Marilyn Monroe]] as Sugar "Kane" Kowalczyk, a ukulele player and singer
* [[Tony Curtis]] as Joe/"Josephine"/"Shell Oil Junior", a saxophone player
* [[Jack Lemmon]] as Jerry/"Daphne", a bassist
* [[Joe E. Brown]] as Osgood Fielding III
* [[George Raft]] as "Spats" Colombo, a mobster from Chicago
* [[Pat O'Brien (actor)|Pat O'Brien]] as Agent Mulligan
* [[Nehemiah Persoff]] as "Little Bonaparte", a mobster and leader of the "Friends of Italian Opera Society"
* [[Joan Shawlee]] as Sweet Sue, the bandleader of "Sweet Sue and Her Society Syncopators"
* [[Dave Barry (actor)|Dave Barry]] as Mister Bienstock, the band manager for "Sweet Sue and Her Society Syncopators"
* [[Billy Gray (comedian)|Billy Gray]] as Sig Poliakoff, Joe and Jerry's agent in Chicago
* Barbara Drew as Nellie Weinmeyer, Poliakoff's secretary
* [[George E. Stone]] as "Toothpick" Charlie, a gangster who is killed by "Spats" Colombo
* [[Mike Mazurki]] as Spats's henchman
* [[Harry Wilson (actor)|Harry Wilson]] as Spats's henchman
* [[Edward G. Robinson Jr.]] as Johnny Paradise, a gangster who kills "Spats" Colombo
* [[Beverly Wills]] as Dolores, a trombone player, and Sugar's apartment friend
* Al Breneman as the bellboy (uncredited){{cn|date=October 2024}}
}}

==Soundtrack==
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The soundtrack features four songs performed by Marilyn Monroe, nine songs composed by [[Adolph Deutsch]], and two songs performed by jazz artist [[Matty Malneck]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/some-like-it-hot-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-mw0000652193|title=Some Like It Hot [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] – Original Soundtrack – Songs, Reviews, Credits – AllMusic|website=AllMusic|access-date=10 August 2018|archive-date=July 13, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130713054151/http://www.allmusic.com/album/some-like-it-hot-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-mw0000652193|url-status=live}}</ref>

{{Track listing
| title1 = [[Runnin' Wild (1922 song)|Runnin' Wild]]
| note1 = [[Marilyn Monroe]]
| length1 = 1:07
| title2 = Medley: Sugar Blues/Running Wild
| note2 = [[Adolph Deutsch]] & His Orchestra
| length2 = 1:32
| title3 = [[Down Among the Sheltering Palms]]
| note3 = Adolph Deutsch & His Orchestra
| length3 = 1:59
| title4 = Randolph Street Rag
| note4 = Adolph Deutsch
| length4 = 1:28
| title5 = [[I Wanna Be Loved by You]]
| note5 = Marilyn Monroe
| length5 = 2:58
| title6 = Park Avenue Fantasy
| note6 = Adolph Deutsch & His Orchestra
| length6 = 3:34
| title7 = Medley: Down Among the Sheltering Palms / La Cumparsita / I Wanna Be Loved By You
| note7 = Adolph Deutsch & His Orchestra
| length7 = 2:20
| title8 = I'm Thru With Love
| note8 = Marilyn Monroe
| length8 = 2:34
| title9 = Medley: Sugar Blues / Tell the Whole Damn World
| note9 = Adolph Deutsch & His Orchestra
| length9 = 3:25
| title10 = Play It Again Charlie
| note10 = Adolph Deutsch
| length10 = 1:49
| title11 = Sweet Georgia Brown
| note11 = [[Matty Malneck]] & His Orchestra
| length11 = 2:57
| title12 = By the Beautiful Sea
| note12 = Adolph Deutsch & His Orchestra
| length12 = 1:22
| title13 = Park Avenue Fantasy (Reprise)
| note13 = Adolph Deutsch & His Orchestra
| length13 = 2:10
| title14 = Some Like It Hot
| note14 = Matty Malneck & His Orchestra
| length14 = 1:46
| title15 = Some Like It Hot (Single Version)
| note15 = Marilyn Monroe
| length15 = 1:21
| total_length = 32:22
}}

== Production ==
===Pre-production===
[[Billy Wilder]] wrote the script for the film with writer [[I. A. L. Diamond]].<ref name="Rolston, Lorraine">Rolston, Lorraine, Some like it Hot (York Film Notes). Longman; 1 edition, 2000 pp. 7–57</ref> The plot was based on a screenplay by [[Robert Thoeren]] and Michael Logan for the 1935 French film ''[[Fanfare of Love]]''.<ref name="Curtis, T 2009 p.13">Curtis, T. and Vieira, M. (2009). ''Some Like It Hot''. London: Virgin Books, p.13</ref> The original script for ''Fanfare of Love'' was untraceable, so Walter Mirisch found a copy of the 1951 German remake, ''[[Fanfares of Love]]''. He bought the rights to that script, and Wilder worked with this to produce a new story.<ref name="Curtis, T 2009 p.13"/> Both films follow the story of two musicians in search of work,<ref name="Rolston, Lorraine"/> but Wilder created the gangster subplot.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/16637/Some-Like-It-Hot/articles.html |title=Some Like It Hot (1959) |publisher=Turner Classic Movies, Inc. |access-date=March 11, 2017 |archive-date=February 15, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170215154322/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/16637/Some-Like-It-Hot/articles.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

The studio hired female impersonator [[Barbette (performer)|Barbette]] to coach Lemmon and Curtis.<ref name="Curtis, T 2009 p.13"/> Monroe worked for 10 percent of the gross in excess of $4 million, Curtis for 5 percent of the gross over $2 million, and Wilder for 17.5 percent of the first million after break-even and 20 percent thereafter.<ref name="tino">{{cite book| last=Balio| first=Tino| title=United Artists: The Company That Changed the Film Industry| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9EeK5s3aw44C&q=Wilder| publisher=University of Wisconsin Press| year= 2009| page=170| isbn=978-0299230135}}</ref>

===Casting===
Tony Curtis was spotted by Billy Wilder while he was making the film ''[[Houdini (1953 film)|Houdini]]'' (1953),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045886/ |title=Houdini (1953) |author=rich-826 |date=2 July 1953 |publisher=IMDb |access-date=14 March 2016 |archive-date=September 20, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170920051316/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045886/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and he thought Curtis would be perfect for the role of Joe. "I was sure Tony was right for it", said Wilder, "because he was quite handsome, and when he tells Marilyn that he is one of the [[Shell plc|Shell Oil]] family, she has to be able to believe it".<ref>Golenbock, Peter, ''American Prince: A Memoir'', 2008, Publishing Group</ref> Wilder's first idea for the role of Jerry was [[Frank Sinatra]], but he did not come to the audition.<ref>Alison Castle (Hrsg.): ''Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot''. [[Taschen]], 2001, p. 24.</ref> [[Jerry Lewis]] and [[Danny Kaye]] were also considered for the role of Jerry. Finally, Wilder saw Lemmon in the comedy ''[[Operation Mad Ball]]''<ref>Alison Castle (Hrsg.): ''Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot''. Taschen, 2001, S. 238.</ref> and selected him for the part. Wilder and Lemmon would go on to make numerous films together, including ''[[The Apartment]]'' and several films which also included [[Walter Matthau]].

According to York Film Notes, Wilder and Diamond did not expect a star as big as [[Marilyn Monroe]] to take the part of Sugar.<ref name="Rolston, Lorraine"/> "[[Mitzi Gaynor]] was who we had in mind", Wilder said. "The word came that Marilyn wanted the part and then we {{em|had}} to have Marilyn."<ref>{{cite book |last=Crowe |first=Cameron |title=Conversations with Wilder |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eYRZAAAAMAAJ&q=monroe+some+like+hot |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |edition= Reprint |year=1999 |page=161 |isbn=9780375406607 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> Wilder and Monroe had made the film ''[[The Seven Year Itch]]'' together in 1955.

It was [[George Raft]]'s first "A" picture in a number of years.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Filmink|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/stars-stop-stars-george-raft/|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|title=Why Stars Stop Being Stars: George Raft|date=February 9, 2020}}</ref>

===Filming===
[[File:Hotel Del Coronado Drone Picture Turf Lawn.jpg|thumb|[[Hotel del Coronado]] (2016)]]
[[File:Photo Director Billy Wilder and actress Marilyn Monroe during the filming of the 1959 movie Some Like It Hot 1959 - Touring Club Italiano 04 0906.jpg|thumb|Billy Wilder's directions to Marilyn Monroe during the filming of the scene which was filmed 47 times]]
The film was made in [[California]] during the summer and autumn of 1958.<ref>Castle, Alison (Hrsg.): ''Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot''. Taschen, 2001, p. 24.</ref> [[American Film Institute|AFI]] reported the production dates between early August and November 12, 1958, at [[Samuel Goldwyn Studios]].<ref name="AFI"/> Many scenes were shot at [[Hotel del Coronado]] in [[Coronado, California|Coronado]], California, which appeared as the "Seminole Ritz Hotel" in Miami in the film, as it fit into the era of the 1920s and was near Hollywood. The Mirisch Company was the film's presenter, and producer [[Walter Mirisch]] employed several crew members from his home base, the [[Monogram Pictures Corporation|Allied Artists]] studio.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}

During filming, Monroe lacked concentration and suffered from an addiction to pills. She was constantly late to set, and could not memorize many of her lines, averaging 35–40 takes for a single line according to Tony Curtis.<ref>{{cite video| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXNmXVBk1Ho| title=Tony Curtis Talks About Marilyn Monroe| author=Parkinson| publisher=YouTube.com| date=2016-10-01| access-date=2019-08-28}}</ref> The line "It's me, Sugar" took 47 takes to get correct because Monroe kept getting the word order wrong, saying either "Sugar, it's me" or "It's Sugar, me". Curtis and Lemmon made bets during the filming on how many takes she would need to get it right.<ref>Jack Lemmon in: ''Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot''. Taschen, 2001, {{ISBN|3-8228-6056-5}}. p. 277</ref> Three days were scheduled for shooting the scene with Shell Jr. and Sugar at the beach, as Monroe had many complicated lines, but the scene was finished in only 20 minutes.<ref>[[Volker Schlöndorff|Schlöndorff, Volker]]: Billy Wilder in ''Billy Wilder speaks''. ''Some Like It Hot''. DVD, October 2006.</ref> Monroe's acting coach [[Paula Strasberg]] and Monroe's husband [[Arthur Miller]] both tried to influence the production, which Wilder and other crew members found annoying.<ref>Walter Mirisch in: ''Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot''. Taschen, 2001, {{ISBN|3-8228-6056-5}}</ref><ref>Tony Curtis in: ''Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot'', Taschen 2001 (2010), S. 286</ref>

Wilder spoke in 1959 about making another film with Monroe: "I have discussed this with my doctor and my psychiatrist and they tell me I'm too old and too rich to go through this again."<ref>{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5WVDRyRvy_4C&q=The+Making+of+Some+Like+It+Hot:+My+Memories+of+Marilyn+Monroe+and+the+Classic+American+Movie| title=The Making of Some Like It Hot:My Memories of Marilyn Monroe and the Classic American Movie| last=Curtis| first=Tony| date=September 17, 2009|publisher=Wiley| isbn=978-0470561195| access-date=24 February 2019|url-access=subscription }}</ref> But Wilder also admitted: "My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?"<ref>{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2rL9yP-6UwYC&q=Aunt+Minnie| title=Great Funny Quotes: Sweeten Your Life with Laughter| last=Young| first=David| publisher=Wind Runner Press| location=Round Rock, Texas| year= 2011| access-date=24 February 2019| page=194| isbn=978-1936179015}}</ref> He also stated that Monroe played her part wonderfully.<ref>Alison Castle (Hrsg.): ''Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot''. Taschen, 2001, S. 287.</ref> Years later, Wilder noted "I think there are more books on Marilyn Monroe than there are on World War 2, and there's a great similarity."<ref>Basinger, Jeanine & Wasson, Sam, ''Hollywood: The Oral History'', Harper, 2022, p. 393</ref>

The film's closing line, "Well, nobody's perfect", is ranked 78th on ''The Hollywood Reporter'' list of Hollywood's 100 Favorite Movie Lines, but it was never supposed to be in the final cut.  Diamond and Wilder put it in the script as a "placeholder" until they could come up with something better, but they never did.<ref>{{cite news| title=Hollywood's 100 Favorite Movie Quotes| url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/best-movie-quotes-hollywoods-top-867142| newspaper=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]| date=24 February 2016| access-date=24 February 2019| archive-date=February 25, 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190225161913/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/best-movie-quotes-hollywoods-top-867142| url-status=live}}</ref> Wilder's tombstone pays homage to the line by reading, "I'm a writer, but then, nobody's perfect". In 2000, ''[[The Guardian]]'' ranked the closing scene at No. 10 on their list of "The top 100 film moments".<ref name="Grdn2000">{{cite news |title=The top 10 film moments: The top 10 film moments as voted for by Observer readers |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/feb/06/top-10-film-moments-usual-suspects-psycho |access-date=7 March 2023 |work=The Guardian |date=6 February 2000 |archive-date=June 16, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180616013515/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/feb/06/top-10-film-moments-usual-suspects-psycho |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Style===
With regard to sound design, there is a "strong musical element"<ref name="Rolston, Lorraine"/> in the film, with the soundtrack created by [[Adolph Deutsch]]. It has an authentic 1920s jazz feel using sharp, brassy strings to create tension in certain moments, for example whenever Spats's gangsters appear. In terms of cinematography and aesthetics, Wilder chose to shoot the film in black and white as Lemmon and Curtis in full drag costume and make-up looked "unacceptably grotesque" in early color tests.<ref name="Rolston, Lorraine"/> Despite Monroe's contract requiring the film to be in color, she agreed to it being filmed in black and white after seeing that Curtis and Lemmon's makeup gave them a "ghoulish" appearance on color film.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/71636%7C0/Some-Like-It-Hot.html |title=Behind the Camera on Some Like It Hot |first=Rob |last=Nixon |access-date=23 Jan 2018 |archive-date=January 25, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180125020049/http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/71636%7C0/Some-Like-It-Hot.html |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Orry-Kelly]] created the costumes for Monroe<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1314751|title=Some Like it Hot {{!}} Orry-Kelly {{!}} V&A Search the Collections|date=2019-08-07|website=V and A Collections|language=en|access-date=2019-08-07|archive-date=June 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210619004951/https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1314751|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://2015.acmi.net.au/acmi-channel/2016/orry-kelly-on-costume-celebrity-and-stars/|title=Orry-Kelly on costume, celebrity and stars {{!}} ACMI|website=2015.acmi.net.au|language=en|access-date=2019-08-07|archive-date=April 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401124535/https://2015.acmi.net.au/acmi-channel/2016/orry-kelly-on-costume-celebrity-and-stars/|url-status=live}}</ref> as well as Lemmon and Curtis,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://2015.acmi.net.au/film/past-film-programs/2015/some-like-it-hot/|title=Some Like it Hot {{!}} ACMI|website=2015.acmi.net.au|language=en|access-date=2019-08-07|archive-date=May 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180515233045/https://2015.acmi.net.au/film/past-film-programs/2015/some-like-it-hot/|url-status=live}}</ref> after the stock costumes the studio provided for the male leads fit poorly.

==Reception==
===Box office===
[[File:Big Sky Drive-in Ad - 2 July 1959, Chula Vista, CA.jpg|thumb|July 2, 1959, newspaper advertisement for a drive-in theater viewing of the film]]
By 1962, ''Some Like It Hot'' had grossed $14 million in the US.<ref>[[Axel Madsen|Madsen, Axel]]. ''Billy Wilder''. [[Secker & Warburg]]. 1968.</ref> According to [[The Numbers (website)|The Numbers]], the film ultimately grossed $25 million in the US.<ref>[https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Some-Like-it-Hot#tab=summary "Some Like it Hot (1959) – Financial Information"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009190003/https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Some-Like-it-Hot#tab=summary |date=October 9, 2020 }}. [[The Numbers (website)|The Numbers]]. Retrieved 7 October 2020.</ref> As of 2020, it had grossed over $83.2 million internationally.<ref>[https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0053291/ "Some Like It Hot"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201011163203/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0053291/ |date=October 11, 2020 }}. [[Box Office Mojo]]. Retrieved 7 October 2020.</ref>

The film opened in the week ended March 24, 1959, in several cities in the United States; the highest grossing of which were in Chicago, where it grossed $45,000 at the [[United Artists Theatre (Chicago)|United Artists Theatre]] with Monroe making an appearance, and in Washington, D.C., where it grossed $40,000 at the Capitol Theatre.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.archive.org/stream/variety214-1959-03#page/n256/mode/1up|title=Socko Pix Fatten Chi B.O.|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=March 25, 1959|page=9|access-date=June 16, 2019|via=[[Archive.org]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.archive.org/stream/variety214-1959-03#page/n256/mode/1up|title=Monroe Mighty $40,000 D.C. Ace|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=March 25, 1959|page=9|access-date=June 16, 2019|via=[[Archive.org]]}}</ref> With results from just six key cities, ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' listed it as the third highest-grossing film in the United States for the week.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.archive.org/stream/variety214-1959-03#page/n251/mode/1up|title=National Boxoffice Survey|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=March 25, 1959|page=4|access-date=June 16, 2019|via=[[Archive.org]]}}</ref>

The film then expanded to 100 theatres around the country for the [[Easter]] holiday,<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.archive.org/stream/variety214-1959-03#page/n82/mode/1up|title='Hot' Hits 100 at Easter|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=March 11, 1959|page=19|access-date=June 23, 2019|via=[[Archive.org]]}}</ref> including at the newly renovated [[Loew's State Theatre (New York City)|State Theatre]] in New York City on Sunday, March 29, 1959,<ref name="AFI">{{AFI film|id=53017|title=Some Like It Hot}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.archive.org/stream/variety214-1959-04#page/n8/mode/1up|title=Easter Time – And Biz is Risen|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=April 1, 1959|page=9|access-date=June 16, 2019|via=[[Archive.org]]}}</ref> and became number one in the country and remained there for three weeks before being knocked off the top by ''[[Imitation of Life (1959 film)|Imitation of Life]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.archive.org/stream/variety214-1959-04#page/n316/mode/1up|title=National Box Office Survey|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=April 22, 1959|page=5|access-date=June 16, 2019|via=[[Archive.org]]}}</ref> ''Imitation of Life'' was top for two weeks before being replaced again by ''Some Like It Hot'',<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.archive.org/stream/variety214-1959-05#page/n2/mode/1up|title=National Boxoffice Survey|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=May 5, 1959|page=3|access-date=June 16, 2019|via=[[Archive.org]]}}</ref> which remained there for another four weeks before being replaced by ''[[Pork Chop Hill (film)|Pork Chop Hill]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.archive.org/stream/variety215-1959-06#page/n3/mode/1up|title=National Boxoffice Survey|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=June 3, 1959|page=4|access-date=June 16, 2019|via=[[Archive.org]]}}</ref> In its first month, the film grossed $2,585,120 from 96 engagements.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/stream/variety214-1959-05#page/n17/mode/1up|title='Hot' Big on 96 Dates|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=May 6, 1959|page=18|access-date=January 8, 2021|via=[[Archive.org]]}}</ref>

===Retrospective appraisal===
''Some Like It Hot'' received widespread acclaim from critics and is considered among [[List of films considered the best|the best films of all time]]. On review aggregator [[Rotten Tomatoes]], 95% of 73 critics have given the film a positive review, with an average rating of 9.1/10. The website's critical consensus calls it "a spry, quick-witted [[farce]] that never drags."<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/some_like_it_hot| title=Some Like It Hot (1959)| website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]| access-date=31 May 2023| archive-date=February 20, 2015| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150220015416/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/some_like_it_hot| url-status=live}}</ref> According to [[Metacritic]], another review aggregator which calculated a weighted average score of 98 out of 100 based on 19 critics, the film received "universal acclaim".<ref name="metacritic">{{cite web| url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/some-like-it-hot| title=Some Like It Hot| website=[[Metacritic]]| access-date=12 February 2019| archive-date=July 11, 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180711030747/http://www.metacritic.com/movie/some-like-it-hot| url-status=live}}</ref> The ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]''{{'}}s [[Roger Ebert]] wrote: "Wilder's 1959 comedy is one of the enduring treasures of the movies, a film of inspiration and meticulous craft."<ref name="rogerebert.com">{{cite web| url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-some-like-it-hot-1959| title=Some Like It Hot| first=Roger| last=Ebert| date=9 January 2000| newspaper=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]| access-date=14 March 2016| archive-date=April 28, 2013| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130428042547/http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-some-like-it-hot-1959| url-status=live}}</ref> Ebert gave the film four stars out of four and included it in his [[Great Movies]] list.<ref name="rogerebert.com" /> [[John McCarten]] of ''[[The New Yorker]]'' referred to the film as "a jolly, carefree enterprise".<ref>{{cite news |last=Mccarten |first=John |date=4 April 1959 |title=The Current Cinema |url=https://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1959-04-04#folio=CV1 |newspaper=The New Yorker |url-access=subscription |access-date=February 25, 2019 |archive-date=February 25, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190225103134/https://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1959-04-04#folio=CV1 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Richard Roud]], writing for ''The Guardian'' in 1967, called it "close to perfection".<ref>{{cite news |last=Roud |first=Richard |date=1967 |title= Review |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London }}</ref>

In 1989, the film became one of the first 25 inducted into the United States [[National Film Registry]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Molotsky|first1=Irvin|date=September 20, 1989|title=25 Films Chosen for the National Registry|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/20/movies/25-films-chosen-for-the-national-registry.html|access-date=20 January 2018|archive-date=March 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303222420/http://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/20/movies/25-films-chosen-for-the-national-registry.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1998, the film was ranked at No. 7 in ''[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]]''{{'}}s poll of "Top 100 Films".<ref>{{cite web |work=[[AMC (TV channel)|AMC Filmsite.org]] |url=http://www.filmsite.org/timeout2.html |title=Top 100 Films (Readers) |publisher=American Movie Classics Company |access-date=August 17, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718213202/http://www.filmsite.org/timeout2.html |archive-date=July 18, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> In 1999, ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' voted it at No. 9 on their list of "100 Greatest Movies of All Time".<ref>{{cite web|title = Entertainment Weekly's 100 Greatest Movies of All Time|url = http://www.filmsite.org/ew100.html|publisher = [[Filmsite.org]]|access-date = 19 January 2009|url-status = live|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140331185517/http://www.filmsite.org/ew100.html|archive-date = 31 March 2014|df = dmy-all}}</ref>

''Some Like It Hot'' was voted as the top American comedy film by the [[American Film Institute]] on their list on [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs]] poll in 2000, and was selected as the best comedy of all time in a poll of 253 film critics from 52 countries conducted by the [[BBC]] in 2017.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170821-the-100-greatest-comedies-of-all-time|title=The 100 greatest comedies of all time|date=2017-08-22|website=BBC Culture|access-date=2017-09-08|archive-date=January 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180111175543/http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170821-the-100-greatest-comedies-of-all-time|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2005, the [[British Film Institute]] included this film on its list of "Top fifty films for children up to the age of 14".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/education/conferences/watchthis/top50.html|title=BFI {{!}} Education {{!}} Conferences {{!}} Watch This! top 50 list|website=British Film Institute|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120525190334/http://www.bfi.org.uk/education/conferences/watchthis/top50.html|archive-date=25 May 2012|access-date=11 February 2020|url-status=dead}}</ref> The [[The Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2022|2022 ''Sight & Sound'' critics' poll]] ranked it as the 38th greatest film of all time, tied with ''[[Rear Window]]'' and [[Breathless (1960 film)|''a bout de souffle'']].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Greatest Films of All Time |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/greatest-films-all-time |access-date=2023-09-01 |website=BFI |language=en}}</ref> The 2022 [[The Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2022|Sight & Sound directors' poll]] ranked it 62nd, tied with nine other films.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Directors' 100 Greatest Films of All Time |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/directors-100-greatest-films-all-time |access-date=2023-09-01 |website=BFI |language=en}}</ref> In the earlier [[The Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2012|2012]] ''[[Sight & Sound]]'' polls, it was ranked the 42nd-greatest film ever made in the critics' poll<ref name="bfi">{{cite journal |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/news/50-greatest-films-all-time |title=The Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time |issue=September 2012 |date=1 August 2012 |journal=[[Sight & Sound]] |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] |access-date=6 June 2013 |editor-link=Ian Christie (film scholar) |editor-first=Ian |editor-last=Christie |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301135739/http://www.bfi.org.uk/news/50-greatest-films-all-time |archive-date=1 March 2017}}</ref> and 37th in the directors' poll.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/sightandsoundpoll2012/directors|title=Directors' Top 100|year=2012|journal=[[Sight & Sound]]|publisher=[[British Film Institute]]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160209010504/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/sightandsoundpoll2012/directors|archive-date=9 February 2016}}</ref> The 2002 ''Sight & Sound'' polls the film ranked 37th among critics<ref>{{cite web|title=Sight & Sound Top Ten Poll 2002: The rest of the critics' list |work=Sight & Sound |publisher=British Film Institute |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/poll/critics-long.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120515211647/http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/poll/critics-long.html |archive-date=15 May 2012 |access-date=24 April 2009}}</ref> and 24th among directors.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sight & Sound Top Ten Poll 2002 The Rest of Director's List|url=http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/polls/topten/poll/directors-long.html|website=old.bfi.org.uk|access-date=2021-05-31|archive-date=2017-02-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170201155933/http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/polls/topten/poll/directors-long.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2010, ''[[The Guardian]]'' considered it the third-best comedy film of all time.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/oct/18/some-like-hot-comedy |title=Some Like It Hot: No 3 best comedy film of all time |first=John |last=Patterson |date=18 October 2010 |access-date=25 December 2018 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |archive-date=June 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602214538/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/oct/18/some-like-hot-comedy |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2015, the film ranked 30th on [[BBC]]'s "100 Greatest American Films" list, voted on by film critics from around the world.<ref>{{cite web|date=July 20, 2015|title=100 Greatest American Films|url=http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150720-the-100-greatest-american-films|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916105535/http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150720-the-100-greatest-american-films|archive-date=September 16, 2016|access-date=July 21, 2015|work=BBC}}</ref> It was included in ''[[The New York Times]]''{{'}}s "The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made" list in 2002.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/ref/movies/1000best.html |title=The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made |newspaper=The New York Times |year=2002| access-date=7 December 2013 | archive-date=11 December 2013 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131211043539/http://www.nytimes.com/ref/movies/1000best.html}}</ref> In 2005, it was included on ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''{{'}}s [[Time magazine's "All-TIME" 100 best movies|All-Time 100 best movies]] list.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=''Some Like It Hot''|url=https://entertainment.time.com/2005/02/12/all-time-100-movies/slide/some-like-it-hot-1959/|magazine=Time|date=15 January 2010 |last1=Corliss |first1=Richard }}</ref> The film was voted at No. 52 on the list of "100 Greatest Films" by the French film magazine ''[[Cahiers du Cinéma]]'' in 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmdetail.com/2008/11/23/cahiers-du-cinemas-100-greatest-films/|title=Cahiers du cinéma's 100 Greatest Films|date=23 November 2008|access-date=May 27, 2021|archive-date=July 16, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180716224153/http://www.filmdetail.com/2008/11/23/cahiers-du-cinemas-100-greatest-films/|url-status=live}}</ref> In July 2018, it was screened in the Venice Classics section at the [[75th Venice International Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.labiennale.org/en/news/restored-films-venezia-classici |title=The Restored Vilms of Venezia Classici |website=La Biennale Di Venezia |date=13 July 2018 |access-date=24 February 2019 |archive-date=July 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180723003653/http://www.labiennale.org/en/news/restored-films-venezia-classici |url-status=live }}</ref>

According to film historian [[Foster Hirsch]], during a screening of the film at [[Grauman’s Chinese Theatre]] in March 1959, “Joe E. Brown’s nonchalant delivery of the final line elicited the loudest, deepest, heartiest laughter I have ever heard in a theater...recognizing a perfectly timed one-liner for the ages, a thousand spectators roared in unified delight.”<ref>Hirsch, 2023 p. 550: Brown’s response in discovering that Daphne is male: “Well, nobody’s perfect."</ref>

===Awards and nominations===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|-
! Award
! Category
! Nominee(s)
! Result
! Ref.
|-
| rowspan="6"| [[32nd Academy Awards|Academy Awards]]
| [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| [[Billy Wilder]]
| {{nom}}
| align="center" rowspan="6"| <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1960 |title=The 32nd Academy Awards (1960) Nominees and Winners |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=August 21, 2011 |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706094204/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/32nd-winners.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| [[Jack Lemmon]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Screenplay – Based on Material from Another Medium]]
| Billy Wilder and [[I. A. L. Diamond]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Production Design|Best Art Direction – Black-and-White]]
| Art Direction: [[Ted Haworth]]; <br> Set Decoration: [[Edward G. Boyle]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography – Black-and-White]]
| [[Charles Lang]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Costume Design|Best Costume Design – Black-and-White]]
| [[Orry-Kelly]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Bambi Award]]s
| Best Actor – International
| [[Tony Curtis]]
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bambi-awards.com/the-bambi-award-goes-to |title=The BAMBI award goes to…: A selection of international BAMBI award winners since 1948 |website=Bambi Awards |access-date=November 23, 2014 |archive-date=July 1, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150701051148/http://www.bambi-awards.com/the-bambi-award-goes-to |url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[13th British Academy Film Awards|British Academy Film Awards]]
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Film|Best Film from any Source]]
| Billy Wilder
| {{nom}}
| align="center" rowspan="2"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1960/film |title=BAFTA Awards: Film in 1960 |publisher=[[British Academy Film Awards]] |access-date=September 16, 2016 |archive-date=August 8, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808051039/http://awards.bafta.org/award/1960/film |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role|Best Foreign Actor]]
| Jack Lemmon
| {{won}}
|-
| [[12th Directors Guild of America Awards|Directors Guild of America Awards]]
| [[Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film|Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures]]
| rowspan="2"| Billy Wilder
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dga.org/Awards/History/1950s/1959.aspx?value=1959 |title=12th DGA Awards |publisher=[[Directors Guild of America Awards]] |access-date=July 5, 2021 |archive-date=November 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211122083356/http://www.dga.org/Awards/History/1950s/1959.aspx?value=1959 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="3"| [[17th Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globe Awards]]
| colspan="2"| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy|Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy]]
| {{won}}
| align="center" rowspan="3"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/film/some-it-hot |title=Some Like It Hot |publisher=[[Golden Globe Awards]] |access-date=July 5, 2021 |archive-date=August 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210805173207/https://www.goldenglobes.com/film/some-it-hot |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy|Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy]]
| Jack Lemmon
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy|Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy]]
| Marilyn Monroe
| {{won}}
|-
| [[1st Annual Grammy Awards|Grammy Awards]]
| [[Grammy Award for Best Sound Track Album or Recording of Original Cast From a Motion Picture or Television|Best Sound Track Album, Original Cast – Motion Picture or Television]]
| ''[[Some Like It Hot (Barney Kessel album)|Some Like It Hot]]''
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/awards/2nd-annual-grammy-awards |title=2nd Annual GRAMMY Awards |publisher=[[Grammy Awards]] |access-date=May 1, 2011 |archive-date=March 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190321041243/https://www.grammy.com/grammys/awards/2nd-annual-grammy-awards |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| [[Jules Verne Award]]s
| Jules Verne Légendaire Award
| Billy Wilder
| {{won}}
| align="center"|
|-
| rowspan="3"| [[Laurel Awards]]
| colspan="2"| Top Comedy
| {{draw|3rd Place}}
| align="center" rowspan="3"| 
|-
| Top Male Comedy Performance
| Jack Lemmon
| {{draw|2nd Place}}
|-
| Top Female Comedy Performance
| Marilyn Monroe
| {{draw|2nd Place}}
|-
| [[National Board of Review Awards 1959|National Board of Review Awards]]
| colspan="2"| [[National Board of Review: Top Ten Films|Top Ten Films]]
| {{draw|7th Place}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://nationalboardofreview.org/award-years/1959/ |title=1959 Award Winners |website=[[National Board of Review]] |access-date=July 5, 2021 |archive-date=October 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211006001147/https://nationalboardofreview.org/award-years/1959/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| [[National Film Preservation Board]]
| colspan="2"| [[National Film Registry]]
| {{won|Inducted}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.theweek.com/article/index/238023/the-25-films-added-to-the-national-film-registry-in-2012 |title = The 25 Films Added to the National Film Registry in 2012 |first1 = Scott |last1 = Meslow |website = [[The Week]] |date = December 19, 2012 |access-date = January 4, 2012 |archive-date = December 19, 2012 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121219210742/http://theweek.com/article/index/238023/the-25-films-added-to-the-national-film-registry-in-2012 |url-status = live }}</ref>
|-
| Online Film & Television Association Awards
| colspan="2"| Hall of Fame – Motion Picture
| {{won|Inducted}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oftaawards.com/film-hall-of-fame/film-hall-of-fame-productions/ |title=Film Hall of Fame Inductees: Productions |website=Online Film & Television Association |access-date=August 15, 2021 |archive-date=September 11, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911025446/http://www.oftaawards.com/film-hall-of-fame/film-hall-of-fame-productions/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| [[11th Golden Laurel Awards|Producers Guild of America Awards]]
| PGA Hall of Fame – Motion Pictures
| Robert Evans
| {{won}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| [[20th Venice International Film Festival|Venice International Film Festival]]
| [[Golden Lion]]
| Billy Wilder
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| [[12th Writers Guild of America Awards|Writers Guild of America Awards]]
| [[Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Comedy|Best Written American Comedy]]
| Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1551|title=Awards Winners|date=|work=wga.org|publisher=Writers Guild of America|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121205095022/http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1551|archive-date=2012-12-05|access-date=2010-06-06}}</ref>
|}

The film is recognized by [[American Film Institute]] in these lists:
* 1998: [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies]] – No. 14<ref>{{cite web |title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies |url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/movies100.pdf |website=American Film Institute |year=2005 |access-date=August 27, 2016 |archive-date=April 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412113202/http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/movies100.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
* 2000: [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs]] – No. 1<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.afi.com/100Years/laughs.aspx |title=AFI's 100 Funniest American Movies Of All Time |date=June 13, 2000 |website=American Film Institute |access-date=14 March 2016 |archive-date=November 16, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151116134020/http://www.afi.com/100Years/laughs.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs |url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/laughs100.pdf |website=American Film Institute |year=2003 |access-date=August 27, 2016 |archive-date=June 24, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624052741/http://afi.com/Docs/100Years/laughs100.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
* 2005: [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes]]:
** Osgood Fielding III: "Well, nobody's perfect." – No. 48<ref>{{cite web |title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes |url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/quotes100.pdf |website=American Film Institute |year=2005 |access-date=August 27, 2016 |archive-date=March 13, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110313150615/http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/quotes100.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
* 2007: [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)]] – No. 22<ref>{{cite web |title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) |url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/100Movies.pdf |website=American Film Institute |year=2007 |access-date=August 27, 2016 |archive-date=June 6, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130606072909/http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/100Movies.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

The film was inducted in 1989 into the [[National Film Registry]] by the [[Library of Congress]].<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Molotsky|first1=Irvin|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/20/movies/25-films-chosen-for-the-national-registry.html|title=25 Films Chosen for the National Registry|date=1989-09-20|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-02-27|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=March 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303222420/http://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/20/movies/25-films-chosen-for-the-national-registry.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The [[Writers Guild of America]] ranked the film's screenplay the ninth greatest ever written.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wga.org/writers-room/101-best-lists/101-greatest-screenplays/list|title=101 Greatest Screenplays|publisher=Writers Guild of America|access-date=March 8, 2017|archive-date=November 22, 2016|archive-url=https://archive.today/20161122211118/http://www.wga.org/writers-room/101-best-lists/101-greatest-screenplays/list|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Adaptations==
An unsold television pilot was filmed by [[Mirisch Productions]] in 1961 featuring [[Vic Damone]] and [[Tina Louise]]. As a favor to the production company, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis agreed to film cameo appearances, returning as their original characters, Daphne and Josephine, at the beginning of the pilot. Their appearance sees them in a hospital where Jerry (Lemmon) is being treated for his impacted back tooth and Joe (Curtis) is the same O blood type.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/805149 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081003142900/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/805149 |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 October 2008 |title=Some Like It Hot [Tv Pilot] (1961) |website=BFI |access-date=14 March 2016}}</ref>

In 1975 a [[Bollywood]] remake was released as ''[[Rafoo Chakkar]]''.

A 1984 stage production at the [[Claridge Hotel & Casino]] in [[Atlantic City, New Jersey]], starred [[Joe Namath]] as Joe.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/10/nyregion/sugar-by-the-sea-how-sweet-it-is.html |title='Sugar' By The Sea: How Sweet It Is |journal=[[The New York Times]] |date=10 June 1984 |access-date=June 24, 2020 |archive-date=June 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200627154032/https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/10/nyregion/sugar-by-the-sea-how-sweet-it-is.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

A 1991 stage production of this show in [[London]] featured [[Tommy Steele]] and retained the film's title.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thisistheatre.com/shows/princeedward46.html |title=Some Like It Hot |website=thisistheatre.com |date=29 January 2018 |access-date=February 14, 2019 |archive-date=February 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212002628/http://www.thisistheatre.com/shows/princeedward46.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Tony Curtis, then in his late 70s, performed in a 2002 stage production of the film, this time cast as Osgood Fielding III, the character originally played by Joe E. Brown.<ref>{{cite web |year=2003 |url=http://owendaly.com/jeff/SLIH/SLIHPress.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030703003909/http://owendaly.com/jeff/SLIH/press/index.html |archive-date=July 3, 2003 |title=Tour information |website=owendaly.com |access-date=February 24, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Perry |first=Claudia |url=http://www.aislesay.com/PA-SOME.html |title=Some Like It Hot |journal=Aisle Say Philadelphia |date=April 2002 |access-date=February 14, 2019 |archive-date=May 30, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160530041705/http://www.aislesay.com/PA-SOME.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Broadway ===
The 1972 musical [[Sugar (musical)|''Sugar'']], based on the film screenplay, opened on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] starring [[Elaine Joyce]], [[Robert Morse]], [[Tony Roberts (actor)|Tony Roberts]], and [[Cyril Ritchard]], with book by [[Peter Stone (writer)|Peter Stone]], lyrics by [[Bob Merrill]], and (all-new) music by [[Jule Styne]].<ref>{{cite magazine |date=April 24, 1972 |title=Sugar: The Girls in the Band |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,943397,00.html?promoid=googlep |url-status=dead |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080309200149/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,943397,00.html?promoid=googlep |archive-date=March 9, 2008 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

On January 5, 2019, [[Marc Shaiman]] and [[Scott Wittman]] confirmed they were writing the music and lyrics for a new adaptation in an interview with [[Graham Norton]] on [[BBC Radio 2]]. The version had aimed for a [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] production in 2020, but was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://broadway.news/2018/05/14/musical-adaptation-like-hot-slated-broadway-2020/ |title=Musical adaptation of 'Some Like it Hot' slated for Broadway in 2020 |last=Huston |first=Caitlin |date=2018-05-14 |website=Broadway News |language=en-US |access-date=2019-01-07 |archive-date=January 7, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190107181128/https://broadway.news/2018/05/14/musical-adaptation-like-hot-slated-broadway-2020/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=McPhee |first=Ryan |date=2020-05-15 |title=Some Like It Hot Musical to Go Straight to Broadway, Scraps Chicago Premiere |work=Playbill |url=https://playbill.com/article/some-like-it-hot-musical-to-go-straight-to-broadway-scraps-chicago-premiere |access-date=April 20, 2022 |archive-date=April 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220420210928/https://playbill.com/article/some-like-it-hot-musical-to-go-straight-to-broadway-scraps-chicago-premiere |url-status=live }}</ref> On April 20, 2022, [[Some Like It Hot (musical)|the production]] was confirmed to star [[Christian Borle]] at the [[Shubert Theatre (Broadway)|Shubert Theatre]] with previews beginning November 1, 2022, with music by Shaiman, music and lyrics by Shaiman and Wittman, and book by [[Matthew Lopez (writer)|Matthew Lopez]] and [[Amber Ruffin]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Paulson |first=Michael |date=2022-04-20 |title='Some Like It Hot' Musical Plans Fall Opening on Broadway |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/20/theater/some-like-it-hot-musical-broadway.html |access-date=2022-04-20 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=April 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220420182043/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/20/theater/some-like-it-hot-musical-broadway.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The Broadway production went on to win four [[Tony Awards]] at the 76th annual ceremony in 2023: [[Casey Nicholaw]] for Best Choreography, [[Charlie Rosen (musician)|Charlie Rosen]] & [[Bryan Carter]] for Best Orchestrations, [[Gregg Barnes]] for Best Costume Design of a Musical, and [[J. Harrison Ghee]] for Best Leading Actor in a Musical.<ref>{{cite web |title=Home |url=https://somelikeithotmusical.com/#tony-awards |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230612200317/https://somelikeithotmusical.com/#tony-awards |archive-date=June 12, 2023 |access-date=June 12, 2023}}</ref> Ghee was the first openly non-binary actor to be both nominated for and to win a [[Tony Awards|Tony Award]], along with [[Alex Newell]], who won for their role in ''[[Shucked]]''.

==See also==
* [[List of American films of 1959]]
* [[Cross-dressing in film and television]]
* [[List of films considered the best]]

==Notes==
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==References==
*[[Foster Hirsch|Hirsch, Foster]]. 2023. ''Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties.'' [[Alfred A. Knopf]], New York. {{ISBN |978-0307958921}}

==Further reading==
* Curtis, Tony (2009). ''The Making of Some Like It Hot''. Wiley & Sons. Hoboken NJ. {{isbn|978-0-470-53721-3}}.
* [[Laurence Maslon|Maslon, Laurence]] (2009). ''Some Like It Hot: The Official 50th Anniversary Companion''. New York, HarperCollins. {{isbn|978-0-06-176123-2}}.

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* [https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-film-preservation-board/documents/some_like_hot.pdf        ''Some Like It Hot''] essay by David Eldridge at [[National Film Registry]]
* [https://books.google.com/books/about/America_s_Film_Legacy.html?id=deq3xI8OmCkC ''Some Like It Hot''] essay by Danel Eagan in America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry, A&C Black, 2010 {{ISBN|0826429777}}, pp.&nbsp;552–553
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* [[Roger Ebert]]'s [https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-some-like-it-hot-1959 review of ''Some Like It Hot'']
* [[Roger Lee Hall|Roger Hall]]'s [http://www.americanmusicpreservation.com/SomeLikeItHot.htm review of Adolph Deutsch's film score for ''Some Like It Hot''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190413194502/http://www.americanmusicpreservation.com/SomeLikeItHot.htm |date=April 13, 2019 }}
* [http://film.virtual-history.com/film.php?filmid=1819 ''Some Like It Hot'' (1959)] at Virtual History
* [https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6048-some-like-it-hot-how-to-have-fun ''Some Like It Hot: How to Have Fun''] an essay by Sam Wasson at the [[Criterion Collection]]

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