Film: Some Like It Hot
Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis star as two jazzmen-turned-drag artists on the run from the mob, who join Marilyn Monroe’s all-female band.
Location
BFVAC - Loew Auditorium
Sponsored by
Hopkins Center for the Arts
Audience
Public
Introduction by Prof. Noah Isenberg
Director Billy Wilder pushes the envelope on the Hays Code, casting Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis as two jazzmen-turned-drag artists running from the mob. After getting into hot water in Prohibition-era Chicago, Joe (Curtis) and Jerry (Lemmon) high tail it for Miami, where disguised as Josephine and Daphne, they join an all-female band. Their new life gets tricky when the sultry lead singer Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe) proves irresistible, and trickier still when the mob travels south. D: Billy Wilder, US, 1959, 120m
Location
BFVAC - Loew Auditorium
Sponsored by
Hopkins Center for the Arts
Audience
Public
