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elleng

(135,637 posts) Sat Aug 31, 2024, 07:03 PM Aug 31

TCM (Tony Curtis) 8:00 PM Some Like It Hot (1959)

Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American crime comedy[4] film directed, produced and co-written by Billy Wilder. It stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, with George Raft, 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 who disguise themselves by dressing as women to escape from mafia gangsters whom they witnessed committing a crime.

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TCM (Tony Curtis) 8:00 PM Some Like It Hot (1959) (Original Post) elleng Aug 31 OP

I loved that movie. Jack Lemmon was the true star in my opinion. LoisB Aug 31 #1

He often is/was! elleng Aug 31 #5

10:15 PM: The Defiant Ones Rocknation Aug 31 #2

Curtis and Lemmon in drag! That was so wonderful! CTyankee Aug 31 #3

GREAT dialog! elleng Aug 31 #4

The Great Race, also with the hysterically funny Jack Lemmon, was on earlier surfered Aug 31 #6

LoisB

(8,485 posts)

1. I loved that movie. Jack Lemmon was the true star in my opinion.

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Sat Aug 31, 2024, 07:29 PM

Aug 31

elleng

(135,637 posts)

5. He often is/was!

Reply to LoisB (Reply #1)

Sat Aug 31, 2024, 07:45 PM

Aug 31

Rocknation

(44,873 posts)

2. 10:15 PM: The Defiant Ones

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Sat Aug 31, 2024, 07:40 PM

Aug 31

12:00 AM: The Boston Strangler
2:15 AM: Sweet Smell of Success
4:00 AM: Insignificance

Great resume, bro -- thanks for the artistic inspiration

Rocknation