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Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American comedy film set in 1929, directed by Billy Wilder and starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. The film is about two musicians who dress in drag in order to escape from mafia gangsters whom they witnessed commit the Valentines Day Massacre. The supporting cast includes George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee and Nehemiah Persoff. The film was filmed in black and white, even though colour films were increasing in popularity.

Cast

 * Marilyn Monroe as Sugar "Kane" Kowalczyk, a ukulele player and singer
 * Tony Curtis as Joe/"Josephine"/"Shell Oil Junior"
 * Jack Lemmon as Jerry (Gerald)/"Daphne"
 * George Raft as "Spats" Colombo, a mobster from Chicago
 * Pat O'Brien as Detective Mulligan
 * Joe E. Brown as Osgood Fielding III
 * Nehemiah Persoff as "Little Bonaparte," a mobster
 * Joan Shawlee as Sweet Sue, the bandleader of "Sweet Sue and Her Society Syncopators"
 * Dave Barry as Mister Beinstock, the band manager for "Sweet Sue and Her Society Syncopators"
 * 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 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

According to York film notes, Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond didn't expect such a big star as Marilyn Monroe to take the part of Sugar in face Wilder admits that "Mitzi Gaynor was who we had in mind. The word came that Marilyn wanted the part. and then we had to have Marilyn".