Some Like It Hot Some Like It Hot Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American black and white romantic comedy film set in 1929, directed and produced by Billy Wilder, starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon. The supporting cast includes George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee, and Nehemiah Persoff. The screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is based on a screenplay by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan from the French film "Fanfare of Love". The film is about two musicians who dress in drag in order to escape from mafia gangsters whom they witnessed commit a crime
Some Like It Hot film "Fanfare of Love". However, 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 the script and Wilder worked with this to produce a new story. Although "Some Like It Hot" has been seen as a remake of "Fanfare of Love", as both films follow the story of two musicians in search of work, Wilder was the creator of the gangster subplot that kept the musicians on the run. The studio hired Barbette, a famous female impersonator, to coach Lemmon and