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 on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs poll in 2000. By 1962, the film had grossed $14 million in the US. Roger Ebert wrote about the movie, "Wilder's 1959 comedy is one of the enduring treasures of the movies, a film of inspiration and meticulous craft." John McCarten of "The New Yorker" referred to the film as "a jolly, carefree enterprise". Richard Roud, writing for "The Guardian" in 1967, said with this film Wilder comes "close to perfection". On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 96% based on 53 reviews, with an average rating of 9/10. The website's