"The plot of the 1959 film ""Some Like It Hot"", starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, is triggered by what event?"
Some Like It Hot inspired by the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre. Despite Monroe's contract requiring the film to be in color, she agreed to it being filmed in black and white after seeing that Curtis and Lemmon's makeup gave them a "ghoulish" appearance on color film. "Some Like It Hot" opened to largely positive reviews and is today considered to be one of the greatest films of all time. It was voted as the top comedy film by the American Film Institute on their list on AFI's "100 Years... 100 Laughs" poll in 2000. In 2017, the film was voted the best comedy of
Some Like It Hot (1939 film) is taken from a nursery rhyme, and bears no relation to Billy Wilder's acclaimed 1959 comedy film "Some Like It Hot" starring Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, and Tony Curtis. Some Like It Hot (1939 film) Some Like It Hot, reissued for television as Rhythm Romance, is a 1939 comedy film starring Bob Hope, Shirley Ross, and Gene Krupa. Directed by George Archainbaud, its screenplay was written by Wilkie C. Mahoney and Lewis R. Foster, based on the play "The Great Magoo" by Ben Hecht and Gene Fowler, which performed briefly on Broadway in 1932. The film was released the year