Some Like It Hot is showing at the historic Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard – thought to have once been visited by a young Norma Jeane Baker – at 5 pm tomorrow, Sunday June 9.
When this comedy classic was first released in 1959, TIME magazine’s film critic was rather unkind to its leading lady (“As for Marilyn, she’s been trimmer, slimmer and sexier in earlier pictures.”)
In its centennial year of 2023, however, Some Like It Hot was listed among TIME‘s 100 Best Movies of the Past 10 Decades.
“Some Like It Hot is nothing short of glorious: Marilyn Monroe’s Sugar Kane Kowalczyk is the lead singer of a roaring-20s, all-girl band infiltrated by two male musicians in drag, played by Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis, on the run from mobsters … Though Marilyn’s saucy, frothy performance is bliss to watch, she is said to have been extremely difficult on set (not least because she was at the time secretly pregnant with Arthur Miller’s baby, a child she would lose). By the end of filming, Billy Wilder was totally drained. But after Marilyn’s death, he recalled, “There was a kind of exhaustion and there was a moment of ‘never again.’ All I can tell you is, if Marilyn were around today I would be down on my knees saying, ‘Please, let’s do it again.'”
The Marilyn Report 