‘Some Like It Hot’ in the USA

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A perennial comedy favourite, Some Like It Hot is coming to cinemas across the United States.

  • July 18: Ron Robinson Theatre, Little Rock, Arkansas – Doors open at 3:00pm, and the film will begin promptly at 4:00pm. As our films are general admission seating, please be sure to arrive early to secure your seat. Beer, wine, and concessions will be available.
  • July 25-26: CAPA, Columbus, Ohio (35 mm) – “When a speakeasy gig turns into a gang execution in 1929 Chicago, musicians Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) find themselves on the run as witnesses in Billy Wilder’s raucous Some Like it Hot. The only ticket out of town for musicians is with an all-woman band enroute to a three-week gig in Florida, so naturally, the men disguise themselves as Josephine and Daphne and join them. Their bandmates make it increasingly difficult to stay in character, especially singer and ukulele player Sugar Kane Kowalcyzk (Marilyn Monroe) who is simply happy to find some confidants willing to break the band’s no liquor rule with her … Now all they can do is hope to survive long enough to find love.”
  • July 28: Campus Theatre, Lewisburg, PA – Free screening introduced by Dr. Rebecca Willoughby of the Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania, as part of ‘Director Series: Billy Wilder Edition’

  • July 29: Southampton Playhouse, NY – “Marilyn Monroe was never better than her giddy performance at the center of Billy Wilder’s boisterous proto-drag comedy, which follows Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis as a couple of wayward jazz musicians hiding from the mob in women’s garb. As both men grow smitten with Monroe’s Sugar Kane, they struggle to hide their secret, as the movie builds to a subversive climax that remains bold in its implications to this day. Wilder’s biggest commercial success is also his funniest.” (Introduced by comedian Bill McCarty as part of the Comedy Canon series)
  • July 30: Lucas Theatre, Savannah, Georgia – “Nobody’s perfect, but this film might very well be. After accidentally witnessing a murder, two Chicago musicians (Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis) go on the run from the mob disguised as women in an all-girl band headed to Florida. With gangsters hot on their trail, mayhem ensues as the men try to keep up their gender-bending ruses while growing close to the oh-so-lovely Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe) and a millionaire who can’t seem to take a hint. A true treasure of American cinema and one of the greatest comedies of all-time, Some Like It Hot proves that director Billy Wilder’s biting wit and cheery cynicism has only gotten better with age.”