The launching pad for Billy Wilder's comedy classic was a rusty old German farce, Fanfares of Love, whose two main characters were male musicians so desperate to get a job that they disguise themselves as women and play with an all-girl band in gangster-dominated 1929 Chicago. In this version, musicians Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) lose their jobs when a speakeasy owned by mob boss Spats Columbo (George Raft) is raided by prohibition agent Mulligan (Pat O'Brien). Several weeks later, on February 14th, Joe and Jerry get a job perfroming in Urbana and end up witnessing a gangland massacre in a parking garage. Fearing that they will be next on the mobsters' hit lists, Joe devises an ingenious plan for disguising their identities. Soon they are all dolled up and performing as Josephine and Daphne in Sweet Sue's all-girl orchestra. En route to Florida by train with Sweet Sue's band, the boys (girls?) make the acquaintance of Sue's lead singer Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe, in what may be her best performance). Joe and Jerry immediately fall in love, though of course their new feminine identities prevent them from acting on their desires. Still, they are determined to woo her, and they enact an elaborate series of gender-bending ruses complicated by the fact that flirtatious millionaire Osgood Fielding (Joe E. Brown) has fallen in love with "Daphne." The plot gets even thicker when Spats Columbo and his boys show up in Florida. Nominated for several Oscars, Some Like It Hot ended up the biggest moneymaking comedy up to 1959. Full of hilarious set pieces and movie in-jokes, it has not tarnished with time and in fact seems to get better with each passing year, as its cross-dressing humor keeps it only more and more up-to-date. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Side #1
0. Scene Selections
1. Title/If You Gotta Go... [5:09]
2. ...This Is The Way [6:53]
3. Seeking Sax And Bass [6:13]
4. Bumped Off [5:49]
5. A Whole Different Sex [4:59]
6. Sugar Kowalczyk [5:50]
7. "Party In Upper 7" [13:37]
8. Life As A Red Flag [5:49]
9. "Shell Oil Junior" [2:59]
10. Millionaire Swap [11:51]
11. Fighting Freud [8:14]
12. Daphne's Last Chance [10:55]
13. Italian Opera Lovers [4:56]
14. Run From Commitment [1:05]
15. Spats Takes The Cake [4:50]
16. "Nobody's Perfect" [9:37]

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• Apartment
• Ball of Fire
• Bathing Beauty
• Bride Came C.O.D.
• Desperately Seeking Susan & Making Mr. Right: Original Soundtracks from the Films of Susan Seidelman
• Double Indemnity
• Fortune Cookie
• Front Page
• Irma La Douce
• Kiss Me, Stupid
• Kiss of Death
• Lady for a Day
• Long Good Friday
• Love in the Afternoon
• Man with Bogart's Face
• Midnight Run
• My Blue Heaven
• My Little Chickadee
• Nuns on the Run
• One, Two, Three
• Sylvester Stallone in Oscar
• Petrified Forest
• Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
• Sabrina
• Scarface
• Seems Like Old Times
• Seven Year Itch
• She Done Him Wrong
• St. Valentine's Day Massacre
• Stalag 17
• Sunset Boulevard
• Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came
• Tootsie
• Victor/Victoria
• Fedora
• Avanti!
• Major and the Minor
• Tarzan's Fight for Life
• Mrs. Doubtfire
• Celluloid Closet
• Birdcage
• Naked Truth
• All the Queen's Men

• Some Like It Hot [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
• Some Like It Hot [Widescreen]
• Some Like It Hot [Varese]
• Some Like it Hot [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
• Some Like It Hot [Collector's Edition] [2 Discs]
• Some Like It Hot [Decades Collection]
• Some Like It Hot [Blu-ray]
• SOME LIKE IT HOT/IRMA LA DOUCE / O.S.T. (UK)
• Some Like it Hot [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
• Some Like it Hot [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
• Some Like It Hot [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]
• Some Like It Hot [Criterion Collection]