Some Like It Hot

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Some Like It Hot (1939)

Directed by George Archainbaud

“Let this show put you in swing with spring!”

Comedy, Music, Romance · 1h 05m

Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the sidewalk to attract the customers, "The Living Corpse" and other low-rent acts aren't enough to lure the seen-it-all boardwalk strollers, and the landlord closes the show in lieu of never-paid rent. Nicky, always promoting, goes to Stephen Hanratty, head of the pier's Dance Pavilion, to plug Krupa's band as an attraction, but Hanratty won't even listen to them. But, while there, he meets singer Lily Racquel, who knows he is a phoney but might have the ability to to talk a radio-station manager into giving her an audition. She gives him a ring to help finance the project; he promptly loses it in a crap-game.

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Cast

Crew

Director
George Archainbaud
Screenplay
Lewis R. Foster, Wilkie C. Mahoney
Writer
Ben Hecht

Details

Release date
1939-05-19
Runtime
1h 05m
Genres
Comedy, Music, Romance
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English
Countries
United States of America
Production
Paramount Pictures