
Film
Some Like It Hot
1939 · 1h 5m · Comedy · Music · Romance
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Overview
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.
Cast

Bob Hope
Nicky Nelson

Shirley Ross
Lily Racquel

Una Merkel
Flo Saunders

Gene Krupa
Gene Krupa

Rufe Davis
Stoney

Bernard Nedell
Stephen Hanratty

Frank Sully
Sailor Burke / The Living Corpse

Bernadene Hayes
Miss Marble

Richard Denning
Mr. Weems

Clarence Wilson
Mr. Ives

Dudley Dickerson
Sam
Wayne 'Tiny' Whitt
Bass Fiddler

J. Scott Smart
Joe - Hamburger Man
Bobby Dease
Man

Harry Barris
Harry, Piano Player

Nora Cecil
Mrs. Beckett (uncredited)
Crew
- George ArchainbaudDirector
- Wilkie C. MahoneyScreenplay
- Lewis R. FosterScreenplay
- Ben HechtWriter
Media
Details
- Release date
- May 19, 1939
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 1h 5m
- Rated
- NR
- Genres
- Comedy, Music, Romance
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