Some Like It Hot

Some Like It Hot (1939)

Let this show put you in swing with spring!

  • Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
  • Release Date: 1939-05-19
  • User Rating: 7.2/10 from 5 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 5min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Paramount Pictures
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: George Archainbaud
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Summary

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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  • Bob Hope

    as Nicky Nelson
  • Shirley Ross

    as Lily Racquel
  • Una Merkel

    as Flo Saunders
  • Gene Krupa

    as Gene Krupa
  • Rufe Davis

    as Stoney
  • Bernard Nedell

    as Stephen Hanratty
  • Frank Sully

    as Sailor Burke / The Living Corpse
  • Bernadene Hayes

    as Miss Marble
  • Richard Denning

    as Mr. Weems
  • Clarence Wilson

    as Mr. Ives
  • Dudley Dickerson

    as Sam
  • Wayne 'Tiny' Whitt

    as Bass Fiddler
  • J. Scott Smart

    as Joe - Hamburger Man
  • Bobby Dease

    as Man
  • Harry Barris

    as Harry, Piano Player
  • Nora Cecil

    as Mrs. Beckett (uncredited)
  • Byron Foulger

    as Radio Announcer (uncredited)
  • Russell Hopton

    as Barker (uncredited)
Directing George Archainbaud Director
Sound Burton Lane Songs
Sound Gene Krupa Songs
Sound Hoagy Carmichael Songs
Writing Frank Loesser Lyricist
Sound Remo Biondi Songs
Writing Ben Hecht Theatre Play
Writing Gene Fowler Theatre Play
Writing Lewis R. Foster Screenplay
Writing Wilkie C. Mahoney Screenplay
Sound George Dutton Sound
Writing Ben Hecht Writer

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