“Nobody’s perfect, as the film’s immortal closing line has it, but some comedies are.” –Times (UK)

On February 8, 2025, Jack Lemmon would have turned 100 years old. Help us celebrate this beloved leading man, whose iconic work in both comedy and drama put a charming face on our deepest anxieties, by watching one of his most enduring classics, Billy Wilder’s gender-bending caper comedy SOME LIKE IT HOT! This sizzling masterpiece set a new standard for Hollywood comedy. After witnessing a mob hit, Chicago musicians Joe and Jerry (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, in landmark performances) skip town by donning drag and joining an all-female band en route to Miami. The charm of the group’s singer, Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe, at the height of her bombshell powers), leads them ever further into extravagant lies, as Joe assumes the persona of a millionaire to woo her and Jerry’s female alter ego winds up engaged to a tycoon. With a whip-smart script by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond, and sparking chemistry among its finely tuned cast, Some Like It Hot is as deliriously funny and fresh today as it was when it first knocked audiences out several decades ago.

This film is screening as part of Arkadin’s month-long focus on DYNAMIC DUOS, movies based around electrifying and often unlikely pairs.

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