This film explores the theme of homosexuality, a new theme for the time (1959). This Some Like It Hot Poster will be ideal for your decor.
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Description of this Poster Some Like It Hot
Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American romantic comedy film directed, produced, and co-written by Billy Wilder. It stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and features George Raft, Pat O’Brien, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee, Grace Lee Whitney, and Nehemiah Persoff in supporting roles. The screenplay by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is based on a screenplay by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan from the 1935 French film Fanfare d’amour. The film tells the story of two musicians who cross-dress in order to escape from Mafia gangsters they witness committing a crime (inspired by the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre).
Some Like It Hot was a critical and commercial success and is considered one of the greatest films of all time. The film received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay, and won the award for Best Costume Design. In 1989, the Library of Congress selected it as one of the first 25 films to be preserved in the United States National Film Registry for its “cultural, historical, or aesthetic significance.” It was voted the best comedy film by the American Film Institute in its 2000 AFI poll “100 Years…100 Laughs,” and was selected as the best comedy of all time in a 2017 BBC poll of 253 film critics from 52 countries. In 2005, the British Film Institute included the film in its list of “The Fifty Best Films for Children Up to 14.” In the 2012 Sight & Sound polls, it was ranked the 42nd greatest film ever made in the critics’ poll and 37th in the directors’ poll. In the previous Sight & Sound polls in 2002, the film was ranked 37th among critics and 24th among directors. In 2010, The Guardian considered it the third greatest comedy film of all time. In 2015, the film ranked 30th on the BBC’s list of “The 100 Greatest American Films,” voted for by film critics worldwide.
The film was produced without the approval of the Motion Picture Production Code (Hays Code) because it plays with the idea of homosexuality and features cross-dressing. The code’s scope had gradually weakened since the early 1950s, due to greater social tolerance for previously taboo subjects in cinema, but it officially remained in effect until the mid-1960s. The immense success of Some Like It Hot is considered one of the final nails in the Hays Code’s coffin.