Some Like It Hot (1939)
1h 5m
Running Time
May 19, 1939Release Date
Some Like It Hot (1939)
1h 5m
Running Time
May 19, 1939Release Date
Network & Production Companies

Plot.
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.

Bob Hope
Nicky Nelson

Shirley Ross
Lily Racquel

Una Merkel
Flo Saunders

Gene Krupa
Gene Krupa / Songs

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)
Media.

Details.
Release DateMay 19, 1939
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 5m
Content RatingNR
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
musical
boardwalk
singer
ring
Wiki.
Some Like It Hot, reissued for television as Rhythm Romance, is a 1939 comedy film starring Bob Hope, Shirley Ross, and Gene Krupa. Directed by George Archainbaud, its screenplay was written by Wilkie C. Mahoney and Lewis R. Foster, based on the play The Great Magoo by Ben Hecht and Gene Fowler, which performed briefly on Broadway in 1932. The film was released the year before Road to Singapore converted theatre and radio star Hope into a huge movie box office draw. Legendary cinematographer Karl Struss filmed the movie.
The title of the film is taken from a nursery rhyme, and bears no relation to Billy Wilder's acclaimed 1959 comedy film Some Like It Hot starring Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, and Tony Curtis.
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