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Some Like It Hot
1939 7.2 (5 votes) 1h 5m
Genres
Comedy Music Romance
Production Companies
Paramount Pictures

Some Like It Hot

Let this show put you in swing with spring!

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.

Key Crew

Director: George Archainbaud

Screenplay: Lewis R. Foster, Wilkie C. Mahoney

Writer: Ben Hecht

Top Cast

Bob Hope
Bob Hope

Nicky Nelson

Shirley Ross
Shirley Ross

Lily Racquel

Una Merkel
Una Merkel

Flo Saunders

Gene Krupa
Gene Krupa

Gene Krupa

Rufe Davis
Rufe Davis

Stoney

Bernard Nedell
Bernard Nedell

Stephen Hanratty

Frank Sully
Frank Sully

Sailor Burke / The Living Corpse

Bernadene Hayes
Bernadene Hayes

Miss Marble

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