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Rise & Shine – Kupuna Movie Mornings – “SOME LIKE IT HOT” (1959)
Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American crime comedy film directed, produced and co-written by Billy Wilder. It stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, with George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee 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 of Love. The film is about two musicians who disguise themselves by dressing as women to escape from mafia gangsters whom they witnessed committing a crime.
Some Like It Hot opened to critical and commercial success and is considered to be one of the greatest films of all time. The film received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Actor, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, winning for Best Costume Design. In 1989, the Library of Congress selected it as one of the first 25 films for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
The film was produced without approval from the Motion Picture Production Code (Hays Code) because it features cross-dressing. The code had been gradually weakening in its scope since the early 1950s, owing to greater social tolerance for taboo topics in film, but it was enforced until the mid-1960s. The overwhelming success of Some Like It Hot is considered one of the reasons behind the retirement of the Hays Code.
The Hawaii Theatre and the Hawaii LGBT Legacy Foundation have partnered to bring the community a Film Series is to create an alcohol free experience in the morning hours, providing an activity for seniors and other film lovers to enjoy a morning of social interaction with coffee, snacks and a movie. Over the course of the year, we’ll present this series and offer tickets on a “pay what you can” basis. The lobby at 11:00 AM with complimentary sponsored coffee, and then the film to start at 11:30 AM.