Some Like It Hot
“The movie too HOT for words!”
In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in.
Genres
Comedy, Romance, Crime
Studio
The Mirisch Company
Language
en
Status
Released
How Some Like It Hot performed
Budget
$2.9M
Worldwide Gross
$25.0M
Gross Profit
$22.1M
Return
8.6× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$4M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Joe (Josephine)
Tony Curtis
Joe (Josephine)
Jerry (Daphne)
Jack Lemmon
Jerry (Daphne)
Sugar Kane Kowalczyk
Marilyn Monroe
Sugar Kane Kowalczyk
Spats Colombo
George Raft
Spats Colombo
Detective Mulligan
Pat O'Brien
Detective Mulligan
Osgood Fielding III
Joe E. Brown
Osgood Fielding III
Little Bonaparte
Nehemiah Persoff
Little Bonaparte
Sweet Sue
Joan Shawlee
Sweet Sue
Sig Poliakoff
Billy Gray
Sig Poliakoff
Toothpick Charlie
George E. Stone
Toothpick Charlie
Beinstock
Dave Barry
Beinstock
Spats' Henchman
Mike Mazurki
Spats' Henchman
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