Some Like It Hot

Some Like It Hot

1939
1h 5m
7.2

7.2/10

6 votes • View on IMDb

"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.

Status: Released

Language: EN

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Production Information

Production Companies
Paramount Pictures
Production Countries
United States of America
Spoken Languages
English

Quick Facts

Release Date May 19, 1939
Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt0031950

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

Richard Denning
Richard Denning

Mr. Weems

Clarence Wilson
Clarence Wilson

Mr. Ives

Dudley Dickerson
Dudley Dickerson

Sam

Wayne 'Tiny' Whitt
Wayne 'Tiny' Whitt

Bass Fiddler

Key Crew

George Archainbaud
Director
Wilkie C. Mahoney
Screenplay
Lewis R. Foster
Screenplay
Ben Hecht
Writer