Monroe and Wilder turn it into one of the most mesmerizing and blatantly sexual scenes in the movies. "Some Like It Hot" has no problems with its musical numbers because the singer is Monroe, who didn't have a great singing voice but was as good as Frank Sinatra at selling the lyrics.Ĭonsider her solo of "I Wanna Be Loved by You." The situation is as basic as it can be: a pretty girl standing in front of an orchestra and singing a song. The weak points in many Marx Brothers films are the musical interludes-not Harpo's solos, but the romantic duets involving insipid supporting characters. The movie has been compared to Marx Brothers classics, especially in the slapstick chases as gangsters pursue the heroes through hotel corridors. "You're a guy! Why would a guy want to marry a guy?" Lemmon: "Security!" "You're not a girl!" Curtis protests to Lemmon. Their relationship is flipped and mirrored in low comedy as Lemmon gets engaged to a real millionaire, played by Joe E.
Monroe lusts after money and gives him lessons in love. Monroe is the singer, who dreams of marrying a millionaire but despairs, "I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop." Curtis lusts for Monroe and disguises himself as a millionaire to win her. They join an all-girl orchestra on its way to Florida. Curtis and Lemmon play Chicago musicians who disguise themselves as women to avoid being rubbed out after they witness the St.
When sincere emotion strikes these characters, it blindsides them: Curtis thinks he wants only sex, Monroe thinks she wants only money, and they are as astonished as delighted to find they want only each other. It is underwired with Wilder's cheerful cynicism, so that no time is lost to soppiness and everyone behaves according to basic Darwinian drives.
Wilder's 1959 comedy is one of the enduring treasures of the movies, a film of inspiration and meticulous craft, a movie that's about nothing but sex and yet pretends it's about crime and greed.
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