Film: Some Like It Hot. Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft and Joe E. Brown. Directed by: Billy Wilder. Story written by: Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan. Screenplay & Dialogues written by: Billy Wilder and IAL Diamond. Distributed by: © United Artists. Theatrical Release Date: March 29, 1959 (USA) Niceties by: www.youtube.com Synopsis! "Some Like It Hot" (1959) is an American comedy film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. The supporting cast includes George Raft, Joe E. Brown, Pat O'Brien and Nehemiah Persoff. The film was adapted by Billy Wilder and IAL Diamond from the story by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan. Logan had already written the story but without the gangsters for a German film, Fanfaren der Liebe (directed by Kurt Hoffmann, 1951), so that Wilder's film is seen by some as a remake. In 1981, after the worldwide success of the French comedy La Cage aux Folles, United Artists re-released Some Like It Hot to theatres. In 2000, the American Film Institute listed Some Like It Hot as the greatest American comedy film of all time. Plot! Two struggling musicians, Joe and Jerry (Curtis and Lemmon), witness what looks like the Saint Valentine's Day massacre of 1929. When the Chicago gangsters, led by 'Spats' Columbo (Raft) spot them, the duo flee for their lives. They escape and decide to leave town, only to find the sole out-of-town jobs available are in an all-girl band headed to Florida <b>...</b>