Movie of the Day: Some Like It Hot (1959)

2h | Comedy, Romance | 14 April 1959 (Japan)

Director:  Billy Wilder

Writers: Billy Wilder (screenplay), I.A.L. Diamond (screenplay)

Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon

Memorable Quotes

Jerry: Have I got things to tell you! 

Joe: What happened? 

Jerry: I'm engaged. 

Joe: Congratulations. Who's the lucky girl? 

Jerry: I am!

[at the booking office, trying to be hired] 

Joe: What kind of a band is this, anyway? 

Sig Poliakoff: You gotta be under twenty-five. 

Jerry: We could pass for that. 

Sig Poliakoff: You gotta be blonde. 

Jerry: We could dye our hair. 

Sig Poliakoff: And you gotta be girls. 

Jerry: We could... 

Joe: No, we couldn't!

Jerry: Now you've done it! Now you have done it! 

Joe: Done what? 

Jerry: You tore off one of my chests!

Joe: There's another problem. 

Jerry: Like what? 

Joe: Like, what are you gonna do on your honeymoon? 

Jerry: We've been discussing that. He wants to go to the Riviera but I kinda lean towards Niagara Falls.

Junior: Syncopators. Does that mean you play that very fast music... jazz? 

Sugar: Yeah. Real Hot. 

Junior: I guess some like it hot. I personally prefer classical music.

Junior: [Kissing] I think you're on the right track. 

Sugar: I must be. Your glasses are beginning to steam up.

Osgood: [referring to his mother] Right now, she thinks I'm out there on my yacht - deep sea fishing! 

Daphne: Well, pull in your reel, Mr. Fielding, you're barking up the wrong fish!

Sugar: Been waiting long? 

Junior: [gallantly] It's not how long you wait, it's who you're waiting for!

Junior: Look, if all you're interested in is whether I am married or not... 

Sugar: Oh, I'm not interested at all. 

Junior: Well, I'm not. 

Sugar: That's very interesting!

Sugar: If my mother could only see me now. 

Joe: I hope *my* mother never finds out.

Sugar: Story of my life. I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.

Osgood: I am Osgood Fielding the third. 

Daphne: I'm Cinderella the second.

[last lines] 

Jerry: Oh no you don't! Osgood, I'm gonna level with you. We can't get married at all. 

Osgood: Why not? 

Jerry: Well, in the first place, I'm not a natural blonde. 

Osgood: Doesn't matter. 

Jerry: I smoke! I smoke all the time! 

Osgood: I don't care. 

Jerry: Well, I have a terrible past. For three years now, I've been living with a saxophone player. 

Osgood: I forgive you. 

Jerry: [tragically] I can never have children! 

Osgood: We can adopt some. 

Jerry: But you don't understand, Osgood! Ohh... 

[Jerry finally gives up and pulls off his wig] 

Jerry: [normal voice] I'm a man! 

Osgood: [shrugs] Well, nobody's perfect!