The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Presents
A Special Screening of SOME LIKE IT HOT
In Honor of the 100th Anniversary of United Artists
Friday, March 1, 2019
WHAT | Academy at Metrograph. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Presents
A Special Screening of SOME LIKE IT HOT in Honor of the 100th Anniversary of United Artists
WHEN | Friday, March 1, 2019, 7:30PM
ABOUT SOME LIKE IT HOT | Few works in film history have earned so many horselaughs through the years as has Wilder's relentlessly zany gender-bender, which has Joe and Jerry (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon) escaping certain doom as witnesses to mob murders in Prohibition Era Chicago by donning showgirl drag and, as Josephine and Daphne, joining a Florida- bound all-female review. Complications ensue when Jerry catches the eye of an elderly millionaire, and Joe falls head over heels for Sugar Kane Kowalczyk (Marilyn Monroe, in a role that makes the most of her talent for combining pathos and comedy). Wilder brings the sexual anarchy of the Weimar Berlin cabaret into Eisenhower America, in a work which has lost nothing of its cheeky daring and exuberant hilarity.
*In honor of the 100-year anniversary of the famed movie studio United Artists (UA), events will be taking place in celebration of their historic century and lasting impact in the motion-picture industry.
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