The Gillioz Theatre & Moxie Cinema Present SOME LIKE IT HOT, featuring Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis. Written and directed by Billy Wilder, it’s a B&W classic comedy from 1959 that will offer a great evening or afternoon at the theater.
What: SOME LIKE IT HOT
When: Saturday July 30 @ 7:00 PM
Sunday July 31 @ 2:00 PM
Where: Gillioz Theatre
Cost: Tickets are $6.00
When two musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
Tickets available by calling 417-863-9491 or at the Gillioz Box Office.
The all-time outrageous, satirical, comedy farce favorite, Some Like It Hot (1959) is one of the most hilarious, raucous films ever made. The ribald film is a clever combination of many elements: a spoof of 1920-30′s gangster films with period costumes and speakeasies, and romance in a quasi-screwball comedy with one central joke – entangled and deceptive identities, reversed sex roles and cross-dressing. In fact, one of the film’s major themes is disguise and masquerade – e.g., the drag costumes of the two male musicians, Joe’s disguise as a Cary Grant-like impotent millionaire, and Jerry’s happiness with a real wealthy, yacht-owning retiree.
It’s also a black and white film (reminiscent of the early film era) filled with non-stop action (e.g., the initial car chase), slapstick, and one-liners reminiscent of Marx Brothers and Mack Sennett comedies.
The exceptional film was the all-time highest-grossing comedy up to its time.The film was inspired by director Kurt Hoffmann’s German movie comedy/musicalFanfares of Love (1951) (aka Fanfaren der Liebe) with a similar plot element that writer/director Wilder borrowed: two down-on-their-luck, unemployed jazz musicians dress up as women in order to get two weeks of work in an all-women’s dance band bound for Florida, after witnessing a gang-land massacre in Prohibition-Era Chicago and being pursued by the mob.
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