Some Like It Hot
(1959)
"There are laws, conventions; it's just not being done!" Joe admonishes Gerry, who has accepted a marriage proposal from the millionaire Osgood Fielding III (Joe E. Brown). Well, yeah, but fewer laws and weaker conventions now, and it is being done in increasing numbers. How cool is that?One of those films that is always a pleasant surprise--Curtis is as entertaining impersonating Cary Grant as he is in Josephine drag, Lemmon's postproposal intoxication as Daphne is priceless, and Monroe was never more . . . well, just more. And, of course, as has often been pointed out, Brown gets to deliver one of the half-dozen or so greatest last lines in the history of the medium.
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