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Some Like It Hot (1939)

Some Like It Hot (1939)

Comedy Romance Music

Let this show put you in swing with spring!

Release Date: 1939, May 19
Directors: George Archainbaud
Countries: United States of America
Production: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Pictures
Cast: Richard Denning, Una Merkel, Bob Hope, Nora Cecil, Byron Foulger, Gene Krupa, Harry Barris, Frank Sully, Shirley Ross, Clarence Wilson, Bernadene Hayes, Bernard Nedell

Overview:

Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the sidewalk to attract the customers, "The Living Corpse" and other low-rent acts aren't enough to lure the seen-it-all boardwalk strollers, and the landlord closes the show in lieu of never-paid rent. Nicky, always promoting, goes to Stephen Hanratty, head of the pier's Dance Pavilion, to plug Krupa's band as an attraction, but Hanratty won't even listen to them. But, while there, he meets singer Lily Racquel, who knows he is a phoney but might have the ability to to talk a radio-station manager into giving her an audition. She gives him a ring to help finance the project; he promptly loses it in a crap-game.

Keywords:

musical ring singer boardwalk