Billy Wilder’s seminal cross-dressing comedy “Some Like It Hot” plays differently today than it did in 1959.
A modern audience may be able to more sharply identify the film’s undercurrent of queerness, as when Jerry (Jack Lemmon) finds that he may be more comfortable as a woman and entertains the notion of marrying a man (Joe E.
Brown).
There is also a scene late in the film when Joe/Josephine (Tony Curtis), while still dressed as a woman, kisses Sugar (Marilyn Monroe) on stage in front of a whole audience, cementing a element of female queerness earlier hinted at in a booze-soaked homosocial…The post Some Like It Hot Caused a Rift Between Billy Wilder and Marilyn Monroe appeared first on /Film.
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