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Some Like It Hot (1939)

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.
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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.

Rating:NR
Genre:Comedy, Music, Romance
Directed By:George Archainbaud
Written By:Lewis R. Foster, Wilkie C. Mahoney, Ben Hecht
In Theaters:5/19/1939
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Runtime:65 minutes
Studio:Paramount Pictures

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Director

George Archainbaud

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Bob Hope

Nicky Nelson

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Shirley Ross

Lily Racquel

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Una Merkel

Flo Saunders

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Gene Krupa

Gene Krupa

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Rufe Davis

Stoney

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Bernard Nedell

Stephen Hanratty

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Frank Sully

Sailor Burke / The Living Corpse

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Bernadene Hayes

Miss Marble

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Richard Denning

Mr. Weems

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Clarence Wilson

Mr. Ives

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Dudley Dickerson

Sam

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