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Some Like It Hot premieres in New York. Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond’s screenplay, set in 1929, is based on the 1935 French comedy Fanfare of Love written by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan. Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon star as a couple of Chicago musicians who, after witnessing a mob-orchestrated murder, don drag and hide out on a Miami-bound train in the company of an all-female band. Marilyn Monroe is the band's breathlessly voluptuous, slightly ditzy, chanteuse who tickles the boys’ libidinous fancy. George Raft, Joe E. Brown, Pat O’Brien, and Nehemiah Persoff co-star. The film wins an Oscar for Best Costume Design. Wilder at the top of his game
