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About this Item
Antique paperback in red pictorial wraps with yellow & white lettering; cover photo of Marilyn Monroe hugging Tony Curtis & Jack Lemmon dressed up as women. Movie tie-in screenplay of the United Artists film starring Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon & Tony Curtis about two musicians who witness a mob murder & take it on the lam disguised as women with an all-girl band! A box office success, the film was lightly regarded by film critics during its original release, although it did receive six Academy Award nominations, including for Best Director and Best Screenplay. It was released without however, a Production Code seal of approval, withheld due to the film's unabashed sexual comedy. 8 pages of B&W stills from the movie are bound in but not numbered within the text. 144+8stills, Billy Wilder (born Samuel Wilder, 1906?2002) was an Austrian-American filmmaker. His career in Hollywood spanned five decades, and he is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Classic Hollywood cinema. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director eight times, winning twice, and for a screenplay Academy Award 13 times, winning three times. I. A. L. Diamond (born I?ec (Itzek) Domnici; 1920?1988) was a Romanian?American screenwriter, best known for his collaborations with Billy Wilder. Mass-market paperback has complete exterior with some indents and creases from storage - no tears. No reading creases. No ownership markings, although pages browning with age. 1st page of text has smudge and tear at top. Interior is otherwise tight, clean and unmarked. Copyright 1959. This copy from 3rd printing April 1959 (1st printing also in April 1959! Advance sales must have been truly awesome.) Printed in U.S.A. Signet catalog S1656. No ISBN nor LCCN. MSR = US $0.35. Seller Inventory # 008193
Bibliographic Details
Title: Some Like it Hot
Publisher: Signet, New York, NY U.S.A.
Publication Date: 1959
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Illustrator: United Artist Film
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Signed: No Ownership Markings
Edition: First Paperback
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