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Some Like It Hot

72% | May 19, 1939 | Comedy, Music, Romance

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.

Featured Crew

George Archainbaud
Director
Burton Lane
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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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