Some Like it Hot

“Nobody’s perfect,” utters Joe E. Brown in one of the most famous final lines in film history. And yet, Some Like It Hot has to be the perfect comedy. Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon play a pair of Prohibition-era musicians who go on the lam after an unlucky run-in with the murderous Chicago mob by dressing in drag and infiltrating an all-female band. As they head to Miami, their escape quickly turns into a cat-and-mouse adventure that will lead them to true love—only not the one they were expecting.

For her performance as Sugar Kane, the band’s heartbroken vocalist and ukulele player for whom both friends quickly find themselves in competition, Marilyn Monroe, garnered a much-deserved Golden Globe. A film that can be seen over and over again with the same joy.