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.
Director:
George Archainbaud
Writers:
Lewis R. Foster, Wilkie C. Mahoney.
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Bob Hope as Nicky Nelson |
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Shirley Ross as Lily Racquel |
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Una Merkel as Flo Saunders |
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Gene Krupa as Gene Krupa |
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Rufe Davis as Stoney |
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Bernard Nedell as Stephen Hanratty |
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Frank Sully as Sailor Burke / The Living Corpse |
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Bernadene Hayes as Miss Marble |
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Richard Denning as Mr. Weems |
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Clarence Wilson as Mr. Ives |
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Dudley Dickerson as Sam |
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Wayne 'Tiny' Whitt as Bass Fiddler |
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J. Scott Smart as Joe - Hamburger Man |
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Bobby Dease as Man |
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Harry Barris as Harry, Piano Player |
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Nora Cecil as Mrs. Beckett (uncredited) |
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Byron Foulger as Radio Announcer (uncredited) |
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Russell Hopton as Barker (uncredited) |
| Directing | George Archainbaud | Director |
| Writing | Frank Loesser | Lyricist |
| Sound | Hoagy Carmichael | Songs |
| Sound | Burton Lane | Songs |
| Sound | Remo Biondi | Songs |
| Sound | Gene Krupa | Songs |
| Writing | Gene Fowler | Theatre Play |
| Writing | Ben Hecht | Theatre Play |
| Writing | Lewis R. Foster | Screenplay |
| Writing | Wilkie C. Mahoney | Screenplay |
| Sound | George Dutton | Sound |
| Writing | Ben Hecht | Writer |
