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Some Like It Hot (film)
''Some Like It Hot'' is a 1959 American crime comedy film directed, produced and co-written by Billy Wilder. It stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, with George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee, Grace Lee Whitney and Nehemiah Persoff in supporting roles. The screenplay by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is based on a screenplay by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan from the 1935 French film ''Fanfare of Love''. The film is about two musicians who disguise themselves by dressing as women to escape from mafia gangsters whom they witnessed committing a crime. ''Some Like It Hot'' opened to critical and commercial success and is considered to be one of the greatest films of all time. The film received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Actor, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, winning for Best Costume Design. In 1989, the Library of Congress selected it as one of the first 25 films for preservation in the United States National Film Registry f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macario Gómez Quibus
Macario Gómez Quibus, known by the professional nickname of Mac, (8 March 1926 – 20 July 2018) was a Spanish film poster artist and designer known for his work for some of Hollywood's best known films of the 20th Century. Some of his most prominent work includes the film posters for ''Doctor Zhivago (film), Doctor Zhivago'' (1965), ''For a Few Dollars More'' (1965), ''The Ten Commandments (1956 film), The Ten Commandments'' (1956), ''Some Like It Hot'' (1959), ''Psycho (1960 film), Psycho'' (1960), ''La gran familia'' (1962), and ''Dr. No (film), Dr. No'' (1962). Gómez was named an honorary member of the Catalan Film Academy in 2013. In 2014, he was awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi by the Generalitat de Catalunya for his artistic contributions to film. Macario Gómez Quibus died in Olesa de Montserrat, Spain, on 20 July 2018, at the age of 92. References 1926 births 2018 deaths Film poster artists Spanish poster artists Poster artists from Catalonia People from Reus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
