Double Feature: SOME LIKE IT HOT & AVANTI! July 23, 2010

Double Feature: SOME LIKE IT HOT, 1959, MGM Repertory, 120 min. Cross-dressing musicians Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon take it on the lam from the Chicago mob, while luscious Marilyn Monroe falls for a playboy who’s a playgirl … Director Billy Wilder’s blend of sexual confusion and slapstick gave his three stars arguably the best comic roles of their careers.

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AVANTI!, 1972, MGM Repertory, 140 min. Dir. Billy Wilder. Uptight millionaire Jack Lemmon has his eyes opened (and more) when he travels to Italy to collect his late father's corpse – and finds himself falling for the lovely daughter (Juliet Mills) of his dad's Italian mistress.

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