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starring Jack Lemmon, Sissy...
This weekend Jack Lemmon '47 returns to his alma mater; and Harvard has prepared the fatted calf for him. As part of the third annual Arts First festivities, Lemmon will receive the first Harvard Arts Medal, an award meant for "a distinguished Harvard or Radcliffe graduate or faculty member who has made an outstanding contribution to the arts." Lemmon will also be the subject of a tribute at the Harvard Film Archive, which will show four of Lemmon's representative films...
...Some Like It Hot," a gangster-era comedy directed by Billy Wilder and scripted by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond, features Lemmon's best performance ever. Lemmon and co-star Tony Curtis play a pair of Chicago musicians who witness the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre. The Mob wants the two permanently silenced and the musicians decide to leave Chicago any way they...
With frilly frocks, cloche hats and new names--Curtis becomes 'Josephine,' and Lemmon 'Daphne'--in place, they join an all girl band with a gig in far-away Florida. This is no ordinary all-girl band, for it features Marilyn Monroe, at her ripest and most Iuscious, as Sugar Kane, a chanteuse and clarinet player with a weakness for liquor and rakes...
Meanwhile, Daphne is courted by a real millionaire (played by the great Joe E. Brown) who showers her with presents, leads her through a whirlwind romance and finally proposes marriage. (In one of the film's most infamous exchanges Josephine asks Daphne, "Why would a guy marry another guy?" Lemmon answers, "Security...