Some Like It Hot
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Sugar: Story of my life. I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.

Jerry: I'm a man!
Osgood: Nobody's perfect.

Mulligan: You shave with your spats on?
Spats Colombo: I sleep with my spats on.

Jerry: Now you've done it! Now you have done it.
Joe: Done what?
Jerry: You tore off one of my chests.

Sig Poliakoff: You're the wrong shape. Goodbye.
Joe: What are you looking for - hunchbacks or something?
Sig Poliakoff: It's not the backs that worry me.

Sweet Sue: Are you two from the Poliakoff agency?
Joe: Yes, we're the new girls.
Daphne: Brand new.

Sugar: It's me, Sugar.

Joe: So you got pinched in the elevator, so what? Would you rather be picking lead out of your navel?

Jerry: Have I got things to tell you.
Joe: What happened?
Jerry: I'm engaged.
Joe: Congratulations. Who's the lucky girl?
Jerry: I am.

Osgood: Which of these instruments do you play?
Jerry: Bull fiddle.
Osgood: Fascinating! Do you use a bow or do you just pluck it?
Jerry: Most of the time, I slap it.

Spats Colombo: Hello, copper. What brings you to Miami?
Mulligan: Heard you "opera lovers" were having a convention, so I thought I'd better be around in case anybody decided to sing.

Mulligan: You better bring a check in case the joint is raided.
Waiter: Who's gonna raid a funeral?
Mulligan: Some people got no respect for the dead.

Sugar: Don't fight it.

Joe: We didn't see anything.
Jerry: We didn't hear anything either.

Joe: But, you're not a girl! You're a guy, and, why would a guy wanna marry a guy?
Jerry: Security.

Sugar: I come from this musical family. My mother is a piano teacher and my father was a conductor.
Joe: Where did he conduct?
Sugar: On the Baltimore and Ohio.

Osgood: You must be quite a girl.
Daphne: Wanna bet?

Toothpick Charlie: Look, chief, I better blow 'cause if Columbo sees me, it's gonna be "Goodbye Charlie!"
Mulligan: Goodbye, Charlie.

Sugar: If my mother could only see me now.
Joe: I hope my mother never finds out.

Jerry: Oh, why did I let you talk me into this?
Joe: I thought you weren't speaking to me.

Continuity mistake: At night, on the train, Sugar gets the curtains stuck between the ladder and the side of the berth. In the next shot she opens the curtains while standing on the ladder and without moving it. (00:36:05)

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Trivia: Monroe wanted the film to be shot in colour (her contract stipulated that all her films were to be in colour), but Wilder convinced her to let it be shot in black and white when costume tests revealed that the makeup that Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon wore gave their faces a green tinge.

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Question: Does anyone know where I can get the colorized version of this film?

Answer: Amazon.com has the colorized version.

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