Some Like It Hot (1939)

Plot Summary

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.

Full Cast & Characters

Bob Hope

Nicky Nelson

Shirley Ross

Lily Racquel

Una Merkel

Flo Saunders

Gene Krupa

Gene Krupa

Rufe Davis

Stoney

Bernard Nedell

Stephen Hanratty

Frank Sully

Sailor Burke / The Living Corpse

Bernadene Hayes

Miss Marble

Richard Denning

Mr. Weems

Clarence Wilson

Mr. Ives

Dudley Dickerson

Sam

Wayne 'Tiny' Whitt

Bass Fiddler

Director & Crew

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