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Hollywood in 1959

Some Like It Hot demonstrates how comic treatment can expose the Production Code’s weakening authority.

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1959 · Comedy

Some Like It Hot

Two musicians flee gangsters by joining an all-women band in Wilder’s escalating comedy of disguise and desire.

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1959 · Musical drama

Porgy and Bess

The Gershwin opera reached the screen in a large-scale production led by Poitier and Dandridge.

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