Selected as America"s Funniest Movie by the American Film Institute, "Some Like it Hot" remains an undisputed classic fifty years after its release, as it continues to capture three of American culture"s great preoccupations-jazz, gangsters, and Marilyn Monroe. "The Official 50th Anniversary Companion" details the history of this side-splitting farce from its roots as an obscure 1951 German film to its Hollywood conception, where Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond transposed the material to the Roaring Twenties and director Wilder cast the brilliant Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon in the starring roles. As well as previously unpublished images, posters, and documents from the MGM archives, this book includes selections from the screenplay, casting notes, on-set production anecdotes, and location shots from the fabled Del Coronado in San Diego (doubling for Florida). In addition, songs and music used in the film"s jazz era setting, background information on Chicago...