"For me, 'Some Like it Hot' is one of the great Weimar films, " Mr. Kardish said.

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The youngest film in the retrospective is "Some Like It Hot" (1959), directed by the Austrian-born Billy Wilder.

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One of America's most beloved comedies, 1959's zany "Some Like It Hot, " starring Marilyn Monroe and drag-bedecked Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, used the Hotel del Coronado as a main location.

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Some like it hot, sure, but this hot?

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