See 'Some Like It Hot' in Cool Library Auditorium

Join librarian and film enthusiast Doug Swiszcz for another A Slice of Lemmon: A Summer Matinee Movie Series, on Wednesday afternoon, July 17.

This week's featured comedy is Some Like It Hot. It continues the celebration of Jack Lemmon at 1 pm in the air-conditioned Barrington Public Library auditorium. 

Some Like It Hot was directed by Billy Wilder. The 1959 film centers on two late 1920s Chicago musicians (Lemmon and Tony Curtis), who witness a gangland slaying and then try to hide from the mobsters by disguising themselves as women.  

They head to Florida with an all-girl band that includes the voluptuous Sugar Kane Kowalczyk (Marilyn Monroe). Curtis is determined to seduce Sugar Kane in spite of his assumed identity, while Lemmon finds himself being pursued by a lecherous older millionaire. 

The film was a project that allowed Lemmon to tap into his gifts as a farceur. The unrated movie is in black and white, and runs for 2 hours. 

It is preceded by commentary from Swiszcz, and is free and open to all.

Here’s the rest of the lineup:

July 24: The Apartment (1960) – Lemmon is an insurance company employee who hopes to climb the corporate ladder by lending his apartment to philandering executives for their trysts. Shirley Maclaine and Fred MacMurray co-star. (Black & white, 125 min., unrated)

July 31: The Odd Couple (1968) – Lemmon and Walter Matthau are mismatched roommates Felix Ungar and Oscar Madison in this film version of Neil Simon’s classic Broadway play. (Color, 105 min., rated G)