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Tootsie
Why this pick
Like Some Like It Hot, it builds sparkling farce around a performer’s gender disguise, with escalating romantic complications and a sharp comic eye for show-business ego.
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MOVIE1959 2h 2m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Some Like It Hot
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Victor/Victoria
Why this pick
A polished, musical-era-inflected comedy of layered gender performance, romantic confusion, and elegant wit that shares Wilder’s affection for sophisticated farce.
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The Lady Eve
Why this pick
Its rapid-fire repartee, flirtatious reversals, and gleefully elaborate deceptions deliver the same buoyant blend of romance and expertly engineered comic chaos.
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Ball of Fire
Why this pick
This screwball delight pairs jazzy energy with immaculate comic timing, as a worldly woman upends sheltered men in a romance full of verbal sparkle.
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One, Two, Three
Why this pick
Wilder’s breakneck follow-up trades disguise for Cold War chaos, but keeps the machine-gun dialogue, escalating predicaments, and irreverent comic precision.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Marilyn Monroe
Sugar Kane Kowalczyk
Tony Curtis
Joe (Josephine)
Jack Lemmon
Jerry (Daphne)
George Raft
Spats Colombo
Joe E. Brown
Osgood Fielding III
Nehemiah Persoff
Little Bonaparte
Joan Shawlee
Sweet Sue
Billy Gray
Sig Poliakoff