1. Four years before he picked Marilyn Monroe for the role of Sugar Kane, Billy Wilder directed her in what film, known best of all for a scene with a certain billowing dress?
2. When the funeral parlor speakeasy is busted at the beginning of the film, Jerry and Joe get tipped off to the raid moments before it happens when Jerry sees Agent Mulligan poking a hole in what with his federal agent badge?
3. When Josephine and Daphne see Sugar for the first time, Daphne marvels at Sugar's ability to walk effortlessly despite her shape (and in heels). Daphne exclaims: "Look how she moves! It's just like _____ on springs!" What product, trademarked in 1897 and still popular today, fills in the blank?
4. When Sugar, Josephine and Daphne first get to know one another in the train bathroom, the following exchange ensues:
Sugar: "I come from this musical family. My mother is a piano teacher and my father was a conductor."
Josephine: "Where did he conduct?"
Sugar: "On the _____ _____ _____."
Where, exactly, did her father "conduct?"
5. When Daphne tells Joe that she's engaged, Joe responds with disbelief, saying "But you're a guy! And why would a guy want to marry a guy?" What is Daphne's answer?
6. George Raft had been a well-known screen presence in Hollywood for decades, often playing gangsters, before starring in Some Like It Hot in 1959. His role as Spats Colombo makes numerous references to these older films. When he sees a young gangster-in-training flipping a coin in the air, he asks, "Where did you learn that cheap trick?" The implication is that he learned it from what film, in which Raft is the supporting character with a coin-flipping habit?
7. When asked who he tried to embody while in character as Josephine, Tony Curtis cited actress Eve Arden, his mother and this third slightly more famous woman. Name the Oscar-winning leading lady that he attempted to channel, famous for her elegance and roles in Hitchcock films.
8. Due to its references to transvestitism, homosexuality, and other elements of purported "sex perversion," Some Like It Hotfailed to garner a seal of approval from the PCA (Production Code Administration). This administration enforced an infamous set of restrictive principles named after what Chairman of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America?
9. Billy Wilder's style was influenced significantly by that of another German-Jewish emigré, a director he idolized and ultimately worked with. Name Wilder's mentor, who was known for his distinctive "touch."
10. Marilyn Monroe traveled to the set of Some Like It Hotaccompanied by a small entourage, including her husband at the time. Like one of Monroe's other husbands, he was famous, but perhaps not quite enough of an icon to make it into the lyrics of a Simon & Garfunkel song. Name him.
11. At the 10th Annual Convention for the Friends of Italian Opera (wink, wink) chaired by Little Bonaparte, Spats Colombo and his henchmen meet their end when they are shot by a gunman who has been hiding in a what?
12. Osgood Fielding III utters a catchphrase at several points in the film when he is impressed or awed by something. What is the word he uses?
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, and his brief spot in Punch Drunk Love is great as well. There's this little beat as he gets pissed on the call with Sandler that just kills me. He was one of the greats.
