In Some Like it Hot, Marilyn Monroe gives her trademark “dumb blonde” performance with good humor. Monroe’s Sugar Kane is a hard drinking singer and ukulele player. Filmed in 1959, the prohibition era was still in living memory, which allowed for such a vivid depiction of both its convivial atmosphere and its violence, Monroe was increasingly unreliable. During the filming of Some Like it Hot, she developed a reputation for showing up two to three hour late and messing up her lines.

Source: Michael Machera