Some Like It Hot

Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the sidewalk to attract the customers, "The Living Corpse" and other low-rent acts aren't enough to lure the seen-it-all boardwalk strollers, and the landlord closes the show in lieu of never-paid rent. Nicky, always promoting, goes to Stephen Hanratty, head of the pier's Dance Pavilion, to plug Krupa's band as an attraction, but Hanratty won't even listen to them. But, while there, he meets singer Lily Racquel, who knows he is a phoney but might have the ability to to talk a radio-station manager into giving her an audition. She gives him a ring to help finance the project; he promptly loses it in a crap-game.

Cast

Bob Hope Nicky Nelson Shirley Ross Lily Racquel Una Merkel Flo Saunders Gene Krupa Gene Krupa Rufe Davis Stoney Bernard Nedell Stephen Hanratty Frank Sully Sailor Burke / The Living Corpse Bernadene Hayes Miss Marble Richard Denning Mr. Weems Clarence Wilson Mr. Ives Dudley Dickerson Sam

Wayne 'Tiny' Whitt Bass Fiddler

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