Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond’s screenplay for 1959’s Some Like It Hot (directed by Wilder) was produced without approval from the Motion Picture Production Code (colloquially known as the Hays Code) because it featured cross-dressing. Its subsequent success is attributed as another nail in the coffin of the suffocating moralism of the Hays Code, which […] The post <i>Some Like It Hot</i> sizzles on tour appeared first on Chicago Reader.