'Some Like It Hot', 1959

Penny McGuiggan, a trumpeter and actress who appeared in Billy Wilder’s classic 1959 gangster spoof, Some Like It Hot, has died. Her (then uncredited) role was as a member of Sweet Sue’s Society Syncopators, an all-girl jazz band headed by conductor Sweet Sue (Joan Shawlee), singer Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe), and their hapless, bespectacled male manager, Bienstock (Dave Barry.) Continue reading →