Giunti Odeon, in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna, celebrates the 100th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s birth (June 1, 1926) with the first of 4 masterpieces starring her in the Marilyn 100 retrospective. Sugar Kane, the ukulele player in this undisputed masterpiece of cinema history, Some Like It Hot, is the only true romantic heroine in Marilyn Monroe’s destiny. Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond (the prince of Hollywood screenwriters) portray her as a creature genetically predisposed to melancholy (“as soon as they start playing *My Melancholic Baby*, I lose my mind”), all fragility and tremor (“she looks like she’s made of jelly”) even in the voluptuous body that Charles Lang and Orry-Kelly literally strip of light—a girl who wants to be loved and then wants to put an end to love in two songs that still send shivers down the spine (while a different kind of shiver can be felt when, speaking of Tony Curtis, she sighs that he is “suicidally beautiful”.