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Jerry Lewis Turned Down The Lead in 'Some Like It Hot'

During a conversation with Martin Scorsese at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York on Tuesday night, Lewis revealed that he was originally asked by director Billy Wilder to star in the 1959 classic Some Like It Hot. Wilder wanted Lewis — who’d split with Dean Martin several years earlier — to play the role of Jerry, an uptight jazz musician who winds up on the run from the mob. Lewis, however, balked at the prospect of dressing in drag for much of the film — despite the fact that it woul