In one sense, 1941’s Ball of Fire can be considered a comic forebear of Some Like It Hot: It involves homicidal mobsters, and witnesses who know too much who go to extraordinary lengths, and unusual hiding places, to avoid their deadly pursuers. In Some Like It Hot, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon played musicians who avoided their gangster posse by donning drag and going on tour with an all-women’s orchestra. In Ball of Fire, a nightclub singer an