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Some Like It Hot

Spaghetti and meatballs. Some Like It Hot, 1959, directed and co-written by Billy Wilder, starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon.

Babette's Feast

Chicken Parmesan. Babette's Feast, 1987, directed by Gabriel Axel, starring Stéphane Audran, Birgitte Federspiel, and Bodil Kjer.

Sullivan's Travels

Spaghetti and meatballs. Sullivan's Travels, 1941, written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake.

Night Moves and The Last Seduction and His Kind of Woman

Spaghetti and meatballs. Double feature: Night Moves, 1975, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark, Melanie Griffith and James Woods.   The Last Seduction, 1994, directed by John Dahl, starring Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg, and Bill Pullman.   Triple feature: His Kind of Woman, directed by John Farrow - or maybe Richard Fleischer, possibly Howard Hughes, starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price, Jim Backus and Raymond Burr. Price played one entire scene holding a raw duck. Raymond Burr played an Italian mobster. Howard Hughes insisted on rewrites which led to reshoots and extended production time past one year. Price threw a party on the one year anniversary. Mitchum was said to be so fed up that, during the penultimate fight scene, he really punched the stuntmen. They don't make pictures like that anymore.