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'''Some Like It Hot''' is a 1959 comedy film directed by [[Billy Wilder]].
'''''Some Like It Hot''''' is a 1959 comedy film directed by [[Billy Wilder]].


The year is 1929 or thereabouts. Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) are [[The Windy City|Chicago]] jazz musicians who become witnesses to the Valentine's Day Massacre. Unfortunately, being known to be a witness to a massacre is something the mob will kill people over, and Joe and Gerald have been spotted, so they need to get out of Chicago fast.
The year is 1929 or thereabouts. Joe ([[Tony Curtis]]) and Jerry ([[Jack Lemmon]]) are [[The Windy City|Chicago]] jazz musicians who become witnesses to the Valentine's Day Massacre. Unfortunately, being known to be a witness to a massacre is something the mob will kill people over, and Joe and Gerald have been spotted, so they need to get out of Chicago fast.


It so happens that an all-girl band which is leaving town has openings for a bass player and a tenor saxophonist. This does mean that Joe and Gerald will have to pretend to be women, but they consider this better than dying. They introduce themselves as Josephine and Daphne (Jerry prefers that to Geraldine).
It so happens that an all-girl band which is leaving town has openings for a bass player and a tenor saxophonist. This does mean that Joe and Gerald will have to pretend to be women, but they consider this better than dying. They introduce themselves as Josephine and Daphne (Jerry prefers that to Geraldine).
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The lead singer of the band is called Sugar, and she is beautiful ([[Marilyn Monroe]]!). She has a weakness for tenor saxophonists, which is why her current band is girls only (she thinks). She is attractive to the men, and they both have to remember that they're supposed to be girls.
The lead singer of the band is called Sugar, and she is beautiful ([[Marilyn Monroe]]!). She has a weakness for tenor saxophonists, which is why her current band is girls only (she thinks). She is attractive to the men, and they both have to remember that they're supposed to be girls.


The train ends up in [[Miami]], where the band has a gig in a hotel. Sugar expresses the desire to be romanced by a millionaire, and Joe decides to take up another ID as a (male) millionaire to court her. Meanwhile, ''real'' millionaire Osgood Fielding III (Joe E. Brown) is courting Daphne, and Daphne is starting to like it for more than the presents... which is unfortunate, since he's still a guy biologically.
The train ends up in [[Miami]], where the band has a gig in a hotel. Sugar expresses the desire to be romanced by a millionaire, and Joe decides to take up another ID as a (male) millionaire to court her. Meanwhile, ''real'' millionaire Osgood Fielding III ([[Joe E. Brown]]) is courting Daphne, and Daphne is starting to like it for more than the presents... which is unfortunate, since he's still a guy biologically.


The coup de grace? Joe and Jerry/Daphne eventually learn that the hotel is booked for a [[The Mafia|friends of Italian opera]] convention...
The coup de grace? Joe and Jerry/Daphne eventually learn that the hotel is booked for a [[The Mafia|friends of Italian opera]] convention...


''[[Some Like It Hot]]'' was named the funniest movie of the 20th century on the American Film Institute's "100 Years... 100 Laughs" list.
''[[Some Like It Hot]]'' was named the funniest movie of the 20th century on the American Film Institute's "100 Years... 100 Laughs" list.

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* [[Aborted Arc]]: At the beginning of the train trip, Sweet Sue tells Beinstock that she thinks there's "something funny about those new girls" and he tells her he'll keep an eye on them. Nothing further ever comes of this.
* [[Aborted Arc]]: At the beginning of the train trip, Sweet Sue tells Beinstock that she thinks there's "something funny about those new girls" and he tells her he'll keep an eye on them. Nothing further ever comes of this.
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