Considering the time it was made, Some Like It Hot has got be one of the more risqué movies of its day. Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon play two hard luck musicians who are forced to cross-dress their way out of Prohibition Era Chicago in order to avoid getting “rubbed out” by the mob. The reason they have turned into transvestites is they cannot find work as men, but land a job in a women’s band traveling to Florida by rail. On the train they meet singer Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe).
Staying in drag, “Daphne” (Lemmon) garners the attention of a rather over zealous millionaire while “Josephine” (Curtis) attracts the affection of the bell boy. Joe (Curtis…again) steals some men’s clothes and glasses, because Sugar loves a man in glasses, and contrives a scheme to make Sugar fall for him. Our two cross-dressing comedians then formulate a plan to trick Daphne’s millionaire admirer out of his yacht while Joe leads Sugar into believing she’s finally scored the big money boyfriend of her dreams. All of these shenanigans quickly come to a screeching halt when the Chicago mob shows up (what a coincidence) at the same hotel the band is playing.
There’s plenty of laughs from Curtis and Lemmon and plenty of eye candy in Monroe. The movie also features Monroe’s classic “I wanna be loved by you”. And if all that wasn’t enough, the last 10 seconds of the movie delivers one of the biggest punch lines to ever come out of Hollywood.
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