Once in Miami, Joe woos Sugar by assuming a second disguise as millionaire Junior, the heir to Shell Oil, while feigning indifference to her. During the forbidden drinking and partying on the train, "Josephine" and "Daphne" become close friends with Sugar, and struggle to remember that they are supposed to be girls and cannot make passes at her. She hopes to find a gentle, bespectacled millionaire in Florida. Sugar confides to "Josephine" that she has sworn off male saxophone players, who have taken advantage of her in the past. Joe and Jerry become obsessed with Sugar and compete for her affection while maintaining their disguises. On the train Joe and Jerry befriend Sugar Kane, the band's vocalist and ukulele player. Broke, terrified, and desperate to get out of town, Joe and Jerry disguise themselves as women named Josephine and Daphne so they can join Sweet Sue and her Society Syncopators, an all-female band headed (by train) to Miami. Spats and his gang see them as they flee. Joe and Jerry escape, but later accidentally witness Spats and his henchmen gunning down "Toothpick" and his gang in revenge (inspired by the real-life Saint Valentine's Day Massacre Tipped off by informant "Toothpick" Charlie, the police raid the joint. They work in a speakeasy owned by gangster "Spats" Colombo. In February 1929, in Prohibition-era Chicago, Joe is a jazz saxophone player and an irresponsible, impulsive ladies' man his anxious friend Jerry is a jazz double bass player. The overwhelming success of Some Like It Hot is considered one of the reasons behind the replacement of the Hays Code. The code had been gradually weakening in its scope since the early 1950s, due to greater social tolerance for taboo topics in film, but it was enforced until the mid-1960s.
The film was produced without approval from the Motion Picture Production Code (Hays Code), because it features LGBT-related themes, including cross-dressing. In 1989, the Library of Congress selected it as one of the first 25 films for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The film received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Actor, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, winning for Best Costume Design.
Some Like It Hot opened to critical and commercial success and is considered to be one of the greatest films of all time. The film is about two musicians who disguise themselves by dressing as women to escape from mafia gangsters whom they witnessed committing a crime. Diamond is based on a screenplay by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan from the 1935 French film Fanfare of Love.
Brown, Joan Shawlee, Grace Lee Whitney and Nehemiah Persoff in supporting roles. It stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, with George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E.
Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American crime comedy film directed, produced and co-written by Billy Wilder.
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