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* WealthyYachtOwner: Joe seduces Sugar Kane by pretending to be a millionaire with a yacht anchored offshore. Fortunately, Osborne, a real millionaire, is in love with Daphne (really Joe's friend Jerry DisguisedInDrag), so while he takes Daphne for a night on the town, Joe sneaks Sugar into Osborne's yacht and pretends it's his.
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* FamousLastWords: "Big joke." [[spoiler: Spats, after being machine-gunned.]]
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* IfItsYouItsOkay: Everyone is flawed.
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* IfItsYouItsOkay: Everyone is flawed."Well, nobody's perfect."
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* LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub: The Friends of Italian Opera.
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* BreakUpMakeUpScenario: When Joe is forced to leave Sugar by the phone, she is so hertbroken heartbroken she gives up on love. He eventually reveals her the truth... by giving her the first "lesbian" kiss ever on screen!!
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* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder:
-->'''Sweet Sue:''' Here we are, all packed, ready to leave for Miami, and what happens? The saxophone runs off with a Bible salesman, and the bass fiddle gets herself pregnant! Beinstock, I ought to fire you!
-->'''Beinstock:''' Me? I'm the manager of the band, not the night watchman.
-->'''Sweet Sue:''' Here we are, all packed, ready to leave for Miami, and what happens? The saxophone runs off with a Bible salesman, and the bass fiddle gets herself pregnant! Beinstock, I ought to fire you!
-->'''Beinstock:''' Me? I'm the manager of the band, not the night watchman.
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* [[HenpeckedHusband Henpecked Subordinate]]: Beinstock to Sweet Sue.
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** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: However, he does feel genuine remorse for breaking Sugar's heart near the end.
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* AnythingThatMoves: Osgood, apparently. He's had multiple marriages, won't take no for an answer from "Daphne", and doesn't even seem to mind that she's really a man.
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* BiggerBad: Little Bonaparte.
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* SerialSpouse: Osgood.
-->'''Osgood:''' I've been married seven or eight times.
-->'''"Daphne":''' You're not sure?
-->'''Osgood:''' Mama is keeping score.
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-->'''Osgood:''' Mama is keeping score.
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* MeaningfulEcho: "You too, Spats. UP!"
** "Toothpick Charlie? Never heard of him!"
** "Toothpick Charlie? Never heard of him!"
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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Roughly half the dialogue:
** "If I were a girl...and I ''am''..."
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* ShoutOut: Joe's millionaire persona is an overt CaryGrant imitation; Curtis was a great admirer of Grant's work, and the two would appear together in ''OperationPetticoat'' later that same year.
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-->''"Nobody's perfect."''
''Some Like It Hot'' is an 1959 comedy film directed by Creator/BillyWilder.
The year is 1929 or thereabouts. Joe (TonyCurtis) and Jerry (JackLemmon) are [[TheWindyCity 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).
The lead singer of the band is called Sugar, and she is beautiful (MarilynMonroe!). 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 coup de grace? Joe and Jerry/Daphne eventually learn that the hotel is booked for a [[TheMafia friends of Italian opera]] convention...
''SomeLikeItHot'' was named the funniest movie of the 20th century on the American Film Institute's "100 Years... 100 Laughs" list.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AbortedArc: 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.
** [[ChekhovsGun Possibly a subtle set-up for when Joe steals Beinstock's glasses to use as part of his "millionaire" persona.]]
* AffectionateParody: What is the last (realistic) thing you'd expect in a gangster flick? Men in drag, of course.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Or at least Sugar does.
* BecomingTheMask: Jerry/Daphne, or at least it ''seems'' that way at one point.
* TheChanteuse: Sugar.
* ChaseScene
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Joe learns that Osgood proposed to Jerry (as Daphne):
-->'''Joe''': What are you talking about? You can't marry Osgood.\\
'''Jerry''': Why, you think he's too old for me?
* CoolBoat: Osgood's yacht is pretty snazzy.
* DifferentForGirls: Lampshaded as Jerry tries to figure out how to walk in heels, just as Sugar walks by them with a... ''memorable'' demonstration. Many years later, a movie reviewer asked Tony Curtis why his "Josephine" was so much more feminine than Jack Lemmon's "Daphne". A laughing Curtis explained that he was so scared to be playing a woman (or a man pretending to be one) that his tightly wound body language could be read as demure and shy, traditionally feminine traits, whereas Lemmon, who was completely unbothered, and "ran out of his dressing room screaming like the Queen of the May," kept much more of his masculine body language.
* DirtyOldMan: Osgood. Jerry even names him as such at one point.
* DisguisedInDrag
-->'''Sweet Sue''': Are you two from the Poliakoff Agency?\\
'''"Josephine"''': Yes, we're the new girls.\\
'''"Daphne"''': Brand new!
* DumbBlonde
* FanService: Just about every scene with Sugar.
* {{Gainaxing}}
** The scene where Sugar climbs into bed to rub 'Daphne's' feet in a skimpy nightie. No bra.
** Also, Sugar 'shakes' rather vigorously during and after 'Running Wild'.
* GenderBenderFriendship: Daphne and Josephine get pretty friendly with Sugar and the rest of the band.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The title alone should tell you everything.
* HeKnowsTooMuch
* HelloNurse: Guess.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Joe and Jerry
* HilarityEnsues
* HistoricalInJoke: Joe makes a flurry of them:
-->"Jerry, boy, why do you have to paint everything so black? Suppose you got hit by a truck? Suppose the stock market crashes? Suppose Mary Pickford divorces Douglas Fairbanks? Suppose the Dodgers leave Brooklyn? Suppose Lake Michigan overflows?"
** The last item didn't happen until 2008, making this even more HilariousInHindsight.
* HomoeroticSubtext: So very much, particulary for 1959. At one point Jerry-as-Daphne seems to be developing genuine romantic feelings for Osgood, much to Joe's consternation (and we later find out that [[spoiler: Osgood is completely unfazed by Jerry's real gender]]). Also, Sugar doesn't seem to initially mind getting a full-on mouth kiss from [[spoiler: Josephine]]. On a side note, Joe and Jerry are HeterosexualLifePartners, Joe is very insistant that they do everything together and that what's Jerry's is his and while Jerry vocally ojects, he goes along with it anyway and at one point, they hold hands.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Apparently, the Mafia can only hit targets that stand still. Some TruthInTelevision to that, as the Saint Valentine's Day massacre was a case of MoreDakka, and one victim ''still'' lived long enough to tell the police to fuck off.
* IfItsYouItsOkay: Everyone is flawed.
* ImpossiblyLowNeckline: Sugar's stage dresses. There's some transparent material holding it up to keep her from being NippleAndDimed, but the opaque material only covers a minimal amount.
* InformedAttribute: Sugar tells "Junior" that her band plays "real hot" jazz, but the Sweet Sue and Her Society Syncopaters numbers that we hear are all slow and not particularly jazzy.
* IronicEcho: When Jerry (Daphne) and Joe (Josephine) first get on the train and see all the other women, Jerry starts salivating over the prospect, and Joe has to tell him to keep telling himself, "I'm a girl." Later, after "Daphne" has accepted Osgood's proposal of marriage, Joe has to tell him again to keep telling himself, "I'm a boy."
-->"I'm a girl. I'm a girl. I wish I was dead. I'm a girl."
* ItWillNeverCatchOn: "Suppose the stock market crashes. Suppose Mary Pickford divorces Douglas Fairbanks. Suppose the Dodgers leave Brooklyn!"
* JumpingOutOfACake: A gunman hides in a cake near the climax and mows down the BigBad and his gang as retribution for the garage massacre witnessed by Joe and Jerry.
* LarynxDissonance
* TheMafia
* {{Meganekko}}: Sugar believes that men who wear glasses are more gentle and vulnerable. Joe takes full advantage of this by dressing up as a bespectacled millionaire, though he behaves more like a StoicSpectacles.
* MommasBoy: Osgood's mother gets the last word in who her son's allowed to marry.
* MsFanservice: Sugar. It's MarilynMonroe, the original Sex Goddess, at her finest.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Sugar isn't ''quite'' as dumb as she acts; neither is Osgood.
* OldFashionedRowboatDate: Spoofed, due to the twists already happening in the plot, like DisguisedInDrag.
* OrphanedPunchline: "So the one-legged jockey says, 'Don't worry about me, baby, I ride ''sidesaddle''!!' ", although the very beginning of the joke is told a few scenes before, when Josephine and Daphne are introduced to the band.
* PrettyInMink: Aside from the flapper era coats, Sugar wears a fox wrap for her date.
* RecursiveCrossdressing: Joe flip flops between being Joe, Josephine, and Junior so many times, it's a wonder he doesn't have split personalities by the end of the movie.
* RunningGag: Blood type O.
* SelectiveObliviousness: Daphne tries to talk Osgood out of his marriage proposal.
* {{Sexophone}}: Sugar's first appearance is accompanied by a sax solo. The character also has a thing for sax players.
* SexyBacklessOutfit: Sugar's gown for "I Wanna Be Loved By You".
* SexyWalk: Sugar. As Jerry comments: "Look how she moves. That's just like Jell-O on springs. She must have some sort of built-in motors."
* ShoutOut: Joe's millionaire persona is an overt CaryGrant imitation; Curtis was a great admirer of Grant's work, and the two would appear together in ''OperationPetticoat'' later that same year.
** Several to classic gangster movies:
*** At one point "Spats", played by George Raft, asks a {{mook}} who is playing with a coin "Where'd you pick up that cheap trick?". Raft had [[ActorAllusion created the iconic image of the coin-flipping crook]]; he played one in ''{{Scarface}}'' and in ''If I Had A Million'', both made in 1932.
*** Later "Spats" threatens another {{mook}} with a halved grapefruit, a ShoutOut to a famous scene in ''PublicEnemy'' (1931), where James Cagney mashes a grapefruit in Mae Clarke's face.
*** The leading mafia boss is nicknamed "Little Bonaparte", a nod to Edward G. Robinson's character from the gangster film ''LittleCaesar'' (1931).
* ShrugTake: the final scene.
* [[StageNames Stage Name]]: Sugar Kane used to be Sugar Kowalczyk.
* SweetOnPollyOliver: Inverted in a hilarious manner.
* TheRoaringTwenties.
* TitleDrop: Used when Joe, as his millionaire persona, discusses jazz music with Sugar.
* TwistEnding: Which is probably ItWasHisSled. If not, this entry has given away too much
* UnusualEuphemism: You didn't think the mafia convention ''called'' itself a mafia convention?
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: ''Very'' loosely based on the Valentine's Day Massacre... ''very''.
* WhamLine: "Nobody's perfect."
* WholesomeCrossdresser
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