History Film / SomeLikeItHot

*** 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 ''Film/{{Scarface 1932}}'' and in ''If I Had A Million'', both made in 1932.

The year is 1929 or thereabouts. Joe (Creator/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 [[LeaveNoWitnesses something the mob will kill people over]], and Joe and Jerry have been spotted, so they need to get out of Chicago fast.

* JerkAss: Joe has his moments.

* NotTheirBirthday: Played as deep black comedy in the surprise birthday celebration for Spats Colombo at the convention of the Friends of Italian Opera.

-->"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 year is 1929 or thereabouts. Joe (Creator/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 Jerry have been spotted, so they need to get out of Chicago fast.

** Literally in the case of Joe's line "Something tells me the omelette is about to hit the fan."

* 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.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Literally in the case of Joe's line "Something tells me the omelette is about to hit the fan."

The year is 1929 or thereabouts. Joe (Creator/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.

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.

* 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.

-->''"Well, nobody's perfect."''

*** 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 ''ThePublicEnemy'' (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).

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: It's a movie about two guys joining an all-girls jazz band by dressing in drag. Enough said.
** Literally in the case of Joe's line "Something tells me the omelette is about to hit the fan."

''SomeLikeItHot'' was named the funniest movie of the 20th century on the American Film Institute's "100 Years... 100 Laughs" list. It also broke their "100 Years...100 Films" list (#14 in 1998, #21 in 2007).

* MilhollandRelationshipMoment: In the final scene, when Jerry finally [[InternalReveal reveals]] his flaws and true sex to Osgood and latter doesn't seem to care.

* ShrugTake: the final scene.