History Film / SomeLikeItHot

'''Osgood:''' [[spoiler:''[completely unperturbed and still very much in love]'' Well, nobody's perfect. ''[Jerry is flabbergasted]'']]

* TwistEnding: Which is probably ItWasHisSled. If not, this entry has given away too much

* IfItsYouItsOkay: "Well, nobody's perfect."

*** Later "Spats" threatens another {{mook}} with a halved grapefruit, a ShoutOut to a famous scene in ''Film/ThePublicEnemy'' (1931), where Creator/JamesCagney mashes a grapefruit in Mae Clarke's face.

UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}, [[TheRoaringTwenties 1929]]: Joe (Creator/TonyCurtis) and Jerry (Creator/JackLemmon) are down-on-their-luck jazz musicians who become accidental 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.

** 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 ''Film/OperationPetticoat'' later that same year.

*** A bit of a mistake - Cary Grant's accent, due to his mixed British/American upbringing, was a "natural" version of the affected [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent Mid-Atlantic accent]] that was popular in the US up until WWII. Though the height of it's popularity was in the 30's and 40's, it was not uncommon in 1929 and earlier, and no one at that time would have found it unusual.

* FanService: Just about every scene with Sugar.

* SobriquetSexSwitch: Played straight with Joe as Josephine. Averted by Jerry, who rejects Joe's suggestion of Geraldine and goes by Daphne instead.

[[TheWindyCity Chicago]], [[TheRoaringTwenties 1929]]: Joe (Creator/TonyCurtis) and Jerry (Creator/JackLemmon) are down-on-their-luck jazz musicians who become accidental 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.

* 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.]]

* CoolBoat: Osgood's yacht is pretty snazzy.
** His speedboat is no slouch either. Something like that from the late-1920s would have been powered by a liquid-cooled V-12 ''aircraft engine''.

* HistoricalInJoke: Joe makes a flurry of them:

** The last item didn't happen until 2008, making this even more HilariousInHindsight.
* HollywoodDarkness: The scenes when Sugar is running out to meet Joe after the concert are full of shadows and a bright sky...at one o'clock in the morning.
** In fairness, there ''was'' a full moon.
* HomoeroticSubtext: So very much, particularly 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 kiss from [[spoiler: Josephine]]. On a side note, Joe and Jerry are HeterosexualLifePartners, Joe is very insistent that they do everything together and that what's Jerry's is his and while Jerry vocally objects, he goes along with it anyway.
** Though the last case may be more akin to them being like brothers, with Jerry being the little brother who gets bullied into doing things he doesn't want to.

'''Bellhop :''' Here I am, doll.
* InLoveWithLove: Osgood's world-view, which is why he falls hard for "Daphne" even AFTER TheReveal

* ItWillNeverCatchOn: "Suppose the stock market crashes. Suppose Mary Pickford divorces Douglas Fairbanks. Suppose the Dodgers leave Brooklyn!"

* TheMafia:
* MeaningfulEcho: "You too, Spats. UP!"

* 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 ''Film/OperationPetticoat'' later that same year.

** "If I were a girl...and I ''am''..."

* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: While Jerry is a bumbling but well-meaning character, Joe comes across as a total sleazebag who is not above lying, theft and even cruelty to children just to get into Sugar's pants.

* VillainousFashionSense: Chicago mob boss Spats is so nicknamed because he always wears them.
* WealthyYachtOwner: Joe seduces Sugar Kane by pretending to be a millionaire with a yacht anchored offshore. Fortunately Osgood, a real millionaire, is in love with Daphne (really 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.
* WholesomeCrossdresser

* SerialSpouse: Osgood.
-->'''Osgood:''' I've been married seven or eight times.
-->'''"Daphne":''' You're not sure?
-->'''Osgood:''' Mama is keeping score.

* HelloNurse: Guess.
* HilarityEnsues

* TheGlassesComeOff: Justified. Joe has to take off his glasses when he is with Sugar on the yacht as the glasses start to fog up.

* 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.

* OldFashionedRowboatDate: Spoofed, due to the twists already happening in the plot, like DisguisedInDrag.

* UnusualEuphemism: You didn't think the mafia convention ''called'' itself a mafia convention?

*** The coin-flipping crook is played by Edward G. Robinson Jr., as tall and handsome as his father was short and odd-looking.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: The young bellhop to "Josephine" and Osgood to "Daphne"...at first.

* ButtMonkey: Jerry
* TheChanteuse: Sugar.

* DirtyOldMan: Osgood. Jerry even names him as such at one point.

* GoldDigger: Sugar wants to marry a millionaire. "Daphne" turns into this as well.

* [[HenpeckedHusband Henpecked Subordinate]]: Beinstock to Sweet Sue.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Joe and Jerry.

* {{Jerkass}}: Joe has his moments.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: However, he does feel genuine remorse for breaking Sugar's heart near the end. He also tells her that she deserves someone better than him.

* ManChild: Osgood.

* {{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. Considering his age, it's a wonder she's even still alive.
* MsFanservice: Sugar. It's MarilynMonroe, the original Sex Goddess, at her finest.

* LarynxDissonance

* TheMafia

* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Sugar (blonde), "Josephine" (brunette), and "Daphne", who the production shots show to be redhead.

* ChaseScene

* HeKnowsTooMuch

** Jerry's reaction to Joe's millionaire voice ("And where did you get that phony accent from? Nobody talks like that!"). It's actually Tony Curtis doing a Cary Grant impression.

-->--'''Osgood Fielding III'''

[[TheWindyCity Chicago]], [[TheRoaringTwenties 1929]]: Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Creator/JackLemmon) are down-on-their-luck jazz musicians who become accidental 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.