History Film / SomeLikeItHot

* {{Sexophone}}: Sugar has a thing for sax players.

* SexyWalk: Josephine and Daphne are having trouble walking in their high-heels. Cue Marilyn showing us how it's done properly.

-->'''Joe:''' 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 Creator/DouglasFairbanks? Suppose the Dodgers leave Brooklyn? Suppose Lake Michigan overflows?

* BigBad: Spats Columbo is the Chicago mafia boss responsible for gunning down a rival gang and hunting down Joe and Jerry as witnesses, forcing them to go undercover [[DisguisedInDrag as women]]. [[spoiler:[[DiscOneFinalBoss At least until]] he is killed by [[TheManBehindTheMan his boss]], Little Bonaparte, who takes over as main villain for the last part of the film.]]

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

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Sugar has some high demands in her potential partners... and then a mundane one.

* NotTheirBirthday: Spats starts to become suspicious when the Friends of Italian Opera throw him a birthday party four months before his actual birthday. [[spoiler:For good reason, as there's a gunman hiding in the cake]].

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** It's a movie about two guys dressed in drag and falling in love with Marilyn Monroe. There's bound to be plenty of this.
** Literally in the case of Joe's line [[ThisIsGonnaSuck "Something tells me the omelette is about to hit the fan."]]

* 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. The makers of the movie had planned to [[WhatCouldHaveBeen take it even further]] before the censors intervened, Osgood's legendary final line ("Well, nobody's perfect") was originally written as "[[HoYay I know]]".

* AttractiveBentGender: Osgood falling for "Daphne".

* SweetOnPollyOliver: Inverted in a hilarious manner with Osgood falling for "Daphne".

* DumbBlonde: Sugar is either a FoolForLove, this, or a bit of both (though AlcoholInducedStupidity may also [[TheAlcoholic be a factor]]).

* 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."

* [[StageNames Stage Name]]: Sugar Kane used to be Sugar Kowalczyk.

'''Osgood:''' I forgive you.\\

%%* HypocriticalHumor: Lots of it.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:

* DisguisedInDrag:

* FamousLastWords: "Big joke." [[spoiler: Spats, after being machine-gunned.]]

-->"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 Creator/DouglasFairbanks? Suppose the Dodgers leave Brooklyn? Suppose Lake Michigan overflows?"
* 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. The makers of the movie had planned to [[WhatCouldHaveBeen take it even further]] before the censors intervened, Osgood's legendary final line ("Well, nobody's perfect") was originally written as "[[HoYay I know]]".

* HypocriticalHumor: Lots of it.
* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder:

''(cue the door springing open)''\\

-->"I'm a girl. I'm a girl. ''I wish I was dead.'' I'm a girl."

-->'''Jerry:''' ''(seeing Spats and his gang in the hotel lobby)'' Joe... something tells me the omelette is about to hit the fan.

The lead singer of the band is called Sugar, and she is beautiful (Creator/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.

* WhamLine: "Well, nobody's perfect." Cue flabbergasted look from Joe.

* {{Sexophone}}: Sugar's first appearance is accompanied by a sax solo. The character also has a thing for sax players.

* SweetOnPollyOliver: Inverted in a hilarious manner with Osgood falling for "Josephine".

* 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.

* HasTwoMommies: The second-to-last reason the movie shows Daphne giving Osgood for trying to turn down his marriage proposal concerns Daphne's inability to have children. Osgood reminds Daphne that they could adopt some.

* GoldDigger:
** Joe plans to marry Osgood and reveal his true identity immediately after in order to get alimony payments.
** Sugar, though this is played with; she only wants to marry a millionaire because she's sick of being used by sleazy men, rather than out of pure greed.

%%* AbhorrentAdmirer: see the movie's character sheet

-->'''Sugar''': I don't care how rich he is, as long as he has a yacht, his own private railroad car, and [[BrickJoke his own toothpaste]].

* ChekhovsGun: The emergency brake.

-->'''Joe''': What are you talking about? You can't marry Osgood.\\
'''Jerry''': Why, you think he's too old for me?

* DisguisedInDrag
-->'''Sweet Sue''': Are you two from the Poliakoff Agency?\\
'''"Josephine"''': Yes, we're the new girls.\\
'''"Daphne"''': Brand new!

* {{Gainaxing}}

* GreaterScopeVillain: Little Bonaparte.

%%* HelloNurse: Guess.
%%* HilarityEnsues
* HistoricalInJoke: Joe makes a flurry of them (the last item didn't happen until 2008, making this even more HilariousInHindsight):

-->'''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.

-->'''Sugar''': Well, Daphne has a beau, I have a beau... if we could only find somebody for you [Josephine].\\

** 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 Creator/CaryGrant impression.
*** 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 its 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.

* LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub: The Friends of Italian Opera.

* TheMafia

* MistakenForGay: Sweet Sue witnesses what appears to be LesYay when "Josephine" kisses Sugar onstage.

%%* OldFashionedRowboatDate: Spoofed, due to the twists already happening in the plot, like DisguisedInDrag. - ZCE, when does this happen?

* PunnyName: Sugar Kane.

* TheRoaringTwenties

-->"If I were a girl...and I ''am''..."
* SweetOnPollyOliver: Inverted in a hilarious manner.

-->'''Joe:''' "Syncopators" -- does that mean you play that fast music? Jazz?
-->'''Sugar:''' Yeah. Real hot!
-->'''Joe:''' Oh. Well, I guess some like it hot. But I prefer classical music.
* TwistEnding / WhamLine: "Well, nobody's perfect."

* YouCantMakeAnOmelette: Joe says this at one point, when Jerry expresses qualms about their deceptions.
-->'''Jerry:''' (seeing Spats and his gang in the hotel lobby) Joe... something tells me the omelette is about to hit the fan.