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* ChristmasCake: Sugar reveals she will turn 25 in June and is hoping to find a husband to marry soon.


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* OldMaid: Sugar reveals she will turn 25 in June and is hoping to find a husband to marry soon.
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* ValentinesDayViolence: The kickstarter for the plot for the film was when Joe and Jerry witnessing the Valentine's Day Massacre, and fearing for their lives, dressed up as women and joining an all-girls jazz band.
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Adapted as a stage {{musical}}, ''Sugar'', in 1972. This was revived 20 years later as ''Some Like It Hot: The Musical'', with Tony Curtis (this time playing Osgood) headlining the cast. Another musical adaptation premiered on Broadway in 2022, with Creator/AmberRuffin as both Sugar and a co-writer.

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Adapted as a stage {{musical}}, ''Sugar'', in 1972.1972, written by librettist Peter Stone and songwriters Julie Styne and Bob Merrill. This was revived 20 years later as ''Some Like It Hot: The Musical'', with Tony Curtis (this time playing Osgood) headlining the cast. Another musical adaptation premiered on Broadway in 2022, with written by librettists Creator/AmberRuffin as both Sugar and a co-writer.
Matthew Lopez and songwriters Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman.
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Adapted as a stage {{musical}}, ''Sugar'', in 1972. This was revived 20 years later as ''Some Like It Hot: The Musical'', with Tony Curtis (this time playing Osgood) headlining the cast.

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Adapted as a stage {{musical}}, ''Sugar'', in 1972. This was revived 20 years later as ''Some Like It Hot: The Musical'', with Tony Curtis (this time playing Osgood) headlining the cast.
cast. Another musical adaptation premiered on Broadway in 2022, with Creator/AmberRuffin as both Sugar and a co-writer.



* ScreenToStageAdaptation: The musical ''Sugar'', which opened on Broadway in 1972, and closed the following year.

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* ScreenToStageAdaptation: The musical musicals ''Sugar'', which ran on Broadway from 1972-73, and ''Some Like it Hot'', which opened on Broadway in 1972, and closed the following year.2022.

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


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* SupermodelStrut: Josephine and Daphne are having trouble strutting in their high-heels. Cue Sugar showing us how it's done properly.
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* TheEndingChangesEverything: As revealed in the iconic final line, Osgood is wholly unsurprised at Daphne's true sex, and he's fine with it.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Joe's millionaire persona is a Creator/CaryGrant impression.



* WitlessProtectionProgram: Variation: Jerry and Joe don't go to the police to get protection for their witnessing of the gangsters' massacre (and [[TheGreatDepression in that era]], [[DirtyCop who can blame them]]), but they nevertheless go on the run and even adopt fake identities (and pretend they are women). The gangsters still are able to figure out where they went with the untmost precision and arrive to the hotel in the final act with full intent [[LeaveNoWitnesses to silence them]].

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* WitlessProtectionProgram: Variation: Jerry and Joe don't go to the police to get protection for their witnessing of the gangsters' massacre (and [[TheGreatDepression in that era]], [[DirtyCop who can blame them]]), but they nevertheless go on the run and even adopt fake identities (and pretend they are women). The gangsters still are able to figure out where they went with the untmost utmost precision and arrive to the hotel in the final act with full intent [[LeaveNoWitnesses to silence them]].
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* GenderConcealingVoice: In order to escape the mobsters after them as part of an all-girls jazz band, Joe and Jerry pitch their voices up while in disguise as Josephine and Daphne.
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* {{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'.
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* WitlessProtectionProgram: Variation: Jerry and Joe don't go to the police to get protection for their witnessing of the gangsters' massacre (and [[UsefulNotes/TheGreatDepression in that era]], [[DirtyCop who can blame them]]), but they nevertheless go on the run and even adopt fake identities (and pretend they are women). The gangsters still are able to figure out where they went with the untmost precision and arrive to the hotel in the final act with full intent [[LeaveNoWitnesses to silence them]].

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* WitlessProtectionProgram: Variation: Jerry and Joe don't go to the police to get protection for their witnessing of the gangsters' massacre (and [[UsefulNotes/TheGreatDepression [[TheGreatDepression in that era]], [[DirtyCop who can blame them]]), but they nevertheless go on the run and even adopt fake identities (and pretend they are women). The gangsters still are able to figure out where they went with the untmost precision and arrive to the hotel in the final act with full intent [[LeaveNoWitnesses to silence them]].
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* WitlessProtectionProgram: Variation: Jerry and Joe don't go to the police to get protection for their witnessing of the gangsters' massacre (and [[UsefulNotes/TheGreatDepression in that era]], [[DirtyCop who can blame them]]), but they nevertheless go on the run and even adopt fake identities (and pretend they are women). The gangsters still are able to figure out where they went with the untmost precision and arrive to the hotel in the final act with full intent [[LeaveNoWitnesses to silence them]].
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* MoreExperiencedChasesTheInnocent: Feigned. Joe, in the guise of a millionaire, insists that he never felt any romantic or sexual desires after the death of his LostLenore, and Sugar, feeling herself as the more experienced one, decides to cure him with her kisses. In truth, however, Joe is as experienced as her.
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The lead singer of the band is called Sugar (Creator/MarilynMonroe), and she is beautiful. She also has a weakness for tenor saxophonists, which is why her current band is girls only (she thinks). Sugar takes the new "girls" into her confidence, and Joe and Jerry both need reminding that they're incognito and not looking for trouble.

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The lead singer of the band is called Sugar (Creator/MarilynMonroe), and she is beautiful.gorgeous. She also has a weakness for tenor saxophonists, which is why her current band is girls only (she thinks). Sugar takes the new "girls" into her confidence, and Joe and Jerry both need reminding that they're incognito and not looking for trouble.
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*** 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 Creator/MaeClarke's face.

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*** Later "Spats" threatens another {{mook}} with a halved grapefruit, a ShoutOut to a famous scene in ''Film/ThePublicEnemy'' (1931), ''Film/ThePublicEnemy1931'', where Creator/JamesCagney mashes a grapefruit in Creator/MaeClarke's face.
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The lead singer of the band is called Sugar, and she is beautiful (Creator/MarilynMonroe!). She also has a weakness for tenor saxophonists, which is why her current band is girls only (she thinks). Sugar takes the new "girls" into her confidence, and Joe and Jerry both need reminding that they're incognito and not looking for trouble.

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The lead singer of the band is called Sugar, Sugar (Creator/MarilynMonroe), and she is beautiful (Creator/MarilynMonroe!).beautiful. She also has a weakness for tenor saxophonists, which is why her current band is girls only (she thinks). Sugar takes the new "girls" into her confidence, and Joe and Jerry both need reminding that they're incognito and not looking for trouble.

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* GoldDigger: Subverted and parodied. Sugar claims to ''want'' to marry a rich beau instead of the bums she's been chasing her whole life, but what she really needs more than anything is [[FoolForLove to be loved and cared for in return]]. Jerry, meanwhile, seems to actually become enamored with Osgood for his bank account (or at least ''chiefly'' for his bank account), and in one scene even lays out -- from a very feminine perspective -- how he's going to let him down gently.
-->'''Jerry:''' Osgood proposed to me! We're planning a June wedding.\\
''[He begins to gleefully rumba with the maracas]''\\
'''Joe:''' What are you talking about?! You can't marry Osgood!\\
'''Jerry:''' ''[with genuine concern]'' ...You think he's too old for me?\\
'''Joe:''' Jerry, you CAN'T be serious!\\
'''Jerry:''' Why not? He keeps marryin' girls all the ''time!''\\
''[He starts rumbaing again]''\\
'''Joe:''' But... but you're not a girl, you're a guy, an' why would a guy want to marry a guy?!\\
'''Jerry:''' Security!\\
[...]\\
'''Joe:''' Jerry, you're out of your MIND! How are you gonna get AWAY with this?\\
'''Jerry:''' I don't expect it to ''last'', Joe! I'll tell him the truth when the time comes.\\
'''Joe:''' Like when?\\
'''Jerry:''' Like ''right'' after the ceremony!\\
'''Joe:''' Oh...\\
'''Jerry:''' Then, we get a quick annulment, he makes a nice settlement on me -- and ''I'' keep gettin' those alimony checks evvv'rrry ''month!''\\
''[He leaps and dances in excitement; Joe tries to calm him down]''\\
'''Joe:''' J-Jerry... Jerry, Jerry, LISTEN to me. Listen to me! There are laws -- conventions. It's just not being DONE!\\
'''Jerry:''' ''[petulantly shushes him]'' Joe! This may be my ''last chance'' to marry a millionaire!
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* GoldDigger: Subverted and parodied. Sugar claims to ''want'' to marry a rich beau instead of the bums she's been chasing her whole life, but what she really needs more than anything is [[FoolForLove to be loved and cared for in return]]. Jerry, meanwhile, seems to actually become enamored with Osgood for his bank account (or at least ''chiefly'' for his bank account), and in one scene even lays out -- from a very feminine perspective -- how he's going to let him down gently.
-->'''Jerry:''' Osgood proposed to me! We're planning a June wedding.\\
''[He begins to gleefully rumba with the maracas]''\\
'''Joe:''' What are you talking about?! You can't marry Osgood!\\
'''Jerry:''' ''[with genuine concern]'' ...You think he's too old for me?\\
'''Joe:''' Jerry, you CAN'T be serious!\\
'''Jerry:''' Why not? He keeps marryin' girls all the ''time!''\\
''[He starts rumbaing again]''\\
'''Joe:''' But... but you're not a girl, you're a guy, an' why would a guy want to marry a guy?!\\
'''Jerry:''' Security!\\
[...]\\
'''Joe:''' Jerry, you're out of your MIND! How are you gonna get AWAY with this?\\
'''Jerry:''' I don't expect it to ''last'', Joe! I'll tell him the truth when the time comes.\\
'''Joe:''' Like when?\\
'''Jerry:''' Like ''right'' after the ceremony!\\
'''Joe:''' Oh...\\
'''Jerry:''' Then, we get a quick annulment, he makes a nice settlement on me -- and ''I'' keep gettin' those alimony checks evvv'rrry ''month!''\\
''[He leaps and dances in excitement; Joe tries to calm him down]''\\
'''Joe:''' J-Jerry... Jerry, Jerry, LISTEN to me. Listen to me! There are laws -- conventions. It's just not being DONE!\\
'''Jerry:''' ''[petulantly shushes him]'' Joe! This may be my ''last chance'' to marry a millionaire!

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* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: "Little Bonaparte", with his bald head, scowl, and histrionic hand gestures, resembles Benito Mussolini, complete with a couple of HitlerCam shots that make the banquet table before him look like a balcony.
* NoSparks: Joe pretends that all his previous dates didn't elicit any feelings in him. It makes Sugar try even harder [[ICanChangeMyBeloved in her pursuit to sway his opinion on her]].



* NoSparks: Joe pretends that all his previous dates didn't elicit any feelings in him. It makes Sugar try even harder [[ICanChangeMyBeloved in her pursuit to sway his opinion on her]].
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* ACupAngst: Inverted, as per the 1920s setting, when Sugar says that she's jealous of "Daphne" for being so flat-chested.

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* ACupAngst: Inverted, Played with; as per the 1920s setting, when Sugar says that she's jealous of "Daphne" for being so flat-chested.flat-chested because clothes hang better on her. She means it as a compliment, but the bemused look on Jerry's face suggests he's a little insulted on Daphne's behalf.
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* GilliganCut: Joe promises Jerry that investing their overcoats with Sam the bookie to bet on a greyhound is a sure thing, and since it pays 10 to 1, they'll have ''twenty'' coats after the race. Cue them staggering down the street to the unemployment offices in freezing wind.

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* HistoricalInJoke: Joe makes a flurry of them, dismissing Jerry as an alarmist with [[ItWillNeverCatchOn hypotheticals that'll never happen]]:
-->'''Joe:''' Look at the odds, he's ten-to-one! Tomorrow we'll pay everybody!\\
'''Jerry:''' Suppose he loses?!\\
'''Joe:''' What're you worried about? This job is going to last a long time![[note]]December 5, 1933 would've put an end to their speakeasy gig regardless of bad luck.[[/note]]\\
'''Jerry:''' Suppose it doesn't?\\
'''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 Creator/MaryPickford divorces Creator/DouglasFairbanks? Suppose the Dodgers leave Brooklyn? Suppose Lake Michigan overflows?[[note]]To wit: October 29, 1929; January 10, 1936; September 1957, fairly recent at the time of the film; March 14, 1929, only a ''month'' afterward.[[/note]]



** "Suppose the stock market crashes. Suppose Creator/MaryPickford divorces Creator/DouglasFairbanks. Suppose the Dodgers leave Brooklyn!"

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** "Suppose Joe makes a flurry of {{Historical In Joke}}s at the beginning, dismissing Jerry as an alarmist with hypotheticals that'll never happen:
--->'''Joe:''' Look at the odds, he's ten-to-one! Tomorrow we'll pay everybody!\\
'''Jerry:''' Suppose he loses?!\\
'''Joe:''' What're you worried about? This job is going to last a long time![[note]]December 5, 1933 would've put an end to their speakeasy gig regardless of bad luck.[[/note]]\\
'''Jerry:''' Suppose it doesn't?\\
'''Joe:''' ...Jerry, boy, why do you have to paint everything so black? Suppose you got hit by a truck? Suppose
the stock market crashes. crashes? Suppose Creator/MaryPickford divorces Creator/DouglasFairbanks. Creator/DouglasFairbanks? Suppose the Dodgers leave Brooklyn!"Brooklyn? Suppose Lake Michigan overflows?[[note]]To wit: October 29, 1929; January 10, 1936; September 1957, fairly recent at the time of the film; March 14, 1929, only a ''month'' afterward.[[/note]]
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''Joe:''' What're you worried about? This job is going to last a long time![[note]]December 5, 1933 would've put an end to their speakeasy gig regardless of bad luck.[[/note]]\\

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''Joe:''' '''Joe:''' What're you worried about? This job is going to last a long time![[note]]December 5, 1933 would've put an end to their speakeasy gig regardless of bad luck.[[/note]]\\
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'''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 Creator/MaryPickford divorces Creator/DouglasFairbanks? Suppose the Dodgers leave Brooklyn? Suppose Lake Michigan overflows?[[note]]To wit: October 29, 1929; January 10, 1936; September 1957, fairly recent at the time of the film; March 14, 1929, only a ''month'' afterward.[[note]]

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'''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 Creator/MaryPickford divorces Creator/DouglasFairbanks? Suppose the Dodgers leave Brooklyn? Suppose Lake Michigan overflows?[[note]]To wit: October 29, 1929; January 10, 1936; September 1957, fairly recent at the time of the film; March 14, 1929, only a ''month'' afterward.[[note]][[/note]]

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* HistoricalInJoke: Joe makes a flurry of them:
-->'''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 Creator/MaryPickford divorces Creator/DouglasFairbanks? Suppose the Dodgers leave Brooklyn? Suppose Lake Michigan overflows?

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* HistoricalInJoke: Joe makes a flurry of them:
them, dismissing Jerry as an alarmist with [[ItWillNeverCatchOn hypotheticals that'll never happen]]:
-->'''Joe:''' Look at the odds, he's ten-to-one! Tomorrow we'll pay everybody!\\
'''Jerry:''' Suppose he loses?!\\
''Joe:''' What're you worried about? This job is going to last a long time![[note]]December 5, 1933 would've put an end to their speakeasy gig regardless of bad luck.[[/note]]\\
'''Jerry:''' Suppose it doesn't?\\
'''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 Creator/MaryPickford divorces Creator/DouglasFairbanks? Suppose the Dodgers leave Brooklyn? Suppose Lake Michigan overflows?overflows?[[note]]To wit: October 29, 1929; January 10, 1936; September 1957, fairly recent at the time of the film; March 14, 1929, only a ''month'' afterward.[[note]]
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Joe wants to keep up their guise as women after they get to Florida despite promising Jerry otherwise earlier. He justifies this by pointing out out that the Mafia can easily find them in a male band.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Osgood pursues Jerry as "Daphne" through the whole film and the only really attractive part of him is the fact he's rich (looks like a toad, MamasBoy, etc). The final gag is Jerry desperately tossing a HurricaneOfExcuses to get Osgood off his back after he says he wants to marry "Daphne", only for Osgood to nonchalantly disregard all of them (even the fact Jerry is a man).
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Osgood pursues Jerry as "Daphne" through the whole film and the only really attractive part of him is the fact he's rich (looks like a toad, MamasBoy, etc). The final gag is Jerry desperately tossing a HurricaneOfExcuses to get Osgood off his back after he says he wants to marry "Daphne", only for Osgood to nonchalantly disregard all of them (even the fact Jerry is a man).

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* DidISayThatOutLoud: When Jerry/"Daphne" pulls the emergency brake, Joe/"Josephine" and Daphne crash together causing him to say "search me!" before correcting himself.


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* FreudianSlip: When Jerry/"Daphne" pulls the emergency brake, Joe/"Josephine" and Daphne crash together causing him to say "search me!" before correcting himself.
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* DidISayThatOutLoud: When Jerry/"Daphne" pulls the emergency brake, Joe/"Josephine" and Daphne crash together causing him to say "search me!" before correcting himself.


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* SomethingElseAlsoRises: When Sugar crawls into bed to lay beside Jerry/"Daphne", he is obviously trying to hide his discomfort from her.
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A classic 1959 comedy film directed by Creator/BillyWilder, who also wrote the screenplay along with frequent collaborator I. A. L. Diamond.

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A classic ''Some Like It Hot'' is a 1959 comedy film directed by Creator/BillyWilder, who also wrote the screenplay along with frequent collaborator I. A. L. Diamond.

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