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* 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.
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* [[HenpeckedHusband Henpecked Subordinate]]: To Sweet Sue.
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end. He even tells her that she deserves someone better than him.
*LadykillerInLoveLadykillerInLove: He used to be a a sleaze who wasn't above lying, stealing, and taking money (among other things) from girls before ditching them. Originally, he just wanted to get Sugar into bed, but he ended up genuinely falling for her.
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* StoicSpectacles: He feigns disintrest in Sugar as "Junior" at first [[ReversePsychology in order to make her more attracted to him]].
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* VillainousFashionSense: His nickname comes from the fact that he wears spats ''all'' the time.
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->'''Played By:''' Joan Shawlee
* CatchPhrase: "BIENSTOCK!!!"
* ControlFreak
* DeadpanSnarker
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->'''Played By:''' Joan Shawlee
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* TheDeterminator: Nobody witnesses one of his hits and lives to tell about it - even if they escape to Florida dressed as women.
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* SameLanguageDub: Tony Curtis struggled keeping a falsetto as Josephine, requiring Creator/PaulFrees to dub some of his dialogue.
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* HomoeroticSubtext: 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]]). 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.
** 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.
* DisguisedInDrag
* {{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.
* 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.
* 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.
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* DumbBlonde: She even shamelessly admits it to Joe/Josephine a few times.
** 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'.
** Also, Sugar 'shakes' rather vigorously during and after 'Running Wild'.
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* HomoeroticSubtext: Sugar doesn't seem to initially mind getting a full-on kiss from [[spoiler: Josephine]].
* 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.
* MsFanservice: It'sMarilyn.Creator/MarilynMonroe, the original Sex Goddess, at her finest.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Sugar isn't ''quite'' as dumb as she acts.
* {{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: As Jerry comments: "Look how she moves. That's just like Jell-O on springs. She must have some sort of built-in motors."
* 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.
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Sugar isn't ''quite'' as dumb as she acts.
* {{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: As Jerry comments: "Look how she moves. That's just like Jell-O on springs. She must have some sort of built-in motors."
* AnythingThatMoves: 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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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Osgood isn't ''quite'' as dumb as he acts.
* SerialSpouse: Osgood.
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-->'''Osgood:''' Mama is keeping score.
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->'''Played By:''' Tony Curtis
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* MsFanservice: It's Marilyn Monroe.
Marilyn.
*PunnyName: She was born Sugar Kowalczyk, StageName: It's a PunnyName, but uses a {{Stage Name|s}} that at least it doesn't sound as too Polish.
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* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: She claims that everyone in the band drinks, but she gets in trouble for it most often. When a flask falls out of her dress at the end of the "Runnin' Wild" number, it takes a fib from "Daphne" to keep her from getting kicked off the train.
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* BecomingTheMask: He's genuinely thrilled at the prospect of marrying a millionaire...even if said millionaire is the same gender as he is.
* ButtMonkey
* TheHero
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* JerkAss
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He genuinely feels bad for breaking Sugar's heart near the end.
* JerkassFascade: While in his "Shell Oil" persona, he at first pretends to be aloof and uninterested so Sugar wants him even more.
* LadykillerInLove
* TheLancer
* SkewedPriorities: When the Mafia shows up at the hotel, he's more interested in saying goodbye to Sugar (and giving her their only source of money, a diamond bracelet, as a going-away present) than in getting the hell out of Dodge before they get murdered.
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys
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* MsFanservice: It's Marilyn Monroe.
* PunnyName
!! Osgood Fielding
* AbhorrentAdmirer: To "Daphne" at first.
* DirtyOldMan
* LargeHam
* ManChild
* MommasBoy
* WealthyYachtOwner: "Shell Oil" even borrows his so that he can appear to be this to Sugar.
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* BigBad
* VillainousFashionSense: His nickname comes from the fact that he wears spats ''all'' the time.
* BecomingTheMask: He's genuinely thrilled at the prospect of marrying a millionaire...even if said millionaire is the same gender as he is.
* ButtMonkey
* TheHero
* HeterosexualLifePartners / ThoseTwoGuys: With Joe.
!! Joe/"Josephine"/"Shell Oil"
* JerkAss
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He genuinely feels bad for breaking Sugar's heart near the end.
* JerkassFascade: While in his "Shell Oil" persona, he at first pretends to be aloof and uninterested so Sugar wants him even more.
* LadykillerInLove
* TheLancer
* SkewedPriorities: When the Mafia shows up at the hotel, he's more interested in saying goodbye to Sugar (and giving her their only source of money, a diamond bracelet, as a going-away present) than in getting the hell out of Dodge before they get murdered.
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist
!! Sugar Kane
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys
*{{Gainaxing}}
* GoldDigger
* MsFanservice: It's Marilyn Monroe.
* PunnyName
!! Osgood Fielding
* AbhorrentAdmirer: To "Daphne" at first.
* DirtyOldMan
* LargeHam
* ManChild
* MommasBoy
* WealthyYachtOwner: "Shell Oil" even borrows his so that he can appear to be this to Sugar.
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* BigBad
* VillainousFashionSense: His nickname comes from the fact that he wears spats ''all'' the time.
