Director: Billy Wilder
Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon
When musicians Joe (Curtis) and Jerry (Lemmon) become witnesses to a mob hit in Chicago, they hit the road, and run for their lives. They come up with a brilliant scheme- to hide in plain sight as female musicians in an all-girls band!
On a train to Florida they meet their fellow musicians, one of whom is Sugar (Monroe), and both guys fall for her and befriend her as their female roles, "Josephine" and "Daphne" (he didn't like "Geraldine"). Arriving in Florida, the girls are put in a hotel, where they will be performing every night with the band. But their afternoons are for flirting with the old millionaires at the hotel! Sugar meets a handsome millionaire the first day, but she doesn't know it's actually Joe!
If that weren't enough to make this extremely entertaining, by some crazy coincidence there seems to be special mob conference at the hotel, and who should show up--- yes, you guessed it!--- the mob boss from Chicago, who is also still searching for the only two witnesses who can put him in prison.
I especially love Jack Lemmon in this film. I think he's brilliant in everything, really! When he gets engaged to his own millionaire, you'll die laughing! (Ok, hopefully not really.) And Tony Curtis, pretending to be a millionaire to impress Sugar, does his own Cary Grant impersonation, which is spot on and wonderful!
Not what I was expecting from having heard about this movie forever, and knowing it is a classic comedy, but definitely worth watching!
