During the forbidden drinking and partying on the train, "Josephine" and "Daphne" become close friends with Sugar, and struggle to remember that they are supposed to be girls and cannot make passes at her. She hopes to find a gentle, bespectacled millionaire in Florida. Sugar confides to "Josephine" that she has sworn off male saxophone players, who have taken advantage of her in the past. Joe and Jerry become obsessed with Sugar and compete for her affection while maintaining their disguises. On the train Joe and Jerry befriend Sugar Kane, the band's vocalist and ukulele player. Broke, terrified, and desperate to get out of town, Joe and Jerry disguise themselves as women named Josephine and Daphne so they can join Sweet Sue and her Society Syncopators, an all-female band headed (by train) to Miami. Spats and his gang see them as they flee. Joe and Jerry escape, but later accidentally witness Spats and his henchmen gunning down "Toothpick" and his gang in revenge (inspired by the real-life Saint Valentine's Day Massacre). Tipped off by informant "Toothpick" Charlie, the police raid the joint. They work in a speakeasy owned by gangster "Spats" Colombo. In February 1929, in Prohibition-era Chicago, Joe is a jazz saxophone player and an irresponsible, impulsive ladies' man his anxious friend Jerry is a jazz double bass player. The overwhelming success of Some Like It Hot is considered one of the reasons behind the replacement of the Hays Code.
The code had been gradually weakening in its scope since the early 1950s, due to greater social tolerance for taboo topics in film, but it was enforced until the mid-1960s. The film was produced without approval from the Motion Picture Production Code (Hays Code), because it features LGBT-related themes, including cross-dressing. In 1989, the Library of Congress selected it as one of the first 25 films for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The film received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Actor, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, winning for Best Costume Design. Some Like It Hot opened to critical and commercial success and is considered to be one of the greatest films of all time. The film is about two musicians who disguise themselves by dressing as women to escape from mafia gangsters whom they witnessed committing a crime. Diamond is based on a screenplay by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan from the 1935 French film Fanfare of Love.
Brown, Joan Shawlee, Grace Lee Whitney and Nehemiah Persoff in supporting roles. It stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, with George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E.
And once you're done here, head on over to the GH Book Club to check out even more feel-good reads.Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American romantic comedy film directed, produced and co-written by Billy Wilder. Add them all to your own tbr list or pick up a few as the perfect gift for the book-lover in your life. We've got something for fans of thrillers and crime, romance novels, humor, standby classics, new releases and of course, literary fiction and memoir. And just like the rest of the literary canon, LGBTQ+ books come in all genres. All of us deserve to see our lived experiences reflected in the stories we love, and that's especially important for young people or those who can't express the fullness of their identity in their everyday lives. These books by gay authors and LGBTQ+ writers, as well as fantastic reads with characters who identify as part of the rainbow of identities the acronym encompasses, show us that our literary worlds can (and should!) be as beautifully diverse as the one we live in. But this increased visibility during Pride month shouldn't be a one-month thing - it's an opportunity to expand the diversity of our media consumption all year long. For 30 days, every product from T-shirts to bagels come in a rainbow motif in a nod toward supporting (and earning money from) the LGBTQ+ community. During Pride month every June, a lot of attention turns to LGBTQ+ culture, including its artists, creators and authors.