Monroe, Lemmon, and Tony Curtis! What more could you ask for?

Rating: 10/10 (21 February 2006)

I haven't seen this film until this past weekend. I know it has been highly rated as an all time classic comedy and I can see why. I love Tony CUrtis and Jack Lemmon as two male band players forced to dress up as women in order to get out of CHicago after the Valentine's Day massacre in 1929. Tony Curtis deserves a lot of credit for playing the male suitor to Marilyn Monroe's Sugar. Even though Jack Lemmon is hysterical as Daphne, you can't forget how giddy and happy he is when he finds love with a male suitor played wonderfully by Joe E. Brown. I forget who plays the female conductor but she's also wonderful in the film. It's sad that Marilyn Monroe died so young only three years after making this wonderful classic film. She and Tony Curtis appear made for each other in this film. Jack Lemmon was well deserved of his Oscar nomination but I can't imagine why they left out Tony Curtis. Billy Wilder chose wisely to film it in black and white. I love the train ride scenes and once they are down in Florida. I love and miss both Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe. I wish Tony Curtis would talk about it on the Actors Studio since he is still very much alive and well.