Memorable performance from Marilyn.

Rating: 10/10 (14 March 2005)

Two 1920s jazz musicians Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) flee a gangster ridden Chicago after accidentally witnessing the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. The pair seek refuge by disguising themselves as women and joining an all-girl band, headed by Monroe. Curtis instantly falls for her, and after an hilarious scene in which Lemmon and Curtis spend an evening in a train carriage with the wild women from her band, they end up in Miami, where Curtis attempts to woo Monroe, by reverting to being a male. He pretends to be an impotent millionaire with a Cary Grant voice and mannerisms. Marilyn tries to invigorate him on the sofa by seduction. At the same time, Lemmon is being chased by a real millionaire, in the shape of Osgood E Fielding 111 (Joe E Brown) who is unperturbed by the fact that Lemmon is, in fact, a man. While all this is going on, the mob is closing in, lead by Spats Columbo (George Raft). Marilyn plays Sugar Kane.