   some like it hot is a 1959 american comedy film directed by billy wilder and starring marilyn monroe, tony curtis and jack lemmon. the supporting cast includes george raft, pat o'brien, joe e. brown, joan shawlee and nehemiah persoff. in 2000, the american film institute listed some like it hot as the greatest american comedy film of all time. ==plot== it is february 1929 in the city of chicago. joe is a jazz saxophone player, irresponsible gambler and ladies' man; his friend jerry is a sensible jazz double-bass player. they accidentally witness the saint valentine's day massacre. when the gangsters, led by "spats" colombo, spot them, the two run for their lives. penniless and in a mad rush to get out of town, the two musicians take a job with sweet sue and her society syncopators, an all-female band headed to miami. disguised as women and calling themselves josephine and daphne, they board a train with the band and their male manager, bienstock. before they board the train, joe and jerry notice sugar kane, the band's vocalist and ukulele player. joe and jerry become enamored of sugar and compete for her affection while maintaining their disguises. sugar confides that she has sworn off male saxophone players, who have stolen her heart in the past and left her with "the fuzzy end of the lollipop". she has set her sights on finding a sweet, bespectacled millionaire in florida. during the forbidden drinking and partying on the train, josephine and daphne become intimate friends with sugar, and have to struggle to remember that they are supposed to be girls and cannot make a pass at her. once in miami, joe woos sugar by assuming a second disguise as a millionaire named junior, the heir to shell oil, while feigning disinterest in sugar. an actual millionaire, an aging mama's boy, the much-married osgood fielding iii, tries repeatedly to pick up daphne, who rebuffs him. osgood invites daphne for a champagne supper on his yacht. jo
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