This was a film that had to grow on me. I tried watching it once before and gave up about halfway, but this time I made it to the end.Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) are two musicians struggling to make ends meet in 1929 Chicago. After witnessing a mob hit, the two decide it is prudent to get out of town for a while but the only gig available is Sweet Sue's Society Syncopators, an all-female band headed for Miami, Florida. "Josephine" and "Daphne" join the train out at the last minute and quickly get on with all the other girls. Sugar (Marilyn Monroe) is especially fascinating to Daphne, but Josephine has a more ingenious plan. Once in Miami, Joe ditches his feminine disguise for a suit and becomes "Junior", a prickly but eligible millionaire. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to the two hapless musicians, the gangsters have followed them down to Florida.
Tony Curtis was amazing in this movie. He made a better woman than Lemmon and switched between Joe, Josephine and Junior with ease. Monroe is stuck playing another dumb blonde, this time one with a drinking problem, trying to land a rich husband. The script is well-written and funny but Jack Lemmon's laugh got on my nerves like nothing else. It's still one of the best films in the whole collection but that has more to do with Billy Wilder's direction than Monroe's involvement.
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