“Some Like It Hot is a fast, racy and funny piece of nonsense in the best of the screwball traditions, borrowing from every period of movie comedy, notably primitive slapstick and Marx Brothers zaniness. Some Like It Hot is madcap 1920s satire, depending for most of its humour on a sort of transvestite comedy carrying an ever-so-slender story-line, and Wilder thumbs his nose at just about every rule in the Hollywood book. Lemmon and Curtis play a pair of seedy musicians - a saxophonist and a bass-player - who just happen to be in that garage when the St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929 takes place. To avoid becoming the next victims of lawless Chicago, the two speakeasy dance-band musicians sign on with an all-girl orchestra en route to Florida. The singer with the band is Marilyn Monroe, known professionally as ‘Sugar Kane,' and the boys-as-girls in close quarters with real females aboard the train to Miami produce the expected fine crop of jokes. There is one scene in an upper berth of the sleeping-car that is the funniest thing of its kind since the Marx Brothers got trapped in that ship stateroom in A Night at the Opera. In Florida, Lemmon, in wig and skirts, catches the fancy of lascivious millionaire Joe E. Brown, while Curtis spends his spare time in men's clothing imitating Cary Grant to catch Marilyn.” --American Film Institute