Wilder thumbs his nose at all the rules in this one, mixing slapstick and screwball, gangster film and musical into a racy, transvestite farce. Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis are two prohibition-era jazz musicians on the run from Chicago "law," St. Valentine's Day Massacre-style. They don detailed and convincing drag and sign on with a touring, all-woman band featuring the singer Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe). On the train to Florida, the men experience the joy and pain of being two of the girls. Once in Miami, however, Lemmon turns his attentions to the lascivious millionaire Joe E. Brown, while Curtis, doing a rendition of Cary Grant that out-Grants Grant, uses impotence as a lure for the caring side of Sugar Kane. The eye-opening audacity of this film's thinly veiled sexuality (homosexual and heterosexual) seems more and more remarkable as the years go by! All the principles are at their comic best, with Monroe's sweetness shining through an intelligent parody of The Blonde.