Some Like It Hot (10/11) Movie CLIP - Boy Oh Boy Am I a Boy (1959) HD

CLIP DESCRIPTION:
When Daphne (Jack Lemmon) is on top of the world about her recent engagement, Joe (Tony Curtis) has to step in and remind her that she's a boy.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
The launching pad for Billy Wilder's comedy classic was a rusty old German farce, Fanfares of Love, whose two main characters were male musicians so desperate to get a job that they disguise themselves as women and play with an all-girl band in gangster-dominated 1929 Chicago. In this version, musicians Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) lose their jobs when a speakeasy owned by mob boss Spats Columbo (George Raft) is raided by prohibition agent Mulligan (Pat O'Brien). Several weeks later, on February 14th, Joe and Jerry get a job perfroming in Urbana and end up witnessing a gangland massacre in a parking garage. Fearing that they will be next on the mobsters' hit lists, Joe devises an ingenious plan for disguising their identities. Soon they are all dolled up and performing as Josephine and Daphne in Sweet Sue's all-girl orchestra. En route to Florida by train with Sweet Sue's band, the boys (girls?) make the acquaintance of Sue's lead singer Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe, in what may be her best performance). Joe and Jerry immediately fall in love, though of course their new feminine identities prevent them from acting on their desires. Still, they are determined to woo her, and they enact an elaborate series of gender-bending ruses complicated by the fact that flirtatious millionaire Osgood Fielding (Joe E. Brown) has fallen in love with "Daphne." The plot gets even thicker when Spats Columbo and his boys show up in Florida. Nominated for several Oscars, Some Like It Hot ended up the biggest moneymaking comedy up to 1959. Full of hilarious set pieces and movie in-jokes, it has not tarnished with time and in fact seems to get better with each passing year, as its cross-dressing humor keeps it only more and more up-to-date.

CREDITS:
TM & © MGM (1959)
Cast: Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon
Director: Billy Wilder
Producers: I.A.L. Diamond, Doane Harrison, Billy Wilder
Screenwriters: I.A.L. Diamond, Robert Thoeren, Billy Wilder

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[fadygabr]

"of course they're real diamonds, what do you think, my fiancee is a bum?" Killer lines man

[Lubbylove]

Jack Lemmon WAS this film. Had me in stitches from start to finish.

[classics]

Jack Lemmon shaking the maracas and scatting to himself while proudly announcing his engagement … hilarious doesn’t even begin to describe it!!!

[honeypeaches]

"Why would a guy wanna marry a guy??"

"Security!"

This movie is too funny 😂

[Liz-bewq]

Jack Lemmon earned that Oscar nomination!

[GarthAstrology]

There's a whole "lowering of the threshold of convention" that both actors characterize very specifically. Playing a woman frees their self-concept. The Curtis character uses this freedom to adopt the role of androgyn and disguise artist, flipping back and forth between male and female (love his poor person's imitation of a rich person - complete with Cary Grant accent!). The Lemmon character discovers the relational community of women and gives in to his inner Cinderella story, allowing himself to be swept up in a romance with a smitten millionaire. There is genius in every frame of this film.

[APaddyyy]

I love how it doesn't fall into the 'moral' commonplace of saying "because it's wrong" and says "it's just not been done" instead

[hilotakenaka]

Fun fact: the only reason why the maracas are in the scene is because test screenings had the crowd laugh so loud the rest of the dialogue couldn't be heard. So the maracas were added to give some time for the audience to die down

[definitelynottommywiseau]

this movie is ahead of its time. a true masterpiece.

[allys]

“Why would a guy wanna marry a guy?” ahhh a classic movie predicament

[tommyt]

Fun trivia bit: the scene was orig done without the maracas and Jerry dancing. They had to add those pauses in b/c everyone who watched the orig vers was laughing too hard and missed half the jokes.

[sassia]

Why would a guy wanna marry a guy? Security. I couldn't stop laughing loll

[agenttheater]

1:32 That actually doesn't sound like a bad plan...

[tommyt]

That's great! Who's the lucky girl?

I am!

[lemorab]

I can imagine Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis thinking, in 1959, Why didn't we think of doing this!? RIP Tony and Jack. You guys were the best!

[Doleary]

“I’m not worried because I DON’T SMOKE!!!”

[cincybengals]

It's pretty crazy how ahead of its time this movie was. Making jokes out of gay marriage in the 1950s? Holy crap. That's insane. I'm surprised this was as popular as it was.

[ClovertheUnburnt]

I remember watching this as a kid, barely knowing what homosexuality was and feeling so sad that his friend would soil his happiness by acting like he didn't have the right to get treated like a princess by an old guy who's into him.
If my parents had been paying attention at that moment my coming out ciuld have happened a decade earlier...

[szee]

This movie made me a big fan of the comic genius, Jack Lemmon. The movie couldn't have been this funny without him. And it made me a fan of movies of Hollywood's Golden Years.

[ladymanderley]

Man, Billy Wilder was really ahead of his time!