Of all the movies I have seen and have not seen, I was really surprised that I hadn't seen this film! It is one of the most talked about films of all time. It is quite embarrassing to say that I have not even seen a movie with Marilyn Monroe before either. I didn't realize this until I began to watch. She is so mesmerizing on film! Between her bubbly voice, her sweet troubled girl personality, and the filter they put on the lens every time they shoot her, one cannot help but fall in love.
This Billy Wilder film was made in 1959. It stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon. This film is about two musicians who are gravelling for gigs around town, so that they can eat. On their way to a job, they witness a mob killing. They then split, taking the next ticket out of town, which just happens to be an all girl band traveling around the country. The only catch is that they have to blend in with the ladies in order to hide from the mob. this includes wigs, dresses, and heels.
Just when they think everything will work out, the mob shows up at the hotel they are performing at. Throughout this edge of your seat run from their death, there is hidden love affairs between women and men that are secretly men and men, and between women and women that are secretly women and men.
This film is really ahead of its time. There is subject matter regarding men marrying men, cross dressing, and mob assassination. I was pleasantly surprised. t might be a stretch but I noticed some similarities between this movie and Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. e way that Viola dresses up as a man and then falls in love and has to fight her urge to take her costume off. I found this similar to how Josephine dresses up as a woman to save his life, and then fights his urge to take her costume off once he falls in love with Sugar.
