amazingly we found a copy of that picture. and we ran it and talked about it and billy billy told us. actually the i guess were to buy called just the bones of what eventually became some way. back then drawing on the sentimentality of the original german screenplay wilder took his cue from the one nine hundred twenty nine st valentine s day massacre when and was known for his off screen associations with the underworld the thing that made the difference s. getting the threat of the gangster is that their life their lives are in danger which meant that just because they got bored being a drag couldn t do anything about. david selznick.
set in one thousand twenty nine during prohibition it tells the story of two down on their luck musicians joe in jerry who are marked for death after accidentally witnessing the st valentine s day massacre that s colombo played by george raft guns down a rival gang joe and jerry flee and masquerading as women join a traveling female jazz band joe played by tony curtis becomes josephine and jerry played by jack lemmon is daphne. to seduce sugar came up one singer played by none other than marilyn monroe who s out to find herself a sugar daddy joe slips into the role of an impotent millionaire. as for jerry he forgets he is a man when asked good fielding the third a real millionaire played by joey brown asks daphne to marry him. unmasked the two musicians again ending up on osgood s boat upon discovering that daphne is