Some Like it Hot - 1959
Movie: Some Like it Hot - 1959
Director: Billy Wilder
Synopsis: Two struggling musicians - Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago in 1929, and need to find a way out of the city before the mob finds them. The only paying job they can find is in an all-girl band heading to Miami for an engagement at the Seminole Ritz (filmed at the Hotel Del Coronado in Coronado, CA.) Calling themselves Josephine and Daphne they board the train and on the trip both fall for "Sugar Kane" (Marilyn Monroe), the bands sexy Polish-American vocalist and ukelele player. Once in Florida, Joe woos Sugar by assuming a second disguise as a millionaire named "Junior" - the heir to Shell Oil. Meanwhile, an actual millionaire, Osgood Fielding III (Joe E. Brown) falls for Jerry in his Daphne guise.
Scene: Top: The 16 piece band - "Sweet Sue and her Society Syncopators" plays evenings with dinner. Bottom: Osgood Fielding III talks to Daphne on the ship-to-shore radio from his yacht.
Monogram: The band's logo (SSSS) appears on their music stands. Bottom: Osgood sports a captains hat and a fanciful blazer - the pocket is adorned with his monogram (initials OF above three bars for III) done in glitter inside a vine border.
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