Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 123 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in.
- chicago
- illinois
- florida
- transvestism
- musician
- fake identity
- deception
- on the run
- mafia
- cross dressing
- black and white
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Tony Curtis
Joe (Josephine)
Jack Lemmon
Jerry (Daphne)
Marilyn Monroe
Sugar Kane Kowalczyk
George Raft
Spats Colombo
- Pat O'Brien — Detective Mulligan
- Joe E. Brown — Osgood Fielding III
- Nehemiah Persoff — Little Bonaparte
- Joan Shawlee — Sweet Sue
- Billy Gray — Sig Poliakoff
- George E. Stone — Toothpick Charlie
- Dave Barry — Beinstock
- Mike Mazurki — Spats' Henchman
- Harry Wilson — Spats' Henchman
- Beverly Wills — Dolores
- Barbara Drew — Nellie
- Directed
- Billy Wilder
Production
- Studio
- The Mirisch Company
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
