Some Like It Hot is an American comedy film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Marilyn Monroe as Sugar, Tony Curtis as Joe, and Jack Lemon as Jerry. Joe and Jerry are struggling musicians who accidentally witness a mob attack and become targets. To hide from the mob, they flee the state as members of a traveling women's group, where further complications arise. They quickly become romantically involved with the lead singer, Sugar, who is unable to recognize that her band members are actually men pretending to be women. Like most popular films about gender, Some Like It Hot calls us to critique constructions of sexuality and gender both in the context of the historicized moment of film production and from the perspective of future generations. Each time the two men presented themselves as women, several assumptions were made about their appearance, intelligence and behavior. It was the feminine image of the time; high heels, dress and even the stereotype of the “party girl” were all characteristics of women. The film defines gender differences by depicting women...