After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.


Director
Billy Wilder
Writers
Screenplay
Billy Wilder
I. A. L. Diamond
Story
Robert Thoeren
Michael Logan
Based on Fanfare of Love
Max Bronnet
Michael Logan
Pierre Prévert
René Pujol
Robert Thoeren
Cast
Marilyn Monroe as Sugar "Kane" Kowalczyk
Tony Curtis as Joe/"Josephine"/"Shell Oil Junior"
Jack Lemmon as Jerry/"Jerraldine" and later "Daphne"
Joe E. Brown as Osgood Fielding III
George Raft as "Spats" Colombo
Pat O'Brien as Agent Mulligan
Nehemiah Persoff as "Little Bonaparte"
Joan Shawlee as Sweet Sue
Dave Barry as Mister Bienstock
Billy Gray as Sig Poliakoff
Barbara Drew as Nellie Weinmeyer
Grace Lee Whitney as Rosella (Fiddle)
George E. Stone as "Toothpick" Charlie
Mike Mazurki as Spats's henchman
Harry Wilson as Spats's henchman
Edward G. Robinson Jr. as Johnny Paradise
Beverly Wills as Dolores
Al Breneman as the bellboy