Two Classic Comedies

The Apartment

C.C. "Buddy Boy" Baxter is a lonely office worker at Consolidated Insurance Company in New York City. To climb the corporate ladder, he allows four managers to take turns borrowing his Upper West Side apartment for extramarital affairs. Baxter meticulously juggles the "booking" schedule; the steady stream of women convinces his neighbors he is a playboy.
In a quid pro quo, the four managers submit glowing performance reviews of Baxter to personnel director Jeff Sheldrake, who grows suspicious of Baxter's popularity. Under Sheldrake's cynical questioning, Baxter confesses the arrangement with his apartment. Sheldrake implies that he will promote Baxter, if Sheldrake also gains use of the apartment for his own affair, starting that night. As compensation for short notice, he gives Baxter two tickets to see The Music Man. Baxter asks Fran Kubelik, an elevator operator coworker to whom he is attracted, to join him. She agrees to meet Baxter after dinner with a "former fling", who turns out to be Sheldrake. When Sheldrake tells her that he plans to divorce his wife to be with her, they head to Baxter's apartment, while Baxter is stood up at the theater.
During the company's raucous Christmas Eve party, Sheldrake's secretary, Miss Olsen, tells Fran that her boss has had numerous affairs with female employees, including herself. Fran confronts Sheldrake at Baxter's apartment; he claims he loves her, gives her $100 as a Christmas present, which makes her feel "paid", and heads back to his family in White Plains.
Realizing Fran is the woman Sheldrake has been taking to his apartment, Baxter lets himself be picked up by a married woman at a local bar. When they arrive at his apartment, Fran is passed out on his bed from an overdose of sleeping pills. He sends away the woman from the bar and enlists his neighbor, Dr. Dreyfuss, to revive Fran. To deflect questions and protect Sheldrake, Baxter implies he was responsible for the incident; Dreyfuss scolds him for philandering and advises him to "be a mensch."
Fran spends two days recuperating in Baxter's apartment. A bond develops between them, especially after he confesses to a comically botched suicide attempt over unrequited love where he shot himself in the knee. Fran confides she has always suffered bad luck in her love life.
As Baxter prepares a romantic dinner, one of the managers arrives for a tryst. Baxter persuades him and his companion to leave, but the manager recognizes Fran and later informs his colleagues. They are annoyed they have lost ready access to the apartment since Baxter's promotion. When Fran's brother-in-law Karl comes to the office looking for her, the managers send him to Baxter's apartment. Baxter deflects Karl's anger over Fran's wayward behavior by once again assuming all responsibility; Karl punches him. As she leaves, Fran chides Baxter for taking the blame but kisses him for protecting her.

When Sheldrake learns Miss Olsen told Fran about his affairs, he fires her; she retaliates by spilling all to Sheldrake's wife, who promptly throws him out. After complaining to Baxter that women expect affairs to lead to marriage, Sheldrake gives Fran insincere assurances; she now hints she is losing interest. Having promoted Baxter to an even higher position, Sheldrake expects Baxter to resume lending the key to his apartment so he can take Fran there. Instead, Baxter gives back the key to the building's "executive washroom", proclaiming that he has decided to become a mensch, and quits the firm. He decides to move out of the apartment and begins to pack his belongings.
That night at a New Year's Eve party, Sheldrake indignantly tells Fran about Baxter's quitting, disclosing that Baxter refused to let him use his apartment, particularly with Fran. She abandons Sheldrake and runs to the apartment. At the door, Fran hears an apparent gunshot, but Baxter opens the door holding a bottle of just-opened champagne. Baxter declares his love for Fran. As she prepares to resume a game of gin rummy left unfinished earlier, she smiles, hands him the cards and says, "Shut up and deal".

Some Like It Hot

In Prohibition-era Chicago, Joe is a jazz saxophone player and an irresponsible, impulsive gambler and ladies' man; Jerry, his anxious friend, is a jazz double bass player. They work in a speakeasy owned by local Mafia boss "Spats" Colombo. Tipped off by informant "Toothpick" Charlie, the police raid the joint. Joe and Jerry escape but accidentally witness Spats and his henchmen gunning down Toothpick and his gang in revenge (an incident inspired by the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre). Spats and his gang see them as they flee. Broke, terrified, and desperate to leave Chicago, Joe and Jerry disguise themselves as women named Josephine and Daphne so they can join Sweet Sue and her Society Syncopators, an all-female band headed to Miami by train. On the train, they befriend Sugar Kane, the band's vocalist and ukulele player.
Joe and Jerry become obsessed with Sugar and compete for her affections while maintaining their disguises. Sugar confides to Joe that she has sworn off (male) saxophone players, who have taken advantage of her in the past. She hopes to find a gentle, bespectacled millionaire in Florida. Joe and Jerry become close friends with Sugar during a late-night party on the train, while struggling to remember that flirting with her would compromise their cover.

After arriving in Miami, Joe woos Sugar by posing as Junior, heir to the Shell Oil fortune, affecting a Cary Grant-esque accent while feigning indifference to her. Aging, multi-divorced Osgood Fielding III—an actual millionaire—persistently pursues "Daphne" (Jerry), whose refusals only fuel his desire. After Osgood invites Jerry to dinner on his yacht, Joe convinces Jerry to keep Osgood occupied onshore, so Joe can pass the yacht off as his own and entertain Sugar. As Junior, he tells Sugar that psychological trauma from the death of a former lover has left him impotent, but he would immediately marry anyone who could cure him. Sugar tries to arouse him, with considerable success. Meanwhile, Jerry and Osgood tango until dawn. Back at the hotel, Jerry announces that he has accepted Osgood's proposal of marriage, anticipating a divorce and cash settlement when the ruse is revealed. Joe convinces Jerry that he cannot marry Osgood.
The hotel hosts a conference for the Friends of Italian Opera Society, a front for a national Mafia meeting, presided over by Little Bonaparte—who already has a grudge against Spats over the murder of Toothpick. Spats and his men arrive, and this time see through Joe and Jerry's disguises. Fearing for their lives, Joe and Jerry realize they must quit the band and leave the hotel. Joe breaks up with Sugar over the telephone, telling her that he must marry a woman of his father's choosing and move to Venezuela, leaving her heartbroken. In male disguises, Joe and Jerry evade Spats' men by hiding under a table at the syndicate banquet, where Little Bonaparte has Spats and his gang gunned down. Joe and Jerry are spotted as they flee through the hotel. They revert to women's clothing to evade capture. On the way out, Joe, dressed as Josephine, sees Sugar onstage singing a lament to lost love, kisses her, then rejoins Jerry in their flight. Realizing that Josephine and Junior are the same person, Sugar follows them.
Still dressed as Daphne, Jerry persuades Osgood to take him and Joe away on his yacht. Sugar unexpectedly joins them on Osgood's launch just as it leaves the dock. Removing his disguise, Joe confesses to Sugar and tells her that she deserves better, but Sugar wants him anyway, realizing he is the first man to genuinely care for her. Meanwhile, Jerry, as Daphne, tries to get out of his engagement, listing reasons why "she" and Osgood cannot marry—she can't wear his mother's wedding gown because she's "not built the same", is not a natural blonde, smokes, cannot have children, has been living with a saxophone player—none of which bother Osgood. Exasperated, Jerry rips off his wig and says, "I'm a man!" in his normal voice. Still unperturbed and smiling, Osgood replies "Well, nobody's perfect!" leaving Jerry speechless.