Some Like It Hot success of "Some Like It Hot" is considered one of the final nails in the coffin for the Hays Code. It is February 1929 in the city of Chicago, during the era of Prohibition. Joe (Tony Curtis) is a jazz saxophone player, and an irresponsible gambler and ladies' man; his sensible friend Jerry (Jack Lemmon) is a jazz double bass player. They work in a speakeasy (disguised as a funeral home) owned by gangster "Spats" Colombo (George Raft). Tipped off by informant "Toothpick" Charlie (George E. Stone), the police raid the joint. Joe and Jerry flee—only to accidentally witness Spats
Some Like It Hot film "Fanfare of Love". However, the original script for "Fanfare of Love" was untraceable, so Walter Mirisch found a copy of the 1951 German remake "Fanfares of Love". He bought the rights to the script and Wilder worked with this to produce a new story. Although "Some Like It Hot" has been seen as a remake of "Fanfare of Love", as both films follow the story of two musicians in search of work, Wilder was the creator of the gangster subplot that kept the musicians on the run. The studio hired Barbette, a famous female impersonator, to coach Lemmon and