It was more fun than I was expecting...the main joke is that the two main characters are dressed as women (because they are hiding out from prohibition-era mobsters in an all-woman Jazz band), and that no-one notices that they are men. It's done well and doesn't feel daft within the limits of the comedy genre, helped (as others have said) by the period setting. The jokes are mainly anti-sexist rather than sexist...the two men have difficulty walking in heels, and they can't believe how drafty it is wearing women's clothes.
And as soon as they adopt the female gender other men think that they are women and make passes at them.
I quite like the fact that George Raft is sending up his own gangster persona from his other films - another hood does his coin-tossing thing, and Raft's character says "where did you learn that cheap trick?".
And Marilyn Monroe is much more beautiful and sexy than I would have guessed, at the same time as not really being pretty. It's striking the way she absolutely shines on the screen, more than any other character...is it to do with lighting, or was she really that special? Also clear where Debbie Harry got her character tropes from...I sort of knew that, but much more striking seeing it for myself.
Obtained via informal distribution, and watched using VLC/renderer and Chromecast, which is now working well again.
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