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Some Like It Hot (1959)
Where Some Like It Hot says it takes place, and where it was really shot.
Miami's Seminole Ritz hotel is really a California beach resort, and most of the film never left Hollywood
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Scenes and places
The Chicago speakeasy raid
Joe and Jerry play in a mob-owned speakeasy that a police raid shuts down. They slip away, but not before they see something they were never meant to see, and Spats Colombo's gang spots them as they run.
Set in Spats Colombo's speakeasy, Chicago — A Prohibition-era club run by the Mafia boss Spats Colombo, where Joe and Jerry play in the band. Google Maps · Apple Maps
A hidden bar run by a local gangster, entered with a funeral password.
The Florida Limited
Broke and desperate to leave Chicago, Joe and Jerry put on dresses and become Josephine and Daphne to join an all-female band bound for Miami. On the train they meet the singer Sugar Kane and both fall for her.
Set in Chicago train station, Florida Limited — The train heading from Chicago to Miami, carrying Sweet Sue's all-girl band. Google Maps · Apple Maps
The overnight train on which the band travels south to Miami.
The Seminole Ritz Hotel
The band arrives at the grand Florida hotel where it is booked to play. Joe and Jerry keep up their disguises while looking for a way to get closer to Sugar.
Set in Seminole Ritz Hotel, Miami — The fictional Miami resort hotel where the band has a three-week job. Google Maps · Apple Maps
A fictional 1920s-style seaside resort hotel; the story gives only Miami, so the story point here is the city centre.
Filmed at Hotel del Coronado, Coronado, California — Exterior shots of the Seminole Ritz were filmed here. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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The beach and Junior
Joe poses as Junior, a Shell Oil heir with a Cary Grant-style accent, and stages an accidental meeting with Sugar. She is charmed, though she keeps wondering where she has seen him before.
Set in Hotel beach, Miami — The beach by the hotel where Sugar sunbathes. Google Maps · Apple Maps
A resort beach in Miami beside the hotel.
Osgood's yacht
Osgood, a many-times-divorced millionaire, falls for Daphne and invites her to dinner on his yacht. Joe sends Jerry off to keep him busy so he can pass the yacht off as his own and entertain Sugar.
Set in Osgood Fielding's yacht, Miami — A millionaire's yacht moored at a Miami dock. Google Maps · Apple Maps
A private yacht at a Miami dock; the story gives no exact dock.
The Friends of Italian Opera convention
The hotel hosts a conference of the Friends of Italian Opera Society, a front for a national Mafia meeting. Spats Colombo arrives, and Joe and Jerry realize they must quit the band and leave.
Set in Seminole Ritz Hotel, Miami — The hotel hosts a gathering of mobsters under a cover name. Google Maps · Apple Maps
The same fictional hotel, now hosting a mob meeting.
Filmed at Hotel del Coronado, Coronado, California — Hotel exteriors stood in for the Seminole Ritz; which banquet and lobby scenes were shot on location is not sourced. Interiors may be sound stages. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Characters
- Joe — A jazz saxophonist and gambler who dresses as Josephine to escape the mob.
- Jerry — Joe's anxious friend, a double bass player who becomes Daphne.
- Sugar Kane — The band's singer and ukulele player, hoping to find a rich husband in Florida.
Questions answered on the map
- Where is the Miami hotel in Some Like It Hot, really?