Some Like It Hot 1939

Nicky Nelson is a fasttalking sideshow barker with a waxandalive concession on Atlantic City s boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the sidewalk to attract the customers, The Living Corpse and other lowrent acts aren t enough to lure the seenitall boardwalk strollers, and the landlord closes the show in lieu of neverpaid rent. Nicky, always promoting, goes to Stephen Hanratty, head of the pier s Dance Pavilion, to plug Krupa s band as an attraction, but Hanratty won t even listen to them. But, while there, he meets singer Lily Racquel, who knows he is a phoney but might have the ability to to talk a radiostation manager into giving her an audition. She gives him a ring to help finance the project; he promptly loses it in a crapgame.