Some Like It Hot (1939)

Nicky Nelson is a fasttalking sideshow barker with a waxandalive concession on Atlantic Citys 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 arent 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 piers Dance Pavilion to plug Krupas band as an attraction but Hanratty wont 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