Sweet Sue — Some Like It Hot Character Profile

About Sweet Sue

The leader of the all-female band Society Syncopators traveling to Miami. Joe and Jerry join her group under false identities to escape Chicago and evade the mob.

Character Facts

Played by

Joan Shawlee

Appears in

Some Like It Hot (1959)

Role

Supporting

More characters from Some Like It Hot

• Joe (Josephine) (Tony Curtis)
• Jerry (Daphne) (Jack Lemmon)
• Sugar Kane Kowalczyk (Marilyn Monroe)
• Spats Colombo (George Raft)
• Beinstock (Dave Barry)
• Detective Mulligan (Pat O'Brien)
• Johnny Paradise (Edward G. Robinson Jr.)
• Osgood Fielding III (Joe E. Brown)
• Little Bonaparte (Nehemiah Persoff)
• Nellie (Barbara Drew)
• Band Member (uncredited) (Georgia Joan Hannan)
• Spats' Henchman (Mike Mazurki)