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THE APARTMENT

VISUAL AIDS
POSTERS AND COVER ART



THE BACK OF THE BOX
WHAT THE STUDIO WANTS YOU TO KNOW

    Winner of five 1960 Academy Awards including Best Picture, The Apartment is legendary writer/director Billy Wilder at his scathing satirical best, and one of "the finest comedies Hollywood has turned out" (Newsweek).
    C.C. "Bud" Baxter (Jack Lemmon) knows the way to success in business... it's through the door of his apartment! By providing a perfect hideaway for philandering bosses, the ambitious young employee reaps a series of undeserved promotions. But when Bud lends the key to big boss J.D. Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray), he not only advances his career, but his own love life as well. For Sheldrake's mistress is the lovely Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine), elevator girl and angel of Buds dreams. Convinced that he is the only man for Fran, Bud must make the most important executive decision of his career: lose the girl... or his job.

STARRING:

Jack Lemmon: Calvin Clifford "C.C." "Bud" Baxter
Shirley MacLaine: Fran Kubelik
Fred MacMurray: Jeff D. "J.D." Sheldrake
Ray Walston: Joe Dobisch
Jack Kruschen: Dr. Dreyfuss
David Lewis: Al Kirkeby
Joan Shawlee: Sylvia
Naomi Stevens: Mrs. Mildred Dreyfuss
Hope Holiday: Mrs. Margie MacDougall
Edie Adams: Miss Mary Olsen

SCREENWRITER: Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond

DIRECTOR: Billy Wilder

RUNNING TIME: 125 minutes

STUDIO: MGM

Average Hollywood Guys Rating: B

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GIGGLES, GLOBES AND OSCARS
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

ACADEMY AWARDS
(10 nominations and 5 wins)

Best Picture
(winner)

Best Actor - Jack Lemmon
(nominated)

Best Actress - Shirley MacLaine
(nominated)

Best Supporting Actor - Jack Kruschen
(nominated)

Best Director - Billy Wilder
(winner)

Best Original Screenplay - Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond
(winner)

Best Art Direction/Set Decoration (Black And White) - Alexandre Trauner and Edward G. Boyle
(winner)

Best Cinematography (Black And White) - Joseph LaShelle
(nominated)

Best Editing - Daniel Mandell
(winner)

Best Sound - Gordon Sawyer (Samuel Goldwyn SSD)
(nominated)

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GOLDEN GIGGLES

No awards or nominations given to this film.

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GOLDEN GLOBES
(4 nominations and 3 wins)

Best Picture (Comedy)
(winner)

Best Actor (Musical/Comedy) - Jack Lemmon
(winner)

Best Actress (Musical/Comedy) - Shirley MacLaine
(winner)

Best Director - Billy Wilder
(nominated)

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THE GEEK BOX
TRIVIA TO IMPRESS YOUR EASILY IMPRESSED FRIENDS

• Neil Simon adapted the script of this film to musical form for the stage. He renamed the play Promises, Promises and it first premiered in 1968, just 8 years after the original release of the film.
• Shirley MacLaine claims that many aspects of the film were added during the shoot. She says during a break in shooting she went and filmed her cameo in the film Ocean's Eleven. She says that the Rat Pack taught her to play Gin Rummy in between takes, and upon her return began playing with Jack Lemmon. Oscar Wilde saw them playing and decided to have the two playing cards together as a plot point in the actual film.
• Paul Douglas was cast as J.D. Sheldrake originally, however he died prior to filming. The role was then given to Fred MacMurray, who Wilder had worked with previously on the film Double Indemnity.
• Oscar Wilde and I.A.L Diamond said that they wrote the script with Jack Lemmon in mind after working with him previously on Some Like It Hot. Likewise Wilde says he included the Marilyn Monroe look-alike in the film as a jab at the actress after becoming frustrated with actresses demands and poor work ethic on the set of The Seven Year Itch and Some Like It Hot.

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