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The Apartment (1960)

Not Rated | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.

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Jack Lemmon

C.C. Baxter
Shirley MacLaine

Fran Kubelik
Fred MacMurray

Jeff D. Sheldrake
Ray Walston

Joe Dobisch
Jack Kruschen

Dr. Dreyfuss
David Lewis

Al Kirkeby
Hope Holiday

Mrs. Margie MacDougall
Joan Shawlee

Sylvia
Naomi Stevens

Mrs. Mildred Dreyfuss
Johnny Seven

Karl Matuschka
Joyce Jameson

The Blonde
Willard Waterman

Mr. Vanderhoff
David White

Mr. Eichelberger
Edie Adams

Miss Olsen

Director:

Billy Wilder

Writers:

Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond

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Jack Lemmon was playing with a nasal spray prop in his dressing room and discovered if he gave it a sharp squeeze, it would squirt ten feet. He filled it with milk to make the liquid visible on black-and-white film, and when Fred MacMurray, chastises him for creating a ... ...

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C.C. Baxter: On November 1st, 1959, the population of New York City was 8,042,783. If you laid all these people end to end, figuring an average height of five feet six and a half inches, they would reach from Times Square to the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan. I...

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When Miss Olsen picks up the extension after being fired, we hear Sheldrake completing dialing his call to Baxter. A rotary dialer will not work when the extension is off the hook.