from United Artists
Directed by
Billy
Wilder
Starring
Jack
Lemmon (C. C. (Bud) Baxter)
Shirley
MacLaine (Fran Kubelik)
Fred MacMurray (J. D. Sheldrake)
Ray Walston (Joe Dobisch)
Jack Kruschen (Doctor Dreyfuss)
Joan Shawlee (Sylvia)
Edie Adams (Miss Olsen)
David Lewis (Al Kirkeby)
David White (Mr. Eichelberger)
Hal Smith (Santa Claus)
Joyce Jameson (The Blonde)
Benny Burt (Bartender)
Dorothy Abbott (Office Worker)
Frances Weintraub Lax (Mrs. Lieberman)
Hope Holiday (Margie MacDougall)
Johnny Seven (Karl Matuschka)
Naomi Stevens (Mrs. Dreyfuss)
Willard Waterman (Mr. Vanderhof)
Written by
I.A.L. Diamond
Billy Wilder |
 C. C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon),
an ambitious young insurance clerk tries to get ahead by lending
his apartment key to several of the company's philandering executives.
But when he falls in love with Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine),
the building's elevator operator, he soon realizes that she's
the woman his married boss (Fred MacMurray) has been taking to
the apartment for romantic trysts. Spurred on by the exhortations
of the philosophising doctor who lives next door to him, the
troubled young man eventually re-examines his priorities and
decides to be true to himself and drop out of the rat race. In
the process, he also wins the girl. Academy Award® Nominations:
10, including Best Actor--Jack Lemmon, Best Actress--Shirley
MacLaine. Academy Awards®: 5, including Best Picture, Best
Director, Best Screenplay.
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