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...young couple hostage - got its grit from the actress Meyer calls "the demanding / mind-bludgeoning Tura Satana." A spiked cocktail of Amer-Asian genes, Satana had been stripping since she was 13 (the year she was married, according to one source) and played Suzette Wong in Billy Wilder's "Irma La Douce." At 30, she looked millennia older, not wiser but wizened, relying on reptilian instincts of survival and predation. Her Varla is the most honest, maybe the one honest, portrayal in the Meyer canon. Certainly the scariest...
...first eminence, Lemmon was usually the nice Joe--"honest, thrifty, methodical, sober, upright and really kinda dull," as he says of himself in Phffft!--getting wooed by prime kooky blonds Judy Holliday and Kim Novak. With Shirley MacLaine in The Apartment and Irma la Douce, he was the shy gent pursuing a knowing woman, the lamb trying to persuade himself to be a wolf. But the Lemmon male was more in control when surrounded by men. From early service comedies like Mister Roberts through all the films in which he played Nellie to Walter Matthau's Butch (The Fortune Cookie...
...legendary. But the man was a born foil, whose career spiked in two collaborations. One was with Billy Wilder, who directed Lemmon in "Some Like It Hot" and "The Apartment," two of the best films of the century thanks in no small part to Lemmon, and after that, "Irma La Douce," "The Fortune Cookie," "Avanti!" "The Front Page" and "Buddy Buddy...
...next played a police officer in "Irma La Douche...
...Broadway, French dramatists were all the rage: the plays of Jean Giraudoux and Samuel Beckett had good runs, as did the musicals "La Plume de ma tante" and "Irma la douce"; the young Hepburn entranced New York audiences as Colette's Gigi and Jean Anouilh's Ondine. Novels from Germany, Italy, Japan - pretty much any nation the Allies had conquered - were must reading for the intelligentsia. Jean-Paul Sartre was so famous he was parodied in Hepburn's Paris frolic "Funny Face...