Word: lemmons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Irma La Douce. Director Billy Wilder maintains that prostitution can be fun, and Shirley MacLaine goes along with the gag. Jack Lemmon, as her Rover Boy lover boy, mugs magnificently as he bumbles about his business of trying to make Shirley go straight...
Irma La Douce. Director Billy Wilder maintains that prostitution can be fun. and Shirley MacLaine goes along with the gag. Jack Lemmon. as her Rover Boy lover boy, mugs magnificently as he bumbles about his business of trying to make Shirley go straight...
...going well at the Casanova Hotel ("They charge by the hour; nobody could afford to live there") near Paris' Les Halles. The girls are busy and happy, and Irma the Sweet is the busiest and happiest. Then disaster strikes. A new flic comes on the beat-Lemmon playing a flatfoot so square that he even pays for the apples he filches. He is scandalized by the hustlers' bustling and phones headquarters for a raid. Soon the arrondissement is ringing with the soldo, soldo, soldo klaxon of the police wagon, and the minuscule lobby of the Casanova looks like...
...station, instead of being decorated for valor, Lemmon is fired: the chief inspector had been caught in the raid. Creeping sheepishly back to Les Halles, Jack gets an I-told-you-so from Moustache (Lou Jacobi), a philosophical bistro keeper: "To be overly honest in a dishonest world is like plucking a chicken against the wind: you'll end up with a mouthful of feathers...
Irma bubbles and struts through every Technicolor foot. Shirley MacLaine is an adorable golliwog in green lingerie and inky wig; her flamboyant self-assurance is the perfect foil for the bumbling Lemmon. With a face that can twinkle like a terrier's or crumple into bloodhoundish gloom at the first unkind word, Jack makes the most (once he's fired as a cop) of being Shirley's mec-the only pimp in Paris with the principles of an eagle scout...