Word: lemmons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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UNIVERSITY: The Academy Award winner of 1960, Billy Wilder's THE APARTMENT is a half-funny, half-frightening probe into the mores of mid-century Big Business. The thousand faces of Jack Lemmon are uniformly hilarious; but Fred MacMurray, a boss-type figure and also a happy adulterer, is just an ugly slob. Shirley MacLaine, the apex of the triangle, is unusually wistful; at one point, she is made to attempt suicide. Whatever else it may be The Apartment is most definitely not the most amusing film since Some Like It Hot. Daily...
...Wackiest Ship in the Army. A run-of-the-main, sailor-suit farce that would have gone down with the script without the presence of brilliant Comedian Jack Lemmon...
...Wackiest Ship in the Army. A World War II farce about a rickety schooner's passage through a Jap-infested ocean is floated only through the splendiferous shenanigans of Jack Lemmon...
...Wackiest Ship in the Army. A World War II farce about a rickety schooner's passage through a Jap-infested ocean is floated only through the splendiferous shenanigans of Jack Lemmon, whose comic art portrays the hopelessly normal joe in hopelessly insane situations...
...make anything like the most of them. Still, he keeps his Ship scudding along as though it had somewhere to go, and he keeps the screen jumping with excitement: enemy planes, friendly minefields, men overboard, snipers in the plastic shrubbery. Above all, he keeps his camera trained on Funnyman Lemmon, who saves scene after scene with a pert piece of mugging, and hits the jackpot on any payoff line. Recipe for Hollywood producers : tee-hee is better with Lemmon...