In Billy Wilder's 1960 tour de force,
The Apartment, Shirley MacLaine plays an adorably gamine depressive and Jack Lemmon a pencil-pushing mensch, both of them caught between a boss and a heart place. In a world of gray-flannel-suited mad men, these two are testament to the ultimate power of simple humanity and love. Following on the hilarious heels of the sizzling
Some Like It Hot, released in 1959, Wilder pulled off an amazing feat with another unforgettable classic:
The Apartment ranks at #80, and its predecessor #22, on the American Film Institute's
"100 greatest American movies of all time." Today's typo was found twice in OhioLINK and 11 times in WorldCat. You may or may not find it in your own little cubicle, but either way,
shut up and deal.
(Screenshot of Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine in the trailer for The Apartment, from Wikimedia Commons.)
Carol Reid
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