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The Apartment (1960)
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A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue. Director:Billy Wilder |
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Title: The Apartment (1960)
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Won 5 Oscars.
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Jack Lemmon | ... | |
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Shirley MacLaine | ... | |
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Fred MacMurray | ... | |
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Ray Walston | ... |
Joe Dobisch
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Jack Kruschen | ... |
Dr. Dreyfuss
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David Lewis | ... | |
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Hope Holiday | ... | |
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Joan Shawlee | ... |
Sylvia
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Naomi Stevens | ... |
Mrs. Mildred Dreyfuss
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Johnny Seven | ... |
Karl Matuschka
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Joyce Jameson | ... |
The Blonde
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Willard Waterman | ... |
Mr. Vanderhoff
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David White | ... |
Mr. Eichelberger
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Edie Adams | ... |
Miss Olsen
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Storyline
As of November 1, 1959, mild mannered C.C. Baxter has been working at Consolidated Life, an insurance company, for close to four years, and is one of close to thirty-two thousand employees located in their Manhattan head office. To distinguish himself from all the other lowly cogs in the company in the hopes of moving up the corporate ladder, he often works late, but only because he can't get into his apartment, located off of Central Park West, since he has provided it to a handful of company executives - Mssrs. Dobisch, Kirkeby, Vanderhoff and Eichelberger - on a rotating basis for their extramarital liaisons in return for a good word to the personnel director, Jeff D. Sheldrake. When Baxter is called into Sheldrake's office for the first time, he learns that it isn't just to be promoted as he expects, but also to add married Sheldrake to the list to who he will lend his apartment... Written by Huggo
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Movie-wise, there has never been anything like it - laugh-wise, love-wise, or otherwise-wise! See more »Parents Guide:
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USALanguage:
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(France) See more »Also Known As:
Das Appartement See more »Box Office
Budget:
$3,000,000 (estimated)Gross:
$25,000,000 (Worldwide) (January 1970)Company Credits
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)Color:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1
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C.C. Baxter: [narrating] On November 1st, 1959, the population of New York City was 8,042,783. If you laid all these people end to end, figuring an average height of five feet six and a half inches, they would reach from Times Square to the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan. I know facts like this because I work for an insurance company - Consolidated Life of New York. We're one of the top five companies in the country. Our home office has 31,259 employees, which is more than the entire population of uhh...
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(uncredited)
Composed by Ary Macedo and Ayrton Amorín
Music played on the record player in the living room See more »
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This was the last B&W movie to win Best Picture at The Academy Awards until The Artist. Schindler's List which won in 1994 was not completely B&W as some scenes were in color, like the girl in the red and the candle at the beginning. See more »Goofs
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Sheldrake calls the Personnel Department to get Baxter's home number after Fran's suicide attempt, he says Baxter is in "ordinary premium accounting" even though Sheldrake had already promoted Baxter to a junior executive position. See more »Quotes
[first lines]C.C. Baxter: [narrating] On November 1st, 1959, the population of New York City was 8,042,783. If you laid all these people end to end, figuring an average height of five feet six and a half inches, they would reach from Times Square to the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan. I know facts like this because I work for an insurance company - Consolidated Life of New York. We're one of the top five companies in the country. Our home office has 31,259 employees, which is more than the entire population of uhh...
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Connections
Referenced in "United States of Tara: The Full F**k You Finger (#3.3)" (2011) See more »Soundtracks
"Magdalena"(uncredited)
Composed by Ary Macedo and Ayrton Amorín
Music played on the record player in the living room See more »
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