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One of director Billy Wilders biggest box office hits following his landmark comedies Some Like It Hot and The Apartment, the spectacular Irma La Douce  adapted from the 1956 musical for the French theatre reunites Wilder with his Apartment stars Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, providing the latter with one of her most fondly remembered (and Oscar-nominated) early roles.

MacLaine is Irma, a popular Parisian prostitute whose new pimp is an unlikely procurer: Nestor (Lemmon) is a former honest cop who was just fired and framed by his boss after Nestor inadvertently had him arrested in a raid. However, Nestors love for Irma is making his newfound vocation impossible, so he poses as a phoney British lord who insists on being Irmas one and only client. But when Lord X appears to have become the victim of foul play…further comedic complications ensue!

Irma La Douce offers many of the same sardonic observations on human nature as Wilders earlier comedies in addition to the same riotous humour and touching romance but on an even broader, more colourful canvas. Collaborating again with his regular screenwriter I.A.L. Diamond, Wilder delivers one of his most purely entertaining crowd-pleasers of the 1960s.

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When a recently fired policeman falls in love with a French prostitute in Paris, he doesnt want her to be with other men, so he creates an alter-ego who will become her only customer.

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