The Apartment

The Apartment is a 1960 comedy film from directed by Billy Wilder. The leading roles were played by Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine.

The film was nominated for ten Oscars and won five, including the Oscar for Best Film. The critics were very pleased with the movie, just like the public. The Apartment spent $ 25 million on.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == Read warning: text below contains details about the content and/or the end of the story.In the huge insurance company Consolidated Life Insurance Company's Office in New York works Office slave C.C. ' Bud ' Baxter. Promotion in this Office jungle is reserved only for the talented and smart guys. Baxter is not a smart guy, but has figured out. In Exchange for promotion shall inform his apartment, located in the Upper West Side of Manhattan regularly available to a number of managers. The bosses use the apartment of Baxter for amorous adventures with their girlfriends. Itself is secretly in love with the beautiful Baxter Fran Kubelik, that the lifts in the insurance office serves. The promotions of Baxter begin to fall, also at the hiring manager of the Office, Sheldrake. He smells Wick and confronts Baxter with his findings. Just like Baxter thinks he is going to be fired, says Sheldrake for that he also allowed to use the apartment. The relieved Baxter agrees. What the last however doesn't know is that the girl of his dreams, Fran Kubelik, the mistress of Sheldrake. At the Christmas party at the Office discovered Baxter, however, that Fran and Sheldrake a relationship. Fran itself has since noticed that Sheldrake her never will marry as he always promises. In the apartment of Baxter confronts them with this discovery, but the hiring manager Sheldrake slips away to his wife and children. If Baxter comes back in his apartment he finds Fran in his bed, she has taken an overdose of sleeping pills. He alerts his neighbor, doctor Dreyfus, who saves the girl without having to go to the hospital. Startled Baxter reports the incident to Sheldrake who grateful is that Baxter has resolved the situation as discrete. While Fran to come out of her in bed is overdose, Baxter at her remains. If the situation persists for several days, begin to murmur the managers. They may not to the flat with their girlfriends. Also the colleagues from Baxter smelling Wick and start to gossip that he and Fran and a relationship. To make matters worse, the disaster is the brother-in-law of Fran to the apartment. Opgestokt by the managers thinks Baxter holds and stores his sister-in-law caught him. Meanwhile, the wife of Sheldrake behind his affair with Fran and sends him out the door. The hiring manager has learned nothing and asks Baxter if he can get the apartment with old and new for an evening with Fran. Baxter is furious, refuses and takes his dismissal. She understands that this is, as Fran Baxter is the man of her life and moves in with him in. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==For History[ Edit] == After the success of Some Like It Hot Billy Wilder was still planning to make a film with Jack Lemmon. Wilder was so impressed with the comic talent of the actor that he's been in the filming ofSome Like It Hot ' was working on the planning of a new film with Lemmon, The Apartment. Together with its fixed text writer Izzy created a film on the theme of adultery Diamond Wilder. He wrote a synopsis and discussed the story with Jack Lemmon. The actor heard it to and signed without that he had seen a scenario. In his biography he would later also have signed that Lemmon told if he should have read the phone book, he had so much faith in the Director. ==Scenario<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===The legend of the incomplete scenario<span class="mw-editsection" len="359" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">One of the persistent legends around The Apartment is that the scenario was not finished before filming began and that Wilder the actors improvise. This rumor was helped by, among other things, the world in lead actress Shirley MacLaine. They got but forty pages of the scenario because Wilder did not want the end of the story they would know. He wanted to retain a certain naturel in her acting and was worried that MacLaine would anticipate too much in the end. MacLaine thought however that the scenario was not ready. Wilder, however, was too much of a perfectionist to allow he would make film without complete scenario. According to Lemmon in his biography were works of art, to which on average one and a half years Wilders scenarios was worked. The Director had according to the actor played the whole movie in his head and changed only in the unlikely event that something like a certain scene didn't work during the shooting.Improvise by actors there was certainly not at. MacLaine noticed this right when a scene with her was immediately turned over because they one word was deviated from its text. The only one who was allowed to improvise here and there was Jack Lemmon. ===The writing duo Wilder-Diamond<span class="mw-editsection" len="352" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">Wilder wrote film scripts are always with a permanent partner. This was initially Charles Brackett with whom he wrote several scenarios between 1930-1950. After the pair had gone out, found Wilder in 1956 a new writing partner, I.A.L. "Izzy" Diamond. Together they wrote Love in the Afternoon (1957), and then another eleven films, including Some Like It Hot and The Apartment. The quiet, introverted Diamond was the polar opposite of the Extrovert Wilder, but they shared a dry sense of humor and interest in the same topics, such as seemingly intricate plots that mislead the Viewer. The Apartment was the third scenario in which the duo Wilder-Diamond worked. ===The ideas behind the scenario<span class="mw-editsection" len="349" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">The concept for the scenario was submitted by the British film David Lean 's Brief Encounter (1945). In the film has a married woman having an affair with another man, in which they use the apartment of a friend. Wilder wanted to make such a film, but in the forties of the last century the Hays Code forbade American filmmakers to make movies about adultery. In 1960 was the influence of the Hays Code much less significant and Wilder could take its course. Several other events formed the idea behind the scenario. Diamond, for example, came with the true story that had happened to a friend of his. After he had given his girlfriend vouchers, left the friend home and only came much later. In the meantime, his girlfriend had committed suicide and lay dead in the bed of Diamonds friend. Wilder came with the assassination of Jennings Long. Long was a COP from Hollywood who was shot by producer Walter Wanger after the latter had discovered that Long had a relationship with his wife, actress Joan Bennett. For the affair had long made use of the apartment of one of his employees. ==Actors<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Hoodrollen<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">The selection of the lead roles was no problem. Billy Wilder had figured out The Apartment with Jack Lemmon in the lead role as C.C. Baxter and although Shirley Maclaine has not previously had worked with Wilder was also they first choice when Fran Kubelik. Marilyn Monroe would have liked to play the role of Fran Kubelik and told this later during a party to Wilder. It was Monroe apparently failed to notice that the Director a doppelganger of Monroe had chosen for the role of ' the blonde ' (the blonde), the spoiled girl at the Office party. Wilder had worked together twice with Monroe (The Seven Year Itch and Some Like It Hot) and was still not over it. It constantly arrive late on the set, or even not at all appear, it constantly forgetting her text or the tens of thousands of takes that the actress needed, all had the Director driven to madness. Still in no million years he would have chosen her as Fran. ===Supporting Roles<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">For the role of Paul Douglas Wilder in thought the hiring manager Sheldrake perfect actor to have found. Two weeks before production began, however, the actor got a fatal heart attack. Wilder wanted when hiring Fred MacMurray. The actor had in Wilders film Double Indemnity 1944, played the role of killer and then had made a great impression on him. But MacMurray hesitated. He had by now built up a reputation as an actor in sympathetic roles and was worried that his portrayal of the unscrupulous Sheldrake turned against him would times. However, he was persuaded and played his role full of conviction. The consequence was that his misgivings came out. After the premiere, he was overwhelmed with letters full of swear complain enough about. Especially women responded fiercely, and of them hit MacMurray even with her bag. The unfortunate actor engaged itself for no more unsympathetic character to play. For the role of Dr. Dreyfuss wanted the studio Groucho Marx, but Billy Wilder wanted an actor with more talent for dramatic roles. He had the character written with Lou Jacobi in his mind, but this actor was just active on Broadway and got no permission to temporarily in the movie to play. He was replaced by Jack Kruschen. ==Production<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Locations and decors<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">The film was shot in the Sam Goldwyn studios in Los Angeles. Here was the imposing set built in which the Office of the insurance company can be seen. According to the press releases from 1960 was the set built from metal and glass and took approximately 7500 m2 to complete. In a later interview Wilder stated that the use of a forced perspective, in which the agencies that were ever further on the set were smaller than their predecessors. The actors were getting smaller in stature, as they are on the set to see further. No little people (dwarves) were used for this purpose, as is claimed, but children. The figures for children are cut out of cardboard and with threads were moved. According to Hollywood Reporter by december 1959 stood out for four million dollars in borrowed office machinery on the set. They were served by employee of IBM. Hiring manager Sheldrake's Office was decorated with paintings by Paul Kleeand Massimo Campigli, taken from the private collection of Billy Wilder itself. Wilder also suggested that the bed is available in the room of Baxter State. Some decor parts were invisible to the Viewer. Create stationery for Fred MacMurray as left Wilder with the name of his character was made The outdoor recordings on Sheldrake. in New York and all in the evening. It was filmed in Central Park, on Columbus Avenue and in the lobby of the Majestic Theatre. ===Wilder and Jack Lemmon<span class="mw-editsection" len="342" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">Since Wilder had written the film with Jack Lemmon in mind also the actor got all the attention of the Director. He gave Lemmon all freedom to the character of Baxter to complete. The Director was so full of praise for Lemmon that he compared him with Charlie Chaplin. According to Wilder was Lemmon a professional and very accommodating. Although he had their own opinion about all kinds of things he would never slow down the recordings on its position to remain standing, said Wilder later. Lemmon played Baxter as an ambitious man, nice but gullible, and quickly intimidated. Van Wilder and Lemmon got the chance to improvise ideas. An example is the nose spray that Baxter used as he runs through the cold streets with a cold. That nasal spray was initially not as prominent in the scenario. Only when Lemmon in his dressing room with a nasal spray, he discovered that if he played hard on the device printed the liquid a few metres far away was distributed. Because the content of the spray does not show on a black and white film, he supplemented the spray with milk. During the shooting on the nasal spray and the hustle and bustle Lemmon milk like substance shot right past the face of actor Fred MacMurray. That improvised brilliantly through nothing to say, the so-called evil to Lemmon to look and to continue his text. Wilder was enthusiastic and maintained the scene. Another improvisation of Lemmon that grace was made in Wilders eyes was a graduate student fumbling around with spaghetti that was sieved with a tennis racket. ===Wilder and Shirley MacLaine<span class="mw-editsection" len="347" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">Shirley MacLaine was less happy. She worked for the first time with Wilder and Director and actress knew each other yet. MacLaine was no easy actress and there were frequent tensions between her and Lemmon and between her and Wilder. The main concern of MacLaine was that they should never deviate from the scenario. The actress the Director regularly drove on the brink of madness by constantly improvise. Since Wilder even scenes, beating David Coulthard taking them but one word was departed from the scenario, she saw soon that could limit themselves better to the text. Wilder was otherwise very satisfied with her performance and chose MacLaine in Irma La Douce next to Jack Lemmon (1963). ===The film crew who ponders, Wilder decided<span class="mw-editsection" len="354" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">Billy Wilder had a year and a half with Izzy Diamond to The Apartment worked and there should be no one changed anything to the film without his permission. When Jack Lemmon wanted to say the word ' yes ' twice, while in the scenario was ' yes ', but once there, it took twenty minutes before a decision about this Diamond and Wilder names. Cinematographer Joseph LaShellewas regularly at odds with Wilder about the image of the film. LaShelle had a background in television and was a proponent of close-ups. Wilder and forbade LaShelle gruwde to create them.Wilder loved such a huge grip on his film that he had his permanent seretary Doane Harrison during the recording. He conferred regularly with Harrison about camera angles and the necessity of a particular recording. Actually, the film was already mounted during the shooting. ===Scenes<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==Awards and nominations<span class="mw-editsection" len="342" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Won: Best Director (Billy Wilder) Won: best editing (Daniel Mandell) Won: best film Won: best original screenplay (I.A.L. Diamond and Billy Wilder) Won: best interior decoration – black and white (Alexandre Trauner and Edward g. Boyle) Nominated: best male lead (Jack Lemmon) Nominated: best supporting actor (Jack Kruschen) Nominated: best female lead (Shirley MacLaine) Nominated: best cinematography-black and white (Joseph LaShelle) Nominated: best sound (Gordon Sawyer) Won: best comedy film Won: best actor in a comedy film (Jack Lemmon) Won: best actress in a comedy film (Shirley MacLaine) Nominated: Best Director (Billy Wilder) Won: best film (Billy Wilder) Won: best foreign actor (Jack Lemmon) Won: best foreign actress (Shirley MacLaine) Won: best film music (Adolph Deutsch) Won: best actress (Shirley MacLaine) Nominated: Golden Lion (Billy Wilder) {| class="toccolours" len="1886" style="font-size:11.8181819915771px;border:1pxsolidrgb(170,170,170);padding:5px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:-0.5em;clear:both;width:1198.18176269531px;"
 * 2 Cast
 * 3 history
 * Scenario 4
 * 4.1 the legend of the incomplete scenario
 * 4.2 The writing duo Wilder-Diamond
 * 4.3 the ideas behind the scenario
 * 5 Actors
 * 5.1 Hoodrollen
 * 5.2 supporting roles
 * 6 Production
 * 6.1 locations and decors
 * 6.2 Wilder and Jack Lemmon
 * 6.3 Wilder and Shirley MacLaine
 * 6.4 the film crew who ponders, Wilder decided
 * 6.5 Scenes
 * 7 awards and nominations
 * 8 Sources
 * 9 external link
 * The party at the Insurance Office on Christmas Eve was recorded on 23 december 1959. Everyone, film crew, actors and extras was in the right Christmas mood and Wilder let everyone take its course. Everything was in one recording included.
 * Fred MacMurray had the necessary with the jokes that Wilder sometimes huge victories. In one of the scenes had to MacMurray actress Shirley MacLaine, give a note of hundred dollars.Wilder gave the actor a real banknote of hundred dollars for the recording. After the scene was included gave the note to the back of hundred MacMurray Director. A few minutes later stepped Wilder on MacMurray and asked his money back. A stunned MacMurray said softly that he had given the note already. Wilder continued to deny this and the actor was becoming increasingly desperate. Eventually he pulled his wallet and gave Wilder a note of 100 dollars. The Director started laughing and explained that everything had been a joke.
 * Wilder preserved the lock of his film until the end of the recordings. He did not want Lemmon and MacLaine could anticipate the end. Twenty minutes before the recordings they got conscious pages from the scenario. The actors did not let up and quickly studied their text. The scene was there in one recording.
 * 1961 Academy Awards 
 * 1961 Golden Globes 
 * 1961 BAFTA's 
 * 1961 Grammy Award 
 * 1961 Venice Film festival 
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