Movie

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#1438

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Comedy, Romance

USA / English

Shirley MacLaine	Irma La Douce
Jack Lemmon	Nestor Patou / Lord X
Lou Jacobi	Moustache
Bill Bixby
Herschel Bernardi	Insp. Lefevre
Bruce Yarnell	Hippolyte
Hope Holiday	Lolita
Joan Shawlee	Amazon Annie
Grace Lee Whitney	Kiki the Cossack
Paul Dubov	Andre
Howard McNear	Concierge

Director	Billy Wilder
Producer	Billy Wilder; Edward L. Alperson; I.A.L. Diamond
Writer	Billy Wilder; I.A.L. Diamond; Alexandre Breffort

Meet Nestor, a young man with a very complicated love life. Employed as business manager to Irma La Douce - a proud and profitable lady of the streets - the poor guy had gone and fallen in love with her! So how do you keep a popular Parisiennne like Irma faithful? Simple. Disguise yourself as an elderly English Lord who immediately becomes Irma's sole client and means of support! But what's a jealous manager to do when the illustrious Irma claims that the man she's really in love with is not the smitten Nestor but the dotty old lord himself?

Edition Details
Barcode	027616865908
Region	Any Region
Release Date	18-Sep-01
Screen Ratio	Widescreen 2.35:1 Color (Anamorphic)
Subtitles	French; Spanish
Audio Tracks	ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono [CC] FRENCH: Dolby Digital Mono SPANISH: Dolby Digital Mono
Layers	Single Side, Single Layer
Nr of Disks/Tapes	1

Personal Details
Purchase Date	December 2008
Store	MAO
Tags	DVDCL
Links	DVD Empire IMDB

"Audaciously funny! A brilliant comedy!" -Los Angeles Times This bawdy, Academy Award®-winning farce, which reunites The Apartment's Lemmon and MacLaine (in a Best Actress Oscar®-nominated performance), is a "charming antic romantic comedy" (The New York Times) directed and co-written by Billy Wilder.