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Billy Wilder’s 1963 adaptation of the successful stage musical IRMA LA DOUCE detached makes for an though-provoking movie experience. Shirley MacLaine is simply perfect for the title role with Jack Lemmon absolutely hilarious as her laughable suitor.
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Irma la Douce (Shirley MacLaine) plies her trade on the Rue Casanova of Paris with her fellow lovelies (with such names as Lolita, Amazon Annie, Mimi the MauMau and Suzette Wong) . Into Irma’s life comes the sterling and impartial policeman Nestor (Jack Lemmon) who is soon kicked off the job because he refuses to prefer bribes and compromise his acquire conscience. Nestor goes to live with Irma as her `business manager’ but wants her to give up her profession, so he `invents’ the filthy-rich Lord X to become her sole client, and takes a night-job to befriend the shortfall. All manner of hilarious complications ensue as Nestor’s double life soon begins to hotfoot out of control!
Based on the successful stage musical (music by Marguerite Monnot, lyrics by Alexandre Breffort), IRMA LA DOUCE was re-tooled by Wilder as a straight comedy portion. It works quite well either method, though I must confess that as an admirer of the stage play, it would have been smashing for Shirley MacLaine to effect that attractive find. The movie does sustain the jaunty “Dis-donc, Dis-donc” and Andre Previn’s rep makes sterling utilize out of Monnot’s music, particularly “Our Language of Cherish”.
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The strong cast also includes Lou Jacobi as the owner of the Bistro Moustache, Bruce Yarnell as Irma’s previous manager Hippolyte and Billy Wilder stalwart Joan Shawlee as Amazon Annie.
The evocative costumes were designed by Orry-Kelly and the unbilled narrator at the beginning of the film is none other than Louis Jourdan. Shirley MacLaine was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance here and the movie itself was one of the year’s top-grossers.
The DVD presents the movie in a nicely-letterboxed 16:9 print. Colours are fleshy and rich and the soundtrack is stridant in 2-channel stereo. The only extra is the new trailer.
Well, we already knew the teaming of Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine and director Billy Wilder was magic. Fair have a witness at “The Apartment” for proof of that. And here they are, together again,putting their improbable spell on the viewer in the delightfully amusing “Irma La Douce”.
“Don’t beget that Paris, is the city that never sleeps”, says the opening narration. At 5:00 in the morning, the only sights and sounds on the streets of Paris are the sanitiation workers. But…not too far from the colossal city, is another district, and it’s bustling with workers in the meat and fish market, and construct vendors preparing their goods. You will also regain bag a street lined with cafes and hotels, and the women that work them. They claim their stations, dressed in bright and slinky garb, with fitting names like “Amazon Annie”, Kikki the Cossack” and “Lolita”, waiting for that one tall gain..the one that will status them up for life. They are “pro”fessionals! And there is none more professional than “Irma La Douce”(Aka Irma, the sweet) . Dressed in her trademark green stockings, and always toting her runt dog(also dressed in green, and a bit of a boozehound), she’s the most sought after pro in the neighborhood. She’s the best!
Everybody wins in this business. The girls turn their money over to their “managers”, the managers bribe the cops, and the cafe owner serves up the drinks and words of wisdom. Everything runs like clockwork. That is until the day, an just cop is assigned the beat. His first order of business is to develop a raid on the girls(costing him his job) . He falls colossal time for Irma though, and must figure out a blueprint to preserve her off the streets. And so Voila! …dressed as a rich Englishman, he becomes Irma’s only client, and wears himself out in the process. Watching him hold up the tear, working to pay Irma the astronomical bucks, while trying to withhold his identity a secret is as fun now, as it was over 40 years ago.
Jack Lemmon is at his comedic best. He’ll have you grinning all the method through. Shirley MacLaine’s performance of the sweetest and sexist pro ever will have you saying “ooo la la” . You’ll drop in esteem with Irma immediatley. The screenplay (Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond) is one of the cleverest and wittiest written. The film is nealry 2 and 1/2 hours, and not only does it go by fleet, you will wish there was more.
A extraordinary supporting cast includes Lou Jacobi, who plays “Moustache”, the philosophizing bartender, who has been everything from a Lawyer to a Doctor in his past(”But that’s another narrative…”), Herschel Bernardi, Hope Holiday and Joan Shawlee. The costumes by Orry-Kelly are generous, and a acquire by Andre Previn, completes this mountainous crew.
A classic comedy and a class act..a must have for fans of Wilder, Lemmon and MacLaine.
Merci Beaucoup….delight in…Laurie
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