The Apartment

(1960 • Comedy/Drama/Romance • Not Rated • 2h 5m)

Director Billy Wilder's 1960 hit film stars Jack Lemmon as C.C. Baxter, a Manhattan insurance clerk who lends his Upper West Side apartment to his superiors to use for extramarital affairs. When his manager Mr. Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray) begins using Baxter's apartment in exchange for promoting him, Baxter is disappointed to learn that Sheldrake's mistress is Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine), the elevator girl at work whom Baxter also has an interest in. Soon Baxter must decide between the girl and his career. The film was nominated for ten Academy Awards, and won five, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay. Lemmon and MacLaine won Golden Globe Awards for their performances.

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