Welcome to the sister article to Comedy Clicks! Each week, we will be taking an in depth look at some of the best comedy films that the world of cinema can offer! Today we will be looking at The Apartment

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About the Film

Summary of Plot

A Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.

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Year Of Release

1960

Running Time

2 Hours 5 Minutes

Director

Billy Wilder

Tagline

Movie-wise, there has never been anything like “THE APARTMENT” love-wise, laugh-wise or otherwise-wise!

Gross Worldwide

$18,778,738

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Trailer

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Starring

Jack Lemmon – CC Baxter
Shirley MacLaine – Fran Kubelik
Fred MacMurray – Jeff D Sheldrake
Ray Walston – Joe Dobisch

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Song From the OST

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Trivia

• , Billy Wilder became the first person to win the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay.
• The office Christmas party scene was actually filmed on December 23, 1959, so as to catch everybody in the proper holiday mood.
• Billy Wilder gave Jack Lemmon free rein to fill in the character of C.C. “Bud” Baxter in performance. He compared the actor favorably to Charles Chaplin and thought he could do no wrong.
• The $100 cash Christmas gift is equivalent to $950 in 2022.
• The film’s classic last line was thought up by the writers at the last minute on-set.

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