Irma la Douce (1963)

Directed by

Billy Wilder

Genre

comedy film, romantic comedy

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 15m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 481 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1960s Paris, a policeman falls for a prostitute and tries to become her only client. He ends up in a series of comic disguises and mistaken identities to keep her from other men.

lightheartedcomicalromanticplayfulbreezywhimsicalcity-coded

What happens

Irma la Douce (French: [iʁ.ma la dus], "Irma the Sweet") is a 1963 American romantic comedy film directed by Billy Wilder from a screenplay he co-wrote with I. A. L. Diamond, based on the 1956 French stage musical of the same name by Marguerite Monnot and Alexandre Breffort. However, Wilder removed all the songs from the stage version; so while the film is based on a musical, it is not a musical. The film stars Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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