The Apartment
- Original title
- The Apartment
- Year
- 1960
- Running time
- 125 min.
- Country
United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Jack Lemmon
- Shirley MacLaine
- Fred MacMurray
- Ray Walston
- Edie Adams
- Jack Kruschen
- Joan Shawlee
- Hope Holiday
- David Lewis
- Naomi Stevens
- Johnny Seven
- Joyce Jameson
- Willard Waterman
- David White
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- Music
- Cinematography
Joseph LaShelle (B&W)- Producer
- Genre
- Comedy. Romance. Drama | Comedy-Drama. Christmas. Cult Movie. New Year's Eve
- Synopsis
- C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) is an office clerk who curries favor with the executives in his office by giving them the key to his small apartment for the odd afternoon dalliance. Among them is his callous boss, J.D. Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray), who Baxter eventually learns is using his place to sleep with Miss Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine), the sweet elevator operator the clerk has loved from afar. When Sheldrake coldly dumps the vulnerable young woman, she tries to commit suicide, but is saved by the intervention of Baxter.
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- Awards
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1960: 5 Academy Awards: Best Movie, Director, Original Screenplay, Art Direction, Editing. 10 Nom.1960: 3 Golden Globes, including Best Movie - Comedy. 4 nominations1960: BAFTA Awards: Best Film, Foreign Actor and Foreign Actress1960: Directors Guild of America (DGA): Best Director1960: Writers Guild of America (WGA): Best Comedy Screenplay1960: Venice: Best Actress (Shirley MacLaine)
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