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Irma la Douce Overview:

Irma la Douce (1963) was a Comedy - Romance Film directed by Billy Wilder and produced by Billy Wilder, Edward L. Alperson, I.A.L. Diamond, Doane Harrison and Alexandre Trauner.

SYNOPSIS

Wilder took away the music from the Broadway production, but left the heart. It's all MacLaine's show as the happy-go-lucky hooker who snares gendarme Lemmon's heart when he cleans out a red-light district bordello. Adult comedy with Wilder's bawdy sensibility.

(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).

Academy Awards 1963 --- Ceremony Number 36 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best ActressShirley MacLaineNominated
Best CinematographyJoseph LaShelleNominated
Best Music - ScoringAndre PrevinWon
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Irma la Douce BlogHub Articles:

Billy Wilder's Irma la Douce

By Rick29 on May 20, 2019 From Classic Film & TV Cafe

Irma and her dog Coquette. After ill-advisedly arresting eighteen Parisian prostitutes, the well-meaning Nestor Patou (Jack Lemmon) is fired from his job as a policeman. He takes an interest in one of the streetwalkers, Irma la Douce (Shirley MacLaine), and defends her honor when her "manager" star... Read full article

Irma la Douce (1963)

By Lê on Jun 22, 2014 From Critica Retro

Irma la Douce (1963) Amado por quase todos os fãs de cinema que têm bom gosto, Billy Wilder foi um diretor de grandes obras e grandes parcerias. Minha parceria favorita é a de Wilder com Jack Lemmon, que rendeu comédias inesquecíveis. Talvez “Irma la Douce” seja a mais esquec... Read full article

Irma la Douce (1963)

By Lê on Jun 22, 2014 From Critica Retro

Irma la Douce (1963) Amado por quase todos os fãs de cinema que têm bom gosto, Billy Wilder foi um diretor de grandes obras e grandes parcerias. Minha parceria favorita é a de Wilder com Jack Lemmon, que rendeu comédias inesquecíveis. Talvez “Irma la Douce” seja a mais esquec... Read full article

Irma la Douce (1963)

By Lê on Nov 30, -0001 From Critica Retro

Irma la Douce (1963) Amado por quase todos os fãs de cinema que têm bom gosto, Billy Wilder foi um diretor de grandes obras e grandes parcerias. Minha parceria favorita é a de Wilder com Jack Lemmon, que rendeu comédias inesquecíveis. Talvez “Irma la Douce” seja a mais esquec... Read full article

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Irma la Douce Quotes:

Irma La Douce: I once used to know a specialist, used to send some of his patients to me. All they needed was a little push.
Irma La Douce: This is not just a job, it's a profession.
Nestor Patou: Now I'm mad. Now I'm really mad. And when I'm mad, I'm like a tiger!
Irma La Douce: You know, I'm sort of glad about that girl in Dijon, with the cough.
Nestor Patou: You are?
Irma La Douce: Because frankly, in the police van I thought that you'd never in your life, uh...
Nestor Patou: Oh, she wasn't the only girl. I've had more than one girl.
Irma La Douce: How many?
Nestor Patou: Altogether? Oh, let me see...
Irma La Douce: Three?
Nestor Patou: Not as many as that.
Irma La Douce: Who wants to be a stray dog? You got to belong to someone, even if he kicks you once in a while.
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Irma la Douce Facts
Had director Billy Wilder succeeded in getting the cast he wanted, Charles Laughton would have played barkeeper Moustache and Marilyn Monroe would have played streetwalker Irma. Years earlier Laughton and Monroe did appear on screen together in Full House, with Monroe playing a streetwalker.
Charles Laughton was director-writer Billy Wilder's first choice to play the character of Moustache in Irma la Douce (1963). Laughton, who had given an Oscar-nominated lead performance under Wilder's direction in Witness for the Prosecution, agreed to play the role, but died before principal photography commenced.
Billy Wilder loved Marilyn Monroe's performance in Some Like It Hot and wanted her for this role but she died before production started.
Throughout the film there are two small cars that go back and forth and are indeed the only two cars that appear in the film - one of the cars is a '53 Renault, the other seems to be a Peugeot.
The sprawling $350,000 Rue Casanova set took three months to build and included 48 buildings and three converging streets.
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