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One, Two, Three Overview:

One, Two, Three (1961) was a Comedy - Black-and-white Film directed by Billy Wilder and produced by Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond and Doane Harrison.

SYNOPSIS

Yet another great Wilder effort (he also wrote the blistering screenplay with longtime collaborator Diamond), this time a sprinting comedy of clashing ideologies subverted by love. Cagney's last film finds him as a fast-talking, hard-driving head of the German branch of Coca-Cola. Worlds collide as he volunteers to babysit Tiffin, the teenage daughter of a Coke executive from the home office. He loses her, then finds her in love with East German communist beatnik, Buchholtz. Cagney frames him to get him away from Tiffin, then discovers that he and Tiffin are not just married, but expecting. Cagney rescues the kid, but then loses his job to the reformed communist. Notable score by Previn.

(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion)

Academy Awards 1961 --- Ceremony Number 34 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best CinematographyDaniel L. FappNominated
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Quotes from One, Two, Three:

C.R. MacNamara: Ten minutes early! That's a hell of a way to run an airline! Planes are supposed to be late, not early!
C.R. MacNamara: [Scarlet takes off Otto's cap, revealing his shaggy, disheveled hair] He could use a haircut... and I'd like to give it to him myself with a hammer and sickle.
C.R. MacNamara: The only thing I want from you, Scarlett Piffl, is silence. And very little of it!
Otto: Das ist eine Kuckucksuhr!
C.R. MacNamara: You've defected?
Peripetchikoff: Is old Russian proverb: "go west young man."
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Facts from One, Two, Three
Joan Crawford (then on the board of PepsiCo) telephoned director Billy Wilder to protest the movie's Coca-Cola connection. Wilder then added a final scene in which James Cagney buys four bottles of Coke from a vending machine. The last bottle out of the machine isn't Coke - but another brand... of Pepsi.
The building of the Berlin Wall during production badly hurt the film's marketing in Germany. It was very ill-received by German audiences and had minimal success during its initial run.
The combination to the safe in C.R. MacNamara's office is 22-5-17. This is revealed when MacNamara's demands their children's and her passports to return to the United States.
The building of the Berlin Wall had begun in the night of August 13, 1961, right through the set at the Brandenburger Tor. The team, discovering the change in the morning, had to move to Munich to shoot the missing scenes on the parking lot of the Bavaria Film Studios, where a copy of the lower half of the Brandenburger Tor had to be built.
In addition to the "Yes, We Have No Bananas" song, Billy Wilder also borrowed the climactic switcheroo from Sabrina right down to the hat and umbrella. Piffl goes to London instead of MacNamara, just as Linus Larrabee goes to Paris instead of David Larrabee.
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