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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.
Irma la Douce: Directed by Billy Wilder. With Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Lou Jacobi, Bruce Yarnell. When a policeman falls in love with a prostitute, he doesn't want her to see other men, so he creates an alter-ego who will be her only customer.
Irma la douce ( [iʁ.ma la dus], "Irma the Sweet") is a 1956 French musical with music by Marguerite Monnot and lyrics and book by Alexandre Breffort. The musical premiered in Paris in 1956, and was subsequently produced in the West End in 1958 and on Broadway, by David Merrick, in 1960.
Irma la Douce (1963) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
When a policeman falls in love with a prostitute, he doesn't want her to see other men, so he creates an alter-ego who will be her only customer. Naive, by-the-book French police officer Nestor Patou, is transferred to the Red Light district.
This entertaining comedy finds disgraced former police officer Nestor Patou (Jack Lemmon) falling for beautiful Parisian prostitute Irma La Douce (Shirley MacLaine).
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Irma La Douce (1963) -- (Movie Clip) Can I Take Your Stockings Off? Having bested her pimp in a comic fistfight, newly-fired ingenue policeman Nestor (Jack Lemmon) is invited by Shirley MacLaine (tite character) to her non-work Paris address, in Billy Wilder's Irma La Douce, 1963.
Meet Nestor (Lemmon), a young French policeman with a very complicated love life. To keep his beloved, the proud and profitable lady of the night Irma la Douce (MacLaine) off the streets, he disguises himself as Lord X, who immediately becomes Irma’s sole client and means of support.
Billy Wilder makes Paris into a bright, colorful toybox full of joy in “Irma la Douce.” Reuniting “The Apartment” pair of Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, “Irma” transposes the melancholic strivers to the streets around the legendary food market Mecca of Les Halles (now, tragically, a chain store shopping mall).
In 1961, she won the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical for her performance in the title role of Irma La Douce.
