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  2. This entertaining comedy finds disgraced former police officer Nestor Patou (Jack Lemmon) falling for beautiful Parisian prostitute Irma La Douce (Shirley MacLaine). Though Nestor becomes Irma's...

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    • Shirley Maclaine
    • Billy Wilder
    • Comedy
  3. TOP CRITIC. Set mainly in a bawdy-house that is never in the least bawdy, Billy Wilder's Irma La Douce is the kind of fantasy much favoured by Hollywood -- a sex comedy from which sex has...

  4. Billy Wilder’s 1963 romantic comedy, Irma la Douce, is perhaps yet another property that would go on the politically correct list of Movies That Couldn’t Be Made Today. The times were certainly different in the early 60s regarding the relationships between the sexes.

  5. Adapted from Alexandre Breffort's stage musical, Irma la Douce in film form turns into something of a roller-coaster ride. Even allowing for the absence of the songs (a major gripe with purists), the film is far too bloated to really achieve the heights of being a great comedy classic.

  6. 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.

  7. www.metacritic.com › movie › irma-la-douceIrma la Douce - Metacritic

    2 h 27 m. Summary When a policeman falls in love with a prostitute, he doesn't want her seeing other men and creates an alter ego who's to be her only customer. Comedy. Romance. Directed By: Billy Wilder. Written By: Alexandre Breffort, Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond.

  8. Oct 24, 2018 · Pushing the boundaries of bourgeois morality with a mix of ribald suggestion and fairy-tale innocence, Irma la Douce was a big hit that earned MacLaine an Oscar nomination. Presented with a new 4K scan, extras include separate audio commentary tracks from film historians Joseph McBride and Kat Ellinger.

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