The Apartment
Comedy, Romance
MGM / UA  (1960) 125 mins NR

8.4 (27,505 votes) Top 250: #88
"Gleeful! Ingenious! A smashing good comedy!" -The New York Times

Winner of five 1960 Academy Awards® including Best Picture, The Apartment is legendary writer/director Billy Wilder at his scathing, satirical best, and one of the "finest comedies Hollywood has turned out" (Newsweek).

C.C. "Bud" Baxter (Jack Lemmon) knows the way to success in business… it's through the door of his apartment! By providing a perfect hideaway for philandering bosses, the ambitious young employee reaps a series of undeserved promotions. But when Bud lends the key to big boss J.D. Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray), he not only advances his career, but his own love life as well. For Sheldrake's mistress is the lovely Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine), elevator girl and angel of Bud's dreams. Convinced that he is the only man for Fran, Bud must make the most important exe...

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Cast and Crew
Jack Lemmon  ......  C.C. 'Bud' Baxter
Shirley MacLaine  ......  Fran Kubelik
Fred MacMurray  ......  Jeff D. Sheldrake
Edie Adams  ...... 
Hope Holiday  ......  Mrs. Margie MacDougall
Joan Shawlee  ......  Sylvia
Director  .....  Billy Wilder
Producer  .....  Billy Wilder; I.A.L. Diamond; Doane Harrison
Writer  .....  Billy Wilder; I.A.L. Diamond
Notes
Goofs:
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): At the very end of the film, Baxter and Fran sit down to play a game of Gin. This game is played with 10 cards dealt to each player, but Baxter deals at least 13 cards to both Fran and himself before the picture finally fades out. (more)

Trivia:
Billy Wilder also used the character name Sheldrake in Sunset Blvd. (1950), Ace in the Hole (1951), and Kiss Me, Stupid (1964). (more)

Filming Locations:
205 Columbus Avenue, New York City, New York, USA (more)

Quotes:
Fran Kubelik: I never catch colds.
C.C. Baxter: Really. I was reading some figures from the Sickness and Accident Claims Division. You know that the average New Yorker between the ages of twenty and fifty has two and a half colds a year.
Fran Kubelik: That makes me feel just terrible.
C.C. Baxter: Why?
Fran Kubelik: Well, to make the figures come out even, if I have no colds a year, some poor slob must have five colds a year.
C.C. Baxter: [sheepishly] Yeah... it's me.
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Awards:
Won 5 Oscars. Another 17 wins & 8 nominations (more)