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'''C.C. Baxter''': No, sir, it's very unfair... Especially to your wife.}}
The [[Academy Award|Oscar-winner]] for Best Picture of 1960, '''''The Apartment''''' stars [[Jack Lemmon]] and [[Shirley MacLaine]], and was directed, produced, and co-written by [[Billy Wilder]].
A lowly office drone, C.C. "Bud" Baxter, has just found the solution to getting up the corporate food chain: let the corporate bigwigs use his apartment for their extramarital affairs. His boss, J.D. Sheldrake finds out, and promotes Baxter on the condition that he lets him use the apartment for his own affair. Naturally, Baxter accepts the condition, but he reconsiders when he finds out his crush, Fran Kubelik, is Sheldrake's other woman. Things turn very complicated when he finds her close to death on his bed.
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* [[Academy Award]]▼
* [[Better Living Through Evil]]: What Sheldrake gives Baxter.
* [[Bungled Suicide]]: Baxter tells Miss Kubelik he attempted suicide once, and ended up accidentally shooting himself in the knee.
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* [[Race For Your Love]]: In the end, Miss Kubelik {{spoiler|leaves Sheldrake on New Year's Eve and runs to Baxter's apartment}}.
* [[Santa Claus]]: Calls in at the bar where Baxter is drowning his sorrows, but his cheerful wisecracking is no match for the glum stare that Baxter gives him. At the end of the night we see Santa himself sitting morosely at the bar, all alone. So much for Christmas in New York!
* [[Screen to Stage Adaptation]]: Adapted as the Broadway [[Musical]] ''[[Promises, Promises]]'', with a book by [[Neil Simon]], music by [[Burt Bacharach]] and lyrics by [[Hal David]].
* [[Shout-Out]]: The shot where the camera swoops in to find Baxter at one in a sea of desks is a Shout Out to King Vidor's 1928 silent classic, ''[[The Crowd]]''.
** Trying to schedule a tryst with one of the company switchboard operators, one of the bosses suggests they meet at the apartment on Thursday night. "Thursday? But that's ''[[The Untouchables]]'' with Bob Stack!"
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** The [[Tagline]] on the movie's original poster: "Movie-wise, there has never been anything like ''The Apartment'' love-wise, laugh-wise, or otherwise-wise!"
** Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond's screenplay ends thusly, following Miss Kubelik's "Shut up and deal" line:
{{quote|"Bud begins to deal, never taking his eyes off her. Fran removes her coat, starts picking up her cards and arranging them. Bud, a look of pure joy on his face, deals
And that's about it. Story-wise."}}
* [[Yiddish as a Second Language]]: Dr. Dreyfuss encourages Baxter to "be a ''mensch''", while Mrs. Lieberman opines that the bad weather "must be from all that ''mishegass'' at Cape Canaveral".
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{{BAFTA Best Film}}
{{Golden Globe Award Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy}}
{{AFI's 100 Years 100 Laughs}}
[[Category:Films of the 1960s]]▼
[[Category:Roger Ebert Great Movies List]]
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[[Category:National Film Registry]]
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