The Apartment – Premium Hollywood https://www.premiumhollywood.com Entertainment blog, Hollywood blog, movie blog, TV blog Fri, 24 Dec 2010 16:36:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.10 Christmas eve movie moment #1: “The Apartment” https://www.premiumhollywood.com/2010/12/24/christmas-eve-movie-moment-1-the-apartment/ Fri, 24 Dec 2010 16:36:45 +0000 https://www.premiumhollywood.com/?p=32623 This one’s for all you lonely folks out there, though please drink plenty of water and have cab fair ready should you attempt the 1960 behavior seen below as C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmons) waits out some not entirely welcome guests and briefly makes a new friend.

Katie Fineran won a Tony on Broadway for playing the equivalent role in the musical adaptation of the Billy Wilder-I.A.L. Diamond screenplay for “The Apartment,” “Promises, Promises” and I understand through friends who’ve seen the show that it was well deserved. Even so, the evocatively named Hope Holiday does a pretty bang-up job here as well as Mrs. Margie MacDougal.

]]> Hard days at the office #2: Buddy boy learns the unpleasant truth https://www.premiumhollywood.com/2010/09/04/hard-days-at-the-office-2-buddy-boy-learns-the-unpleasant-truth/ Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:00:16 +0000 https://www.premiumhollywood.com/?p=28209 As our Labor Day weekend continues, we have a couple of scenes from Billy Wilder’s “The Apartment” — watch them in order — covering the ups-and-downs of corporate office pimpery.

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