the best part in this whole movie was when one of the hookers had a sailor with her and he stopped outside the hotel cause he was listening to the radio...and the girl says "Come on sailor! Keep rowing!"
i about died. i thought that was the best line in the whole movie.
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Where have you seen this movie? I´m waiting to see it on TCM but they always show The Apartment instead?
sharei got it at my local library. maybe yours would have it too? just curious - do you like The Apartment? cause i thought it was one of the worst movies i have ever seen...what's the big deal about it?
sharewoah thats a first. maybe you should watch it again and believe its bad and then itll turn out to be a great movie! (I did the same thing with A Fish Called Wanda and it worked)
I borrowed Irma La Douce at my library after watching The Apartment cuz thats when I got hooked on Jack Lemmon. I've never seen a Lemmon movie on TCM except for It should happen to You
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Saw it at the movies as a teenager a year or so after it came out.
Very funny for the time. Loved Irma telling the other prostitutes about her games of 'double handed solitaire' with Lord X.
"I play a game with him. He used to play it with his wife, but she won't play any more."
I'm going to totally butcher this..
But at the beggining when they are talking about Mustache "When he bought the place, it was already named "The Mustache" so he grew a mustache, because it was much cheaper then changing the sign."
That was pretty much the best thing ever.
Lord X: Generous? Oh no, my dear. Just filthy rich!
Irma: Do you know how much he gave me?
Nestor: How would I know?
Moustache: Come on. Take a guess!
Nestor: Name, please?
Man #1: Jacques Casanova.
Nestor: Yours?
Man #2: Andre Casanova!
Nestor: I suppose you're Pierre Casanova?
Love this film.
Jack Lemmon: America's Sweetheart
"It's Magic Time"
"Being an honest man in a dishonest world is like plucking a chicken against the wind... you'll only wind up with a mouthful of feathers"...
ROTFLMAO!
"When I was first met you, I thought you were pretty. I was totally wrong. You're beautiful!"
I can relate. From Nestor's POV, not Irma's...
The fake Lord X is boasting to Irma about his exploits and sufferings in the service of Empire- throwing in everything he knows about Britain from movies, like losing his eye because of the guns of Navarone, his experience at the charge of the Light Brigade and other nonsense. Then he tells her he was under the Bridge of the River Kwai when it was blown up, and when they dug him out, he says he was "...half a man". The pitiful way Jack Lemmon' character delivers this line is something I have remembered with pleasure for some 40 years! Hilarious.
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"Life is total war my friend... nobody has a right to be a conscientious objector."
What you see is nothing. I got a Balinese dancing girl tattooed across my chest.
SPOILERS
When Lord X emerges from the water at the end and as the astonished police force ask him where he's been for the past nine months, he says seemingly confused "I haven't the foggiest. Except I seem to remember the climate being very wet".
Like a perfect english gentleman (:
"Love is illegal, but not hate. That you can do anywhere, anytime to anybody."
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I never make mistakes. Once I thought I did, but I was wrong.
Nestor: [about Irma's prostitution] At least you have one advantage -- at least you get indoors once in a while and off your feet! I'm sorry...
Marilyn Monroe: I don't want to be rich. I just want to be wonderful.
Another one:
- 500 francs? What'd ya have to do for it?
- Nothing.
- Oh, come on.
- He taught me a new game.
- What kind of game?
- He beat me nine times...
- That's more like it.