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Feb 2, 2022 · Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine strike up a romance in The Apartment, but Billy Wilder doesn't give us the usual schmaltz when it comes to the ending.
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Jun 21, 2022 · After C.C. Baxter professes his deep love and affection for Fran Kubelik, MacLaine gets to deliver one of the greatest final lines in the history of cinema, "Shut up and deal."
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- Fran Kubelik
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On November 1, 1959, the population of New York City was 8,042,783. If you laid all these people end to end, figuring an average height of five feet six and a half inches, they would reach from Tim...As for myself, I very often stay on at the office and work for an extra hour or two, especially when the weather is bad. It's not that I'm overly ambitious, it's just a way of killing time, until i...Y'know, I used to live like Robinson Crusoe. I mean shipwrecked among 8 million people. And then one day I saw a footprint in the sand and there you were.How could I be so stupid? You would think I should have learned by now. When you're in love with a married man you shouldn't wear mascara.Why do people have to love people anyway?Some people take, some people get took. And they know they're getting took and there's nothing they can do about it.I wonder how long it takes to get someone you're stuck on out of your system. They should invent a pump for that.Fran: I never catch colds.Bud: 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: That makes me feel just terrible.Bud: Why?Fran: Well, to make the figures come out even, if I have no colds a year, some poor slob must have five colds a year.Bud: [sheepishly]Yeah... it's me.The Apartment quotes at the Internet Movie DatabaseThe Apartment at Rotten TomatoesJul 22, 2001 · There is a wonderful, wicked, delicacy in the way Wilder handles the final scene, and finds the right tender-tough note in the last lines of the screenplay. (“Shut up and deal” would become almost as famous as “nobody's perfect,” the immortal closing lines of “Some Like it Hot.”)
Shut up and deal. Story Circle | Outline View. Click for enlarged graphic in new window. Jack Lemmon stars as C.C. Baxter, a low-level employee at a giant insurance company in New York.
Jun 21, 2010 · Shut up and deal. by. May, Jesse. Publication date. 1998. Topics. Poker players, Gambling, Fortune. Publisher. New York : Anchor Books.
Jun 13, 2009 · Movie Moments - The Apartment - shut up and deal. the end of the movie - Lemmon and MacLaine at their best - note how she asks about his knee - they care for each other - sweet ...more.
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