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Additional Crew: Irma la Douce. Edward R. Alperson was an ambitious 39-year old manager of a film exchange when he decided to organize a new studio he called Grand National in 1936. The company headquartered in New York City with the First Division Picture Exchange as it's distribution arm and received a tremendous boost when Warner Brothers' prime star, James Cagney, walked over long standing ...
The CastIRMA LA DOUCE, screenplay by Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond, based on the play by Alexandre Breffort. Produced and directed by Mr. Wilder; a Mirisch Company and Edward L. Alperson ...
In IRMA LA DOUCE (1963), the world of a Parisian prostitute was lovingly painted in Technicolor tones. In Kiss Me, Stupid (1964), Wilder finally stepped over the line with the story of a struggling composer willing to offer his wife to sell a song.The film, which seems so innocent today, was scandalous in its own day.
- Billy Wilder, Hal Polaire
- Jack Lemmon
The controversy herein resulting in a declaratory relief action arose out of different constructions given by the parties to certain written agreements dealing with the then proposed motion picture photoplay IRMA LA DOUCE. Plaintiff Alperson had negotiated with others for the acquisition of motion picture and television rights to the play ...
Finishing with Fox after September Storm (1960), Alperson acquired distribution rights to a pair of Japanese science-fiction films, The Last War and The Human Vapor. He later (1963) acquired the film rights to director Billy Wilder's Irma La Douce—his last project of note—for Mirisch Productions but without the music. Alperson had made an ...
Edward L. Alperson. Additional Crew: Irma la Douce. Edward R. Alperson was an ambitious 39-year old manager of a film exchange when he decided to organize a new studio he called Grand National in 1936. The company headquartered in New York City with the First Division Picture Exchange as it's distribution arm and received a tremendous boost when Warner Brothers' prime star, James Cagney ...
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Irma la Douce takes place in Paris and focuses on a seedy but settled area of the city inhabited by prostitutes, pimps and paid off police officers. Our title character is a prostitute who, through a series of unlikely events, falls mutually in love with a recently fired police officer who winds up becoming her pimp.
