Theme From THE APARTMENT (1960) Vintage Movie Sheet Music WILDER/LEMMON/MACLAINE

Description: Vintage sheet music for the hit song "Theme From The Apartment" by Charles Williams (originally titled "Jealous Lover.") The film starred Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine & Fred MacMurray, and was directed by Billy Wilder (Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd., Stalag 17, Sabrina, The Seven Year Itch, Some Like It Hot.) See my store in case I still have more vintage sheet music, and buy multiple titles to save on shipping! For multiple purchases, avoid the "Buy It Now" option. Instead, choose "Add To Cart" for each item, then go to your cart and click on the button to request an invoice. Safely packed and shipped via USPS Book Rate. If you prefer a faster method, just let me know, and I can update your order before you pay. From Wikipedia: The Apartment is a 1960 American romantic comedy-drama film directed and produced by Billy Wilder from a screenplay he co-wrote with I. A. L. Diamond. It stars Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, David Lewis, Willard Waterman, David White, Hope Holiday and Edie Adams. The film follows an insurance clerk (Lemmon) who, in the hope of climbing the corporate ladder, lets more senior coworkers use his Upper West Side apartment to conduct extramarital affairs. He is attracted to an elevator operator (MacLaine) in his office building, unaware that she is having an affair with his immediate boss (MacMurray). The Apartment was distributed by United Artists to widespread critical acclaim and was a commercial success, despite controversy owing to its subject matter. It became the 8th highest grossing film of 1960. At the 33rd Academy Awards, the film was nominated for ten awards, and won five, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay. Lemmon, MacLaine and Kruschen were Oscar-nominated. Lemmon and MacLaine won Golden Globe Awards for their performances. It provided the basis for Promises, Promises, a 1968 Broadway musical by Burt Bacharach, Hal David and Neil Simon. Ever since its release, The Apartment has come to be regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, appearing in lists by the American Film Institute and Sight and Sound magazine. In 1994, it was one of the 25 films selected for inclusion to the United States Library of Congress National Film Registry. From IMDB: * To create the effect of a vast sea of faces labouring grimly and impersonally at their desks in the huge insurance company office, designers Alexandre Trauner and Edward G. Boyle devised an interesting technique. Full-sized actors sat at the desks in the front and children dressed in suits were used at tiny desks toward the rear, followed by even smaller desks with cut-out figures operated by wires. It gave the effect of a much larger space than could have been achieved in the limited studio space. * Billy Wilder originally thought of the idea for the film after seeing Brief Encounter (1945) and wondering about the plight of a character unseen in that film -- the person who lends his apartment for an extramarital tryst. Shirley MacLaine was only given forty pages of the script because Wilder didn't want her to know how the story would turn out. She thought it was because the script wasn't finished. * For this film, Billy Wilder became the first person to win the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay. * The office Christmas party scene was actually filmed on December 23, 1959, so as to catch everybody in the proper holiday mood. Billy Wilder filmed almost all of it on the first take, stating to an observer, "I wish it were always this easy. Today, I can just shout 'action' and stand back."

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End Time: 2025-01-13T05:25:00.000Z

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