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Avanti! is a 1972 American/Italian international co-production comedy film produced and directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills.The screenplay by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is based on Samuel A. Taylor's play, which had a short run for the 1968 Broadway season. [1]
1972 The War Between Men and Women: Peter Edward Wilson Melville Shavelson: 1972 Avanti! Wendell Armbruster, Jr. Billy Wilder 1973 Save the Tiger: Harry Stoner John G. Avildsen: 1974 Killer Cop: Narrator Luciano Ercoli: Voice 1974 The Front Page: Hildebrand "Hildy" Johnson Billy Wilder 1975 Wednesday: Jerry Murphy Marvin Kupfer Short 1975
The War Between Men and Women is a 1972 American comedy-drama film directed by Melville Shavelson and starring Jack Lemmon, Barbara Harris, and Jason Robards. The film is based on the writings of humorist James Thurber, and was released by Cinema Center Films. It features animated cartoons interspersed in the story based on Thurber's works.
Whether playing a fastidious housemate, the father of a lost child in Pinochet’s Chile, or a social drinker descending into alcoholism, Lemmon gave enough memorable performances to forge an ...
Jun. 26—Throughout his varied and celebrated career, actor Jack Lemmon, who died 20 years ago Sunday, appeared in more than 60 films, including "Some Like It Hot," "Mister Roberts" and "Save the ...
The much-admired comedy Kotch (1971), the only film Lemmon directed, [12] starred Matthau, who was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar. The Out-of-Towners (1970) was another Neil Simon-scripted film in which Lemmon appeared. In 1972, at the 44th Academy Awards, Jack Lemmon presented the Honorary Academy Award to silent screen legend Charlie Chaplin.
The lattermost film starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon is considered one of the best comedies of all time. [16] [17] In 1960, he directed and co-wrote The Apartment, a romantic comedy about an insurance clerk who allows his coworkers to use his apartment to conduct extra-marital affairs, which starred Lemmon and Shirley ...
The funniest movie ever made about teenage girls with crushes on Richard Nixon, the cult comedy Dick crashed and burned at the box office in 1999, but ended up fulfilling its rightful destiny: to ...