TV Guide: Irma La Douce

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Starz — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Synopsis: An uptight policeman falls for Paris' most notorious prostitute. Directed by Billy Wilder. Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon.

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Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500

In Paris, an ex-cop falls in love with a prostitute, and tries to get her out of that life by paying for all of her time. Not so easy...

Video: Irma La Douce

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500

In Paris, an ex-cop falls in love with a prostitute, and tries to get her out of that life by paying for all of her time. Not so easy...

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TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500

A Parisian policeman (Jack Lemmon) gives up everything for the love of a prostitute (Shirley MacLaine) in Irma la Douce (1963).

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iTunes — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500

This romantic comedy opens with a resounding warning: its chief concerns are passion, bloodshed, desire, and death. "Everything," exclaims the narrator, "that makes life worth living." Irma La Douce (Shirley MacClaine) wise, endearing, and compulsively clad in green rules the rue Casanova as Paris' most prosperous prostitute. She exultantly works the most coveted corner as cops gladly look the other way and the naughty johns leave tips. Her street is a content community of live and let live and good-natured desire, an Augean stable of human understanding. However, to the area's new policeman, upright Nester Patou (Jack Lemmon), genial wrongdoing is still wrongdoing. Newly promoted from day patrol at a children's playground, the scrupulous Nestor arrests Irma and her colleagues in a bumbling, unauthorized raid. He takes pity on Irma, but harasses the guilty johns including the police captain. Promptly unemployed, Nester returns to the scene of his crime, the rue, and to Irma. Nester u