Project Author: David Mills
June 23, 2025
PRODUCTION COMPANIES:
The Mirisch Company, United Artists
The Apartment
Movie-wise, there has never been anything like it - laugh-wise, love-wise, or otherwise-wise!
Genre:
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Runtime:
125
Released:
1960
Rating:
8.2
Budget:
Box Office:
WRITERS
I. A. L. Diamond, Billy Wilder
FILM OVERVIEW
The Apartment
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he’s left with a major problem to solve.
DIRECTOR
Billy Wilder
GALLERY
PRODUCTION TEAM
Daniel Mandell (Editor)
Adolph Deutsch (Original Music Composer)
Allen K. Wood (Production Manager)
Don Stott (Gaffer)
Billy Wilder (Producer)
Edward G. Boyle (Set Decoration)
Milt Rice (Special Effects)
Billy Wilder (Director)
Joseph LaShelle (Director of Photography)
Harry Ray (Makeup Artist)
CAST MEMBERS
Jack Lemmon
Shirley MacLaine
Fred MacMurray
Ray Walston
Jack Kruschen
David Lewis
Hope Holiday
Joan Shawlee
Naomi Stevens
Johnny Seven
MORE PRODUCTION
Alexandre Trauner (Art Direction), I. A. L. Diamond (Screenplay), Billy Wilder (Screenplay), Alexandre Trauner (Production Design), Joe Palma (Stand In), Robert Martin (Boom Operator), Sid Sidney (Music Editor), Alice Monte (Hairstylist), Hal W. Polaire (Assistant Director), David Salven (Assistant Director), Del Harris (Sound Effects Editor), William Schurr (Camera Operator), John Williams (Orchestrator), Doane Harrison (Associate Producer), May Wale Brown (Script Supervisor), Tom Plews (Property Master), I. A. L. Diamond (Associate Producer), Forrest T. Butler (Costume Designer), Fred Lau (Sound Designer), Gordon Sawyer (Sound Designer), Miriam Nelson (Choreographer)
MORE CAST
Joyce Jameson, Willard Waterman, David White, Edie Adams, Dorothy Abbott, Ralph Moratz, Joe Palma, Bill Baldwin, Benny Burt, Lynn Cartwright, Mason Curry, David Macklin, Hal Smith, Paul Bradley, Steve Carruthers, Dick Cherney, Franklyn Farnum, Herschel Graham, Lars Hensen, Eugene Jackson, Frances Weintraub Lax, William Meader, Monty O’Grady, Paul Power, Tony Regan, Clark Ross, Norman Stevans, Sid Troy
