Posts Tagged ‘Shirley MacLaine’

This multi-faceted comedy is a great watch. Directed by a champion of Golden Age filmmaking, Billy Wilder, a melancholic fog provides the underlay to this comedic structure, confronting the topics of extra-marital affairs, suicide and manipulation. C.C Baxter, played by Jack Lemmon is a straight-laced, motivated office worker, who in his ambitious naiveté lets out…