Irma la Douce

Irma la Douce has a delightfully farcical premise, a plotline that one would expect could only yield gold in the hands of a proven comic genius like Billy Wilder, whose One, Two, Three and The Apartment are among the greatest bittersweet gems of classic Hollywood comedy. Irma (Shirley MacLaine) is a Parisian prostitute who falls in with the naïve cop Nestor (Jack Lemmon) after he's kicked off