Perfectly adorable

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Blistering performances.

Luckily she's much younger here.This show is not bad, not bad at all. It has some eye candy AND while it's no French tickler, it's more fun than getting the pimp-hand.Irma is worth seeing but I can't watch this more frequently than every 7 - 10 years.

Nestor Patou (Jack Lemmon) is a by-the-book cop. He used to police a children's park. After rescuing a child, he's transferred to the prostitute-filled Paris streets. He is taken with Irma La Douce (Shirley MacLaine) but is shocked to realize she's a prostitute. He calls in a raid on Hotel Casanova. It pulls in the wrong man and he is kicked off the force. He finds solace with Moustache (Lou Jacobi) who owns Chez Moustache. He wins in a fight against Irma's crude boyfriend Hippolyte. She takes him as her new boyfriend/pimp but he has a crazy plan to monopolize her time as new client British Lord X. He wears himself out earning enough money to pay her and keep up the pretense.The trio of Billy Wilder, Jack Lemmon, and Shirley MacLaine delivers a fun loopy love story. MacLaine is a real wildcat. Lemmon has the humanity and the madcap insanity. Two and a half hours is a long running time for a comedy. The second half feels a little long. I would have preferred Wilder figure a way to end this sooner.

Billy Wilder made brilliant films like Sunset Boulevard(1950) and Double Indemnity(44)and memorable films like Ace in the Hole(51)and Stalag 17(53) as well as the classic comedy Some Like It Hot(59)but, the films he made in the 60s: Kiss Me, Stupid(64), One, Two, Three(61), The Fortune Cookie(66)and The Apartment(60) don't compare with his best, and Irma la Douce(63) is one of his worst. A single idea spread out over a charm free 147 minutes minus the songs from the Broadway musical it's based on. It's a pace-less, pointless, plot less, plodding...but why go on and on like the movie. It was an enormous BO hit in its day and MacLaine received an Oscar nomination, but for the life of me I can't imagine why, and Lemon is one-note in a role Peter Sellars would have been all to perfect for.

I was enchanted by the stage musical comedy on which the film is based. I saw the stage production with fabulous long-legged dancer Juliette Prouse in the role of Irma. As I recall, it was done as a fantasy, with sets that were deliberately non-realistic, sort of cartoonish. In other words, nothing was meant to be taken too seriously, which was just the right tone for the story. Miss Prouse and the production were marvelous.When I saw the film version, I was very disappointed. Not only was it n longer a musical, it had lost all the lightheartedness of the original. Shirley MacLaine once was also a great dancer, making her mark in the stage production of Pajama Game in which she performed the dance for "Steam Heat" (choreographed by Bob Fosse) as the stand-in for Carol Haney who was injured. But there is no dance in the film version.If I hadn't seen the stage production first, perhaps I might have enjoyed the film version better.