June 15, 1960 –
The Apartment, starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, opened in New York on this date. This was the follow-up film to Billy Wilder’s smash hit Some Like It Hot.
Billy Wilder originally thought of the idea for the film after seeing Brief Encounter and wondering about the plight of a character unseen in that film — the person who lends his apartment for an extramarital tryst. Shirley MacLaine was only given forty pages of the script because Wilder didn’t want her to know how the story would turn out. She thought it was because the script wasn’t finished.
The Haus of Dcaligari 