The Apartment - crew, film crew
The entire team, the film crew of the film "The Apartment"
The Apartment (1960)
Timing:
2:5 (125 min)
8.187/10
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2613
8.009/10
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8.3/10
218000
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Film crew
Director
Producer
Writer
Editor
Daniel Mandell
Editor
Art Direction
Alexandre Trauner
Art Direction
Production Design
Alexandre Trauner
Production Design
Set Decoration
Edward G. Boyle
Set Decoration
Makeup Artist
Harry Ray
Makeup Artist
Original Music Composer
Adolph Deutsch
Original Music Composer
Associate Producer
Orchestrator
Director of Photography
Camera Operator
William Schurr
Camera Operator
Sound Effects Editor
Del Harris
Sound Effects Editor
Property Master
Tom Plews
Property Master
Script Supervisor
May Wale Brown
Script Supervisor
Hairstylist
Alice Monte
Hairstylist
Production Manager
Allen K. Wood
Production Manager
Boom Operator
Robert Martin
Boom Operator
Costume Designer
Forrest T. Butler
Costume Designer
Screenplay
Sound Designer
Fred Lau
Sound Designer
Gordon Sawyer
Sound Designer
Special Effects
Milt Rice
Special Effects
Gaffer
Don Stott
Gaffer
Assistant Director
Hal W. Polaire
Assistant Director
David Salven
Assistant Director
Music Editor
Sid Sidney
Music Editor
Stand In
Joe Palma
Stand In
Sound
Fred Lau
Sound
Choreographer
What's left behind the scenes
- Marilyn Monroe wanted to star in the film, but did not get the role.
- To show a multitude of people working in a huge insurance company office, the following trick was devised: adult actors sat closest to the camera at desks, further away were children in adult costumes at specially made small tables, and even further away sat cardboard figures controlled by pulling on threads attached to them. This created the effect of a huge space filled with working people.
- The idea for this film originally came to Billy Wilder (1906-2002) after watching David Lean's (1908-1991) drama 'Brief Encounter' (1945), when he wondered about a man who rents out his apartment for such extramarital affairs. Shirley MacLaine, who played the role of Fran, was given only the first 40 pages of the script so that she would not know the ending in advance. The actress herself thought at the time that the script was not yet finished.
- Film critics in the socialist countries called this film an indictment of the American system and said that such a thing was only possible in a capitalist city like New York. At a dinner in honor of the film in East Berlin, Wilder stated that this story 'could happen anywhere – in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Rome, Paris, London' and could not happen only in Moscow. The East Germans erupted in applause. When the applause subsided, Wilder continued and said that it could not happen in Moscow because no resident there had their own apartment. This statement was met with complete silence.
- Jack Lemmon later recounted that he learned a lot about filmmaking specifically from Billy Wilder – in particular, the use of nuances that audiences remember long after they’ve forgotten the other details of the film. One such nuance is the apartment key. According to the actor, many years after the film's release, people would approach him saying, “Jack, lend me the keys.”
- Billy Wilder and screenwriter I.A.L. Diamond (1920-1988) did not allow for any deviations from the script whatsoever. Shirley MacLaine simply irritated them by constantly departing from it. One scene in the elevator had to be shot five times solely because she kept forgetting to say one word.
- The film’s final, now-classic line was conceived at the last moment, right on the set.
- The film's idea was partially based on a Hollywood scandal when, in 1951, producer Walter Wanger (1894-1968) shot Jennings Lang (1915-1996) over an affair with his wife, actress Joan Bennett (1910-1990). During his affair with Bennett, Lang used the apartment of one of his subordinates. Another plot element was also taken from life: a friend of I.A.L. Diamond once had a falling out with a girlfriend, and then one day returned home to find her had committed suicide in his bed.
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