Jack Lemmon
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When Chicago musicians Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) accidentally witness a mob hit, they trade in their union suits for flapper frocks and hightail it down to Florida as the newest members of an all-girl jazz band, "Josephine" and "Daphne". Their cover is perfect...until a lovelorn singer (Marilyn Monroe) falls for "Josephine," and a mob boss refuses to fall for their hoax! Nominated for 7 Academy Awards®, "SOME LIKE IT HOT" is...
4) Avanti!
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In this hilarious romantic comedy from writer/director Billy Wilder and screenwriter I.A.L. Diamond, wealthy American Wendell Armbruster, Jr. (Jack Lemmon) discovers true love when he is summoned to Italy after a car accident claims the lives of his father and his father's secret mistress. As the mistress' daughter (Juliet Mills) also arrives in town, the bodies of both of their parents disappear, and the two instant foes are brought together in a...
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A successful syndicated cartoonist is dedicated to living the bachelor life, complete with a devoted English butler-valet-confidante...until he awakens one morning after a wild stag party, only to discover that he married the sexy, sensual Italian beauty who popped out of the cake and barely speaks English. What's more...she doesn't believe in divorce. Now, how does the ultimate bachelor get rid of her? With the perfect murder scheme, of course!
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Ambitious insurance clerk C.C. "Bud" Baxter (Jack Lemmon) attempts to climb the corporate ladder by loaning his apartment key to his superiors for their extramarital affairs, but the plan backfires when Bud unwittingly falls for the top executive's current girlfriend, Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine). Fred MacMurray co-stars in this Billy Wilder classic that would go on to win five Academy Awards® including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original...
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It started as just another assignment. Reporter Kimberly Wells and cameraman Richard Adams were covering the daily routine at an Los Angeles power plant when the unthinkable occurred: a nuclear accidnet that could have wiped out Southern California. And Richard caught it all on tape. When their TV station refuses to air the footage, Wells and Adams recruit plant supervisor Jack Godell to expose the terrifying truth: the facility is a ticking bomb....
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Academy Award winner Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood star in a slapstick farce about a 22,000-mile road race from New York to Paris set in 1908.Dastardly, black-garbed Dr. Fate (Lemmon) dares the world's greatest hero, The Great Leslie (Curtis), to the race across the Wild West, through frozen Alaska and into the Kingdom of Carpania. Fate sets a series of nefarious traps for Leslie, but neither plans on the indefatigable suffragette Maggie...
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Jack Lemmon plays Harry Stoner, a man caught in violent collision with his past and present life. He believes there is nothing significant in his life except survival, and that instinct pushes him beyond moral conduct. Winner of Best Actor in a Leading Role (Jack Lemmon) and nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Jack Gilford) and Best Adapted Screenplay at the **Academy Awards**. Nominated for Best Motion Picture - Drama, Best Supporting...
10) Irma la Douce
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Comedy about a young Parisian policeman and his romance with a prostitute.
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In her three decades of chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) research at Gombe in Africa, Jane Goodall has grown from a stranger to the chimp colony to their strongest ally. In this video, Goodall shares her personal story of triumphs and trials of leading a life in the wild. Includes footage of David Graybeard retrieving bananas, parenting by Flo, and an infant learning to catch termites with a grass tool.
15) Hamlet
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In this first-ever full-text film of William Shakespeare's work, the Prince of Denmark, Hamlet, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
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The real story behind the world of sales. This is a realistic portrayal of what it is to try making a life in high pressure sales with all its highs and lows; promises of fortunes and deliveries of dross. Red-leads and dead-leads are to blame for life's outcomes. Living with "Objection, Rebuttal, Close". **Academy Award** nominee. **Venice Film Festival** winner. Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival** and **Toronto International...
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Times are tough at the real estate firm of Premiere Properties. Shelley "the machine" Levene (Lemmon) and Dave Moss (Harris) are veteran salesmen, but only Ricky Roma (Pacino) is on a hot streak. The new Glengarry sales leads could turn everything around, but the front office is holding them back until these "losers" prove themselves. Then someone decides to take matters into his own hands, stealing the Glengarry leads and leaving everyone wondering...