Irma la Douce Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Irma la Douce Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Irma la Douce ([iÊ .ma la dus], "Irma the Sweet") is a 1963 American

romantic comedy film starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine,

directed by Billy Wilder. It is based on the 1956 French stage musical

Irma La Douce by Marguerite Monnot and Alexandre Breffort.Irma la

Douce tells the story of Nestor Patou (Jack Lemmon), an honest cop,

who after being transferred from the park Bois de Boulogne to a more

urban neighborhood in Paris, finds a street full of prostitutes

working at the Hotel Casanova and proceeds to raid the place. The

police inspector, who is Nestor's superior, and the other policemen,

have been aware of the prostitution, but tolerate it in exchange for

bribes. The inspector, a client of the prostitutes himself, fires

Nestor, who is accidentally framed for bribery.Kicked off the force

and humiliated, Nestor finds himself drawn to the very neighborhood

that ended his career with the Paris police - returning to Chez

Moustache, a popular hangout tavern for prostitutes and their pimps.

Down on his luck, Nestor befriends Irma La Douce (Shirley MacLaine), a

popular prostitute. He also reluctantly accepts, as a confidante, the

proprietor of Chez Moustache, a man known only as "Moustache." In a

running joke, Moustache (Lou Jacobi), a seemingly ordinary barkeeper,

tells of a storied prior life, claiming to have been, among other

things, an attorney, a colonel, and a doctor, ending with the repeated

line, "But that's another story". After Nestor defends Irma against

her abusive pimp, Hippolyte, Nestor moves in with her, and he soon

finds himself as Irma's new pimp.Jealous of the thought of Irma being

with other men, Nestor comes up with a plan to stop Irma's

prostitution. But he soon finds out that it is not all that it is

cracked up to be. Using a disguise, he invents an alter-ego, "Lord X",

a British lord, who "becomes" Irma's sole client. Nestor's plans to

keep Irma off the streets soon backfire, and she becomes suspicious,

since Nestor must work long and hard in the market at night to earn

the cash "Lord X" pays Irma. When Irma decides to leave Paris with the

fictitious Lord X, Nestor decides to end the charade. Unaware he is

being tailed by Hippolyte, he finds a secluded stretch along the river

Seine, and tosses his disguise into it. Hippolyte, not having seen

Nestor change his clothes, sees "Lord X"'s clothes floating in the

water, and concludes Nestor murdered him. Before Nestor is arrested,

Moustache advises him not to reveal that Lord X was a fabrication. He

tells him, "The jails are full of innocent people because they told

the truth." Nestor admits to having killed Lord X, but only because of

his love for Irma.
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