Kubelik

And this even in a purely technical way: I can recall Kubelik playing Paganini as a wonderful display of the

Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers Frederick Herman Martens 1903

Lemmon's character is a bachelor in need of a spaghetti strainer and Miss Kubelik is a young woman in need of him.

Vivian Norris: Why We Need Shirley MacLaine, and Billy Wilder's The Apartment More Now than Ever Vivian Norris 2011

The drab, ordinary building where Jack Lemmon's character lives in the infamous Apartment is full of wonderful, warm, big-hearted immigrants, a doctor, his caring wife who feeds and supports Miss Kubelik when she is down and out.

Vivian Norris: Why We Need Shirley MacLaine, and Billy Wilder's The Apartment More Now than Ever Vivian Norris 2011

The two worlds in which Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine's characters, C.C. Baxter and Miss Kubelik, live are juxtaposed beautifully, comically, yet with an ever-present melancholy.

Vivian Norris: Why We Need Shirley MacLaine, and Billy Wilder's The Apartment More Now than Ever Vivian Norris 2011

Miss Kubelik says "No" to the lies and deceitful ways of her lover, and, symbolically, at the New Year, leaves the executive schmuck for good.

Vivian Norris: Why We Need Shirley MacLaine, and Billy Wilder's The Apartment More Now than Ever Vivian Norris 2011

Miss Kubelik is an elevator operator, having failed the typing exam, and is a good girl, but one who has naively fallen for a Narcissistic all-American executive, wonderfully portrayed by Fred MacMurray, who believes his own game to such an extent that one wonders if he even has a heart at all.

Vivian Norris: Why We Need Shirley MacLaine, and Billy Wilder's The Apartment More Now than Ever Vivian Norris 2011

Programming note: Loving Miss Kubelik, absolutely adoring her

Lance Mannion: 2008

Miss Kubelik: Well, to make the figures come out even, if I have no colds a year, some poor slob must have five colds a year.

Lance Mannion: 2008

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Programming note: Loving Miss Kubelik, absolutely adoring her 2008

What could be more chaste than Baxter and his paramour Fran Kubelik (Kristen Chenoweth) at the end playing board games in the apartment?

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