The sixties

Dois filmes encantadores e divertidos? Irma la Douce (1963) do genial Billy Wilder e Can can (1960) de Walter Lange (Moon over Miami de 1941, Mother wore tights de 1947, When my baby smiles at me de 1948, There’s no business like show business de 1954 e The king and I de 1956)
Em sua longa e brilhante carreira Billy Wilder dirigiu filmes memoráveis, dentre eles: Double indemnity (1944), Sunset Boulevard (1950), Sabrina (1954), The seven year itch (1955), Some like it hot (1959), The apartment (1960), The private life of Sherlock Holmes (1973).
Irma la Douce, baseado na peça musical de Alexandre Breffort, foi readaptado por Wilder, que privilegiou os diálogos rápidos e inteligentes e excluiu as músicas originais. Assim, a dupla Irma la douce (Shirley MacLaine) e Nestor Patou ou Lord X (Jack Lemmon) mantém a magia do filme. Para aumentar a diversão acrescente a personagem Moustache (Lou Jacobi), o bartender mais polivalente do planeta.
Dizem que devido ao enredo - policial honesto que se apaixona por prostituta - a filmagem teria sido acompanhada por um padre.
Em Can Can encontramos Maurice Chevalier (Paul Barriere), Louis Jourdan (o juiz Philipe Forrestier), Frank Sinatra (o advogado François Durnais) e a dona do Café, no qual a dança can can se torna proibida, Shirley MacLaine (Simone Pistache) que garante os momentos mais divertidos. Nesse filme o gênero musical prevalece, mas a confusão criada pelos personagens é tamanha, que agrada até aos mais resistentes.
O encanto adicional está nas músicas de Cole Porter
When the little bluebird

Who has never said a word

Starts to sing Spring

When the little bluebell
At the bottom of the dell

Starts to ring Ding dong Ding dong

When the little blue clerk

In the middle of his work

Starts a tune to the moon up above

It is nature that is all

Simply telling us to fall in love
And that's why birds do it, bees do it

Even educated fleas do it

Let's do it, let's fall in love
Cold Cape Cod clams, 'gainst their wish, do it

Even lazy jellyfish do it

Let's do it, let's fall in love
I've heard that lizards and frogs do itLayin' on a rock
They say that roosters do it

With a doodle and cock
Some Argentines, without means do it

I hear even Boston beans do it

Let's do it, let's fall in love
When the little bluebird

Who has never said a word

starts to sing Spring spring spring

When the little bluebell

At the bottom of the dell

Starts to ring Ding ding ding

When the little blue clerk

In the middle of his work

Starts a tune
The most refined lady bugs do it

When a gentleman calls

Moths in your rugs they do it

What's the use of moth balls
The chimpanzees in the zoos do it,

Some courageous kangaroos do it

Let's do it, let's fall in love
I'm sure sometimes on the sly you do it

Maybe even you and I might do it

Let's do it, let's fall in love