Factual error: Fran the elevator operator stops on the 19th floor and takes Baxter to the 27th floor. But when they arrive on 27 (and the entire time they're supposedly ascending to it), the light for the 19th floor on the elevator's control panel remains lit.
The Apartment (1960)
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Directed by: Billy Wilder
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Jack Lemmon, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston
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Trivia: The last black and white movie to win the Best Picture Oscar, until The Artist in 2011.
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