Directed by Billy Wilder
C.C. Baxter (Lemmon) works for a large insurance company in New York City. He loans out his apartment to executives at the company for short periods of time. They bring their "dates" to the apartment. He feels as if he can't say no to them when they ask him for the use of the apartment.
Things get complicated when Jeff Sheldrake (MacMurray) the head of his department asks to use Baxter's apartment. Fran Kubelik, the woman whom Sheldrake brings to the apartment also works for the insurance company. Baxter is also interested in her.
Kubelik agrees to go on a date with Baxter but then stands him up. Sheldrake is stringing her along. He has no plans to leave his wife and marry her. Kubelik tries to commit suicide while in Baxter's apartment just after Sheldrake leaves, on Christmas Eve.
Baxter comes home just in time to find her passed out with an empty bottle of his sleeping pills. He get Dr. Dreyfus, his neighbor, to help him revive her, get her to throw up. She survives.
Baxter and Kubelik wind up together in the end. I thought it was very convoluted and dated. Neither Baxter nor Kubelik seem to come to their senses until the end of the movie. They are both getting used by their superiors, Sheldrake in particular. It seems to be played for laughs but for the most part I didn't find it funny.
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