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Two answers required. In one film, these two actors frequent a bar whose regulars include a prostitute with heart-shaped glasses named Lolita and a union of pimps who call themselves the MPPA. One of these actors tells the other he met his wife “in Spain, in the rain, on the plain” while disguised as an English lord with an eyepatch and a passion for solitaire. One of these actors sprints up the stairs upon mistaking the sound of the other popping champagne for a single (*) gunshot. One of these actors (10[1])is fired from the Paris police for raiding the other’s love hotel in Irma la Douce. (10[1])One of these actors tells the other “shut up and deal” in a film in which she operates an elevator at Consolidated Life. For 10 points, Billy Wilder directed what two leads in The Apartment? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon [or Shirley MacLean Beaty and John Uhler Lemmon III]
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