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1 2 4 P E R S P E C T I V E | J U L Y / A U G U S T 2 0 2 2 RESHOOTS B Y N I K K I R U D L O F F, A S S O C I AT E E D I T O R S E L E C T I O N S F R O M T H E A D G A R C H I V E S CO U RT E SY O F T H E A D G CO L L E C T I O N S AT T H E M A R GA R E T H E R R I C K L I B RA RY, A . M . P. A . S . A. ILLUSTRATION OF PEOPLE WALKING ON A PARIS STREET. BY HAROLD MICHELSON. Irma La Douce (1963) is a romantic comedy about a wrongfully disgraced former policeman, Nestor (Jack Lemmon), who falls in love with a prostitute, Irma (Shirley MacLaine). Nestor doesn't want Irma seeing other men, so he cooks up a scheme with an alter-ego, who will be her only customer. It, of course, does not go smoothly, but in the end, everything works out. The Production Designer was Alexandre Trauner. Alexandre studyed painting at The Hungarian Royal Drawing School, then emigrated to Paris in 1929, where he got into the film industry. In Paris, he worked on such films as À nous la liberté (32), La Kermesse héroïque (35), Quai des brumes (38), Le Jour se lève (39), and Les Enfants du paradis (45). After the war he worked in ollywood on films like The Apartment (60), The Man Who Would Be King (75), Goodbye Again (61) and Witness for the Prosecution (57). The above illustration was developed by Harold Michelson for the movie. After WWII, where he was a bombardier-navigator in the U.S. Air Force, Harold worked as a magazine illustrator while attending the Art Students League of New York. He then moved to Los Angeles and started as an Illustrator for movie posters but soon started working as a Illustrator and storyboard artist for classic films like The Ten Commandments (56), Ben-Hur (59), Spartacus (60), West Side Story (61), Cleopatra (63), The Birds (63), Marnie (64), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (66), The Graduate (67) and Fiddler on the Roof (71). Harold later became an Art Director and Production Designer. Some may know him from the documentary Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story. A