FAQ

The phrase "one, two, three" is sometimes used to mean that something should be done quickly, as in "Get this done, one, two, three!" It is appropriate for this very fast-paced comedy. James Cagney uses the phrase in this sense in the film and Horst Buchholz says it in German ("Eins, zwei, drei!")

He dismisses them with a bark that they are "for bandleaders."

Chicago Tribune, July 26, 1963:

LOOKING AT HOLLYWOOD

by Hedda Hopper

. . . . Lilo Pulver arrived today. In Billy Wilder's "One, Two, Three," she played a German girl who fooled the Russians. With Bob Hope she plays a Russian girl who fools him. A smart cookie, she owns several apartment houses in Munich. Lives in Switzerland.

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Lilo (Liselotte) Pulver is a Swiss actress (born 1929 in Bern); she was very successful during the 50s and 60s in German movies, mainly comedies ("Die Zürcher Verlobung" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051235/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 ; "Das Wirtshaus im Spessart" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051200/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_47 ; "Ich denke oft an Piroschka" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048193/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_54 ), but also in some international productions like Billy Wilder's "One, Two, Three" or Douglas Sirk's "A Time to Live and a Time to Die" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052296/?ref_=nm_knf_i2 or Jaques Rivettes "La religieuse" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060891/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_26 : She wrote her autobiograohy in 1977 and recorded several songs from her films for an album.