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    Billy Wilder (/ˈwaɪldər/; German: [ˈvɪldɐ]; born Samuel Wilder; June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-born filmmaker and screenwriter. His career...
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    Billy Wilder (1906–2002) was an Austrian filmmaker. Wilder initially pursued a career in journalism after being inspired by an American newsreel. He worked...
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  • the brother of the film director Billy Wilder and father of television comedy writer and producer Myles Wilder. Wilder originally was a NY-based maker...
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    a list of awards and nominations received by American filmmaker Billy Wilder. Wilder was an American film writer, director, producer, with a Hollywood...
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    singer who was most active in the 1940s. She was the wife of director Billy Wilder. Young was born in Los Angeles, California, Her father, Stratton Young...
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    Some Like It Hot (category Films directed by Billy Wilder)
    1959 American crime comedy film directed, produced and co-written by Billy Wilder. It stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, with George Raft...
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  • A list of books and essays about Billy Wilder: Armstrong, Richard (1 January 2004). Billy Wilder, American Film Realist. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-2119-0...
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    Sunset Boulevard (film) (category Films directed by Billy Wilder)
    Boulevard is a 1950 American black comedy film noir directed by Billy Wilder and co-written by Wilder and Charles Brackett. It is named after a major street that...
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    Jack Lemmon was an American actor. He collaborated with Billy Wilder and Walter Matthau on many films. A Twist of Lemmon (Eic, 1958) Some Like It Hot (1959)...
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  • Myles Wilder (January 28, 1933 – April 20, 2010) was a television comedy writer and producer. Wilder attended and graduated from UCLA's Theater Arts Department...
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    event, he served film director and screenwriter Billy Wilder. He struck up a conversation with Wilder, who advised Thornton to consider a career as a...
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  • media. The Billy Wilder Theater is on the courtyard level of the Hammer Museum. Made possible by a $5 million gift from Audrey L. Wilder and designed...
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    Beau Wilkes in Gone with the Wind in 1939. His uncle was film director Billy Wilder. Curtis died on November 24, 2022, at the age of 83. His Gone with the...
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    The Apartment (category Films directed by Billy Wilder)
    a 1960 American romantic comedy-drama film directed and produced by Billy Wilder from a screenplay he co-wrote with I. A. L. Diamond. It stars Jack Lemmon...
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    Double Indemnity (category Films directed by Billy Wilder)
    Double Indemnity is a 1944 American crime thriller film noir directed by Billy Wilder, co-written with Raymond Chandler, and produced by Buddy DeSylva and...
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    was an American screenwriter and film producer. He collaborated with Billy Wilder on sixteen films. Brackett was born in Saratoga Springs, New York, the...
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    and teacher known for his portrait paintings, including Gore Vidal and Billy Wilder. Newley's father was actor and songwriter Anthony Newley, and his mother...
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  • Fedora (1978 film) (category Films directed by Billy Wilder)
    German-French drama film directed by Billy Wilder and starring William Holden and Marthe Keller. The screenplay by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is based on Tom...
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  • Hollywood director Billy Wilder. She invites Calista to join her, but disappears halfway through the meal, leaving Calista in the company of Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond...
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  • It Hot is a 1959 comedy film starring Marilyn Monroe and directed by Billy Wilder. Some Like It Hot may also refer to: Some Like It Hot (1939 film), a...
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  • The Major and the Minor (category Films directed by Billy Wilder)
    Milland. It was the first American film directed by Billy Wilder. The screenplay credited to Wilder and Charles Brackett is "suggested by" the 1923 play...
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  • Buddy Buddy (category Films directed by Billy Wilder)
    Molinaro's film L'emmerdeur. It was the final film directed and written by Billy Wilder. To earn his long-awaited retirement, hitman Trabucco eliminates several...
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    Ruth, Dear Wife (1949). Holden's career took off again in 1950 when Billy Wilder tapped him to play a down-at-heel screenwriter taken in by a faded silent...
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    longstanding association with Hitchcock, Williams appeared in three Billy Wilder films over the course of his career: Sabrina (1954), Witness for the...
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  • by a $5 million gift from Audrey L. Wilder and designed by Michael Maltzan Architecture, the 295-seat Billy Wilder Theater is situated on the Courtyard...
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    filmmaker Billy Wilder. In 2021, he edited and introduced an anthology of Wilder's journalistic writings of the 1920s and early 30s as Billy Wilder on Assignment:...
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  • Romanian–American screenwriter, best known for his collaborations with Billy Wilder. Diamond was born in Ungheni, Bessarabia, Romania, i.e. present day Moldova...
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  • Stalag 17 (category Films directed by Billy Wilder)
    Stalag 17 is a 1953 American war film directed by Billy Wilder. It tells the story of a group of American airmen confined with 40,000 prisoners in a World...
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    Pictures in 1934. In the 1930s, MacMurray worked with film directors Billy Wilder and Preston Sturges, and actors Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Humphrey...
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  • The Front Page (1974 film) (category Films directed by Billy Wilder)
    black comedy-drama film directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. The screenplay by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is based on...
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