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    Billy Wilder (/ˈwaɪldər/; German: [ˈvɪldɐ]; born Samuel Wilder; June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an American filmmaker and screenwriter. He was born...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • Witness for the Prosecution (1957 film) (category Films directed by Billy Wilder)
    Prosecution is a 1957 American legal mystery thriller film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, and Elsa...
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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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    Sunset Boulevard: Billy Wilder, Norma Desmond, and the Dark Hollywood Dream. MacMillan. p. 146. ISBN 978-0-312-30254-2. Wilder, Billy; Lemon, Richard (2001)...
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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, Charles Brackett and D. M. Marshman Jr. It is named after...
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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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    Double Indemnity (category Films directed by Billy Wilder)
    is a 1944 American film noir directed by Billy Wilder and produced by Buddy DeSylva and Joseph Sistrom. Wilder and Raymond Chandler adapted the screenplay...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Buddy Buddy (category Films directed by Billy Wilder)
    Molinaro's film L'emmerdeur. It is the final film directed and written by Billy Wilder. To earn his long-awaited retirement, hitman Trabucco eliminates several...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder, p. 589 Wolf, Matt. "Sunset Boulevard Has Mixed Reviews, But Billy Wilder's Impressed", Associated Press, 13...
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    Ball of Fire (category Films with screenplays by Billy Wilder)
    written by Charles Brackett, Thomas Monroe, and Billy Wilder from a short story titled "From A to Z", which Wilder had created while he was still in Europe....
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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