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Some other Billy Wilder films
Last Edit: AlanScott 11:42 pm EST 11/24/22
Posted by: AlanScott 11:40 pm EST 11/24/22
In reply to: re: Question re TDF seating - huskyital 10:23 am EST 11/24/22

Some other films directed by Billy Wilder:

Double Indemnity, Ball of Fire, Witness for the Prosecution, Sabrina, Ace in the Hole, A Foreign Affair, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, One Two Three, Stalag 17, Love in the Afternoon . . .
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Apropos of Wilder and Some Like It Hot
Posted by: stevemr 02:32 pm EST 11/25/22
In reply to: Some other Billy Wilder films - AlanScott 11:40 pm EST 11/24/22

Wilder has one of the all time great gravestones (rivalled perhaps by Jack Lemmon's -- google it)
Link Billy Wilder's Gravestone
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re: Some other Billy Wilder films
Posted by: BobPlak 11:45 am EST 11/25/22
In reply to: Some other Billy Wilder films - AlanScott 11:40 pm EST 11/24/22

This reminds me of something Jack Lemmon said in an interview on the old CNN Larry King show.

King asked him why Billy Wilder didn't direct him and Walter Matthau in The Odd Couple and Lemmon replied, "Oh, Billy would never adapt a play. He only wanted to direct his own original screenplays."

Billy Wilder directed the following:

Stalag 17
Sabrina
The Seven Year Itch
Witness for the Prosecution
One, Two, Three
Irma la Douce
Avanti!
The Front Page

... all based on plays! Lemmon was in the last three of them!

I wonder how much we read and hear is just not true. It's a depressing amount, even outside of politicians.
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