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2009
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Jack Lemmon has mastered both stage and screen in his career with such hits as "The Odd Couple," "The Days of Wine and...
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1996
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In 1994, the British Film Institute commissioned a set of films to mark the centenary of the movies. They would trace the...
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1995
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1992
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This excellent biographical documentary looks at the life and work of director William Wyler. The film is dominated by clips...
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1986
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From its humble beginnings as a four-character short story, Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution matriculated into a...
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Screenwriter
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1982
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As if in some way Billy Wilder sensed that Buddy Buddy would ultimately turn out to be his final feature film, Wilder lets...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1981
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1980
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In Fedora, Billy Wilder approaches Hollywood stardom in the same fashion as he did in Sunset Boulevard--with cynicism,...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1978
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Director, Screenwriter
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1974
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This enchanting yet dark romantic comedy stars Jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills as a pair of mismatched lovers helplessly drawn...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1973
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1970
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Retired after years of international espionage, Agent 007 is lured back into action to battle the evil spy organization...
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Screenwriter
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1967
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The British title of Billy Wilder's classic comedy was Meet Whiplash Willie -- for, despite Jack Lemmon's star billing, the...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1966
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Dean Martin stars in this once-controversial comedy as Dino, a Las Vegas crooner, alcoholic, and celebrity playboy. Dino...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1964
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This romantic comedy opens with a resounding warning: its chief concerns are passion, bloodshed, desire, and death....
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1963
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In his last starring film (it was supposed to be his last film, but Ragtime came along in 1981), James Cagney plays Coca-Cola...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1961
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Widely regarded as a comedy in 1960, The Apartment seems more melancholy with each passing year. Jack Lemmon plays C.C....
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1960
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The launching pad for Billy Wilder's comedy classic was a rusty old German farce, Fanfares of Love, whose two main characters...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1959
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This retelling of one of Charles Lindbergh's most famous feats stars Jimmy Stewart as the legendary flier, and was directed...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1957
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1957
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Having just recovered from a heart attack, fabled British barrister Sir Wilfred Robards (Charles Laughton) has been ordered...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1957
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Like thousands of other Manhattanites, Tom Ewell annually packs his wife (Evelyn Keyes) and children off to summer vacation,...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1955
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1954
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The scene is a German POW camp, sometime during the mid-1940s. Stalag 17, exclusively populated by American sergeants, is...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1953
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Billy Winder directed and co-wrote this bitterly satiric comedy-drama which turns a jaundiced eye towards both the news media...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1951
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Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard ranks among the most scathing satires of Hollywood and the cruel fickleness of movie fandom....
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Director, Screenwriter
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1950
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A Song is Born is a musical remake of the 1941 comedy Ball of Fire, with the same producer (Sam Goldwyn) and director...
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Screen Story
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1948
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Set in pre-World War I Austria, this relatively sweet and cheerful film marks writer/director Billy Wilder's first and last...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1948
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Director, Screenwriter
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1948
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Billy Wilder's searing portrait of an alcoholic features an Oscar-winning performance by Ray Milland as Don Birnam, a writer...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1945
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Director, Screenwriter
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1944
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Billy Wilder's Five Graves to Cairo is the third take on Lajos Biro's theatrical tale of romance and espionage, Hotel...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1943
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A woman's attempt to disguise herself as an underage girl mushrooms into a series of humorous deceptions in this romantic...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1942
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Hold Back the Dawn begins with a shabby immigrant (Charles Boyer) wandering onto a Paramount sound stage and telling his life...
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Screenwriter
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1941
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Screenwriter
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1941
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A serious journalist is sent to France and forced to write fashion fluff pieces. Tiring of this, she decides to sneak off to...
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Screenwriter
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1940
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Paramount's screwball comedy Midnight is the first collaboration between director Mitchell Leisen and screenwriting duo...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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In this comedy drama, young high school student Henry Aldrich tries to tone down his natural mischievousness and shuck the...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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"Garbo Laughs!" declared the ads for Ninotchka. In the face of dwindling foreign revenues, MGM decided to put Greta Garbo, a...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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In this musical romantic comedy of 1938, Deanna Durbin plays Alice Fullerton, a young woman of a "certain age" who is prone...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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Screenwriter
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1938
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In their never-ending efforts to transform contract actress Pat Paterson a major star, Fox Studios cast the lovely lady...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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The legendary Billy Wilder made his debut as a director with this comedy, shot in France (in collaboration with Alexander...
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Director
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1934
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Screenwriter
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1934
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In this pre-WWII German mystery-comedy, a lovely klepto with a taste for fine jewelry is unable to resist temptation....
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Screenwriter
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1933
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Screenwriter
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1932
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Screenwriter
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1932
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Screenwriter
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1932
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No less a scrivener than Billy Wilder adapted the Erich Kastner novel Emil and the Detectives for its first film version. The...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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Princess Marie Christine (Kaethe Von Nagy) doesn't want to marry the man picked out for her by her parents. Likewise,...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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Robert Siodmak's second solo directorial effort was the breathless comedy-melodrama Der Mann, Der Seinen Moerder Sucht...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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The title tells all in the German comedy Die Falsche Ehemann (The Wrong Husband). As can be gathered, it's a...
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Dialogue Writer, Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1931
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An early experiment in neo-realist filmmaking, Menschen Am Sonntag is a low-budget drama about two men, a cab driver and a...
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Screenwriter
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1929
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Screenwriter
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1929
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