He mentioned in a 2004 interview that some of his idols are James L. Brooks, Sydney Pollack and Billy Wilder.
In 1948, Marshman was recruited by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder to help write the screenplay of Sunset Boulevard.
Harrison is probably best known for his long association with Billy Wilder.
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For twenty-five years, from 1941–1966, Harrison edited or produced all the films directed by Billy Wilder, who is now considered as one of the great 20th Century filmmakers.
Alperson's last film of note was acquiring the film rights to Irma La Douce for Mirisch Productions that was filmed in 1963 by Billy Wilder but without the music.
Other noteworthy credits include opening titles and many music videos for "The Sonny and Cher Show", the animated opening sequence for Grease, an animated trailer for Billy Wilder's Irma La Douce, and the ABC-TV half hour animated special, Stanley, the Ugly Duckling.
The 26-foot-tall (7.9 m) 34,000 pound (15.42 t) sculpture, manufactured of painted stainless steel and aluminum, is a super-sized sculptural tribute to Marilyn Monroe's iconic scene from Billy Wilder's 1955 infidelity comedy, The Seven-Year Itch, with the figure imitating the instant that a blast of air raises her white dress.
Literary Readings of Billy Wilder, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.
A KOAT radio remote appears frequently in the 1951 Billy Wilder film, Ace in the Hole.
Billy Wilder (1906–2002), filmmaker whose birth name was Samuel Wilder
Ruman continued his trend of playing over-the-top German characters later in his career for Lubitsch's protege Billy Wilder, appearing in Wilder's films The Emperor Waltz, Stalag 17 and The Fortune Cookie.
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes is a 1970 film directed and produced by Billy Wilder; he also shared writing credit with his longtime collaborator I. A. L. Diamond.
Pierson, who was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York originally played the role of Marko in the original Broadway production of Stalag 17, and was tapped by director Billy Wilder for the role in the 1953 motion picture production.
This film is a remake of another Paramount film, The Major and the Minor (1942), directed by Billy Wilder — his first film as director—and co-written by Wilder and Charles Brackett.
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The script was written by Charles Brackett, Thomas Monroe, and Billy Wilder from a short story written by Wilder while he was still in Europe, and based in part on the fairy tale Snow White.
Charlotte Chandler (the pen name of Lyn Erhard) is an American biographer and playwright who has written biographies of Groucho Marx, Federico Fellini, Billy Wilder, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Ingrid Bergman and Alfred Hitchcock.
He worked on projects in other genres too, such as The Spanish Gardener (1956), the war film Sink the Bismarck! (1960), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), and Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970).
Cliff Osmond (born Clifford Osman Ebrahim) (February 26, 1937 - December 22, 2012) was an American character actor and television screenwriter best known for appearing in films directed by Billy Wilder.
The director was Joe May and the screenplay was by Howard Irving Young and Billy Wilder.
The final round of the awards are judged by prominent writers, directors, and entertainers, who have included Moss Hart, Billy Wilder, George Stevens, Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Dustin Hoffman, James Brooks, David Mamet, A. Scott Berg, and David Lynch.
It was based on the play The Dazzling Hour by Anna Bonacci, which was later updated for the Billy Wilder film Kiss Me, Stupid.