Gloria Swanson immortalized DeMille with the oft-repeated line, " All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up " in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, wherein DeMille played himself.

After the credits of Billy Wilder's film Witness for the Prosecution, the cinemagoers are asked not to talk to anyone about the plot so that future viewers will also be able to fully enjoy the unravelling of the mystery.

" In 1947, he took eleven songs George had written but never used, provided them with new lyrics, and incorporated them into the Betty Grable film The Shocking Miss Pilgrim and he later wrote comic lyrics for Billy Wilder's movie Kiss Me, Stupid -- although most critics believe his final major work was for the 1954 Judy Garland film, A Star Is Born ).

Another Channel 4 poll in 2001 named it the 23rd greatest film of all time ( the only comedy that came higher on this occasion was Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot, which was ranked 5th ).

It has been described as " perhaps the most unsparing tract against drink that Hollywood has yet produced, more pessimistic than Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend.

The residents of Weimar were ordered to walk through Buchenwald, to see what had been happening so close to the city, as documented in Billy Wilder's film Death Mills.

The pinnacle of Milland's career and acknowledgment of his serious dramatic abilities came in 1946 when he won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of an alcoholic in Billy Wilder's film The Lost Weekend ( 1945 ).

Further highlights of this period included Tom, Dick, and Harry, a 1941 comedy in which she dreams of marrying three different men ; I'll Be Seeing You, with Joseph Cotten ; La Cava's 5th Avenue Girl ( 1939 ), where she played an out-of-work girl sucked into the lives of a wealthy family ; and especially the sharp and highly successful comedies: Bachelor Mother ( 1939 ), with David Niven, in which she played Polly Parrish, a shop girl who is falsely thought to have abandoned her baby ; and Billy Wilder's first Hollywood feature film: The Major and the Minor ( 1942 ), in which she played a woman who masquerades as a 12-year-old to get a cheap train ticket and finds herself obliged to continue the ruse for an extended period.

Veronika Voss was inspired as much by Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard ( 1950 ), as by the life of performer Sybille Schmitz.

It was among the first Hollywood films to challenge the Hays Code, along with Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot ( 1959 ) and Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho ( 1960 ).

This episode contains several parallels to Billy Wilder's 1950 film Sunset Boulevard and shares the same composer and conductor of music, Franz Waxman.

* The game appears in Billy Wilder's 1944 classic film Double Indemnity.

Martin played a satiric variation of his own womanizing persona as Vegas singer " Dino " in Billy Wilder's comedy Kiss Me, Stupid ( 1964 ) with Kim Novak, and he was not above poking fun at his image in films such as the Matt Helm spy spoofs of the 1960s, in which he was a co-producer.

Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot ( 1959 ) was released without a certificate of approval due to its themes and became a box office smash and, as a result, further weakened the authority of the Code.

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In the 1940s, Robinson demonstrated his ability to succeed in comedic and film noir roles, including Raoul Walsh's Manpower ( 1941 ) with Marlene Dietrich and George Raft, Larceny, Inc. ( 1942 ) with Jane Wyman and Broderick Crawford, Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity ( 1944 ) with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck, Fritz Lang's The Woman in the Window ( 1945 ) with Joan Bennett and Raymond Massey, Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street ( 1945 ) with Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea, and Orson Welles ' The Stranger ( 1946 ) with Orson Welles and Loretta Young.

" For the next several years, she turned down virtually all film offers, the two exceptions being Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair ( 1948 ), in which she played a congresswoman and rival of Marlene Dietrich, and as a homesteader's wife in the classic Western Shane ( 1953 ), which turned out to be the biggest box-office hit of her career.

The boulevard is commemorated in Billy Wilder's 1950 film Sunset Boulevard, Andrew Lloyd Webber musical of the same name, and the 1950s television series 77 Sunset Strip.

* Mentioned by Jack Lemmon in Billy Wilder's 1966 film The Fortune Cookie.

In 1964, she played a vulgar waitress in a remake of W. Somerset Maugham's drama Of Human Bondage opposite Laurence Harvey ; and replaced the late Marilyn Monroe as a sultry barmaid in Billy Wilder's Kiss Me, Stupid with Dean Martin and Ray Walston.

He is perhaps best known as an actor for his role as von Rauffenstein in Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion ( 1937 ) and as Max von Mayerling in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard ( 1950 ).

takes place on the island and Billy Wilder's adaptation was filmed there.

In 1960, he appeared in the film Pension Schöller, and the following year was prominently featured in Billy Wilder's film One, Two, Three, co-starring with James Cagney.

* The recurring references to Coca-Cola, including the key sequence where a Coca-Cola banner is unfurled outside Christiane's bedroom, recall Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three, also set in Berlin, in 1961, the year of the Wall's erection.

* 1944 – Billy Vera, American singer-songwriter and actor

In 1944, the Billy Eckstine band visited East St. Louis.

* Some of Hollywood's most notable blockbuster films of the 1940s include: The Maltese Falcon directed by John Huston ( 1941 ), It's a Wonderful Life directed by Frank Capra ( 1946 ), Double Indemnity directed by Billy Wilder ( 1944 ), Meet Me in St. Louis directed by Vincente Minnelli ( 1944 ), Casablanca directed by Michael Curtiz ( 1942 ), Citizen Kane directed by Orson Welles ( 1941 )," The Great Dictator directed by Charlie Chaplin ( 1940 ).

Gottfried Wilhelm " Billy " Bitzer ( April 21, 1874-April 29, 1944 ) was a pioneering cinematographer notable for his close association with D. W. Griffith.

MacMurray is well known for his role in the 1944 film noir Double Indemnity directed by Billy Wilder, which he starred in with Barbara Stanwyck.

In the Paramount theatrical cartoons, Bluto was voiced by a number of actors, including William Pennell, Pat Cassotta, Gus Wickie, Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colvig, and, most notably, Jackson Beck, who took over the role in 1944.

Vaughan spent the remainder of 1943 and part of 1944 touring the country with the Earl Hines big band that also featured baritone Billy Eckstine.

The current line-up is: Tony Crane ( founder member ) lead vocals and lead guitar ; Billy Kinsley ( founder member ) lead vocals and rhythm guitar ; Bob Packham ( joined 1974 ) backing vocals and bass guitar ( born Robert Packham, 17 July 1944, Anfield, Liverpool ) ( ex The Galvinsers ); Dave Goldberg keyboards and lead guitar ; and Lou Rosenthal ( also joined 2000 ) drums.

* Billy Cobham ( born 1944 ), jazz musician

Yes, Lawrence Kasdan's Body Heat ( 1981 ) is aware of the films that inspired it — especially Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity ( 1944 ).

He had recently been introduced to The Gamblers, an East Belfast group formed in 1962 by Ronnie Millings ( drums, born 1937 ), Billy Harrison ( guitar and lead vocals, born William Harrison on 14 October 1942 ), and Alan Henderson ( bass guitar, born 26 November 1944 ).

In 1944, Rózsa scored Double Indemnity, the first of several collaborations with acclaimed director Billy Wilder.

He was briefly teamed with comedians Billy Gilbert and Maxie Rosenbloom for three B-comedy features in 1944 – 45.

In 1943 he played the trumpet with Joe Venuti, in 1944 with Billy Rogers and trombone in the bands of Boyd Raeburn, Jimmy Dorsey, Buddy Rich, Georgie Auld and Chubby Jackson.

Billy Vera ( born William McCord ; May 28, 1944 ) is an American singer, actor, writer and music historian.

* The case was the inspiration for the novel Double Indemnity ( 1943 ) by James M. Cain, which was later adapted for the screen ( 1944 ) by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler.

Michael Robert " Mick " Green ( February 22, 1944 – January 11, 2010 ) was an English rock and roll guitarist who played with Johnny Kidd & the Pirates and Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas.

It was introduced in 1944 in Billy Rose's musical revue, Seven Lively Arts.

Due to the decline in new Broadway shows during the Great Depression, the theater became the Loew's Ziegfeld in 1933 and operated as a movie theater until showman Billy Rose bought it in 1944.

On 2 January 1944 Shea began his ministry as a featured soloist on Billy Graham's Songs in the Night weekly radio program, which was broadcast live on Sunday evenings for 45 minutes from 10. 15pm from the basement of the Village ( Baptist ) Church at 4475 Wolf Road, Western Springs, Illinois pastored by Graham, and transmitted on radio station WCFL originating from Chicago, Illinois.