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.

* In Billy Wilder's 1944 film noir Double Indemnity, the character of Mr. Jackson, played by Porter Hall, is from Medford, Oregon, but mentions Corvallis in this line to Walter Neff ( Fred MacMurray ): " It's the name!

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.

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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.

He became a favorite actor of director Billy Wilder, starring in his films Some Like It Hot ( for which he was awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival ), The Apartment, Irma la Douce, The Fortune Cookie, Avanti !, The Front Page, and Buddy Buddy.

* Some Like It Hot ( 1959 ), d. Billy Wilder

* 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 ).

Some witnesses testified that Morgan and Doc fired across one another at Billy and Frank, respectively.

Some of the best-known and most popular acts in this period were Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs and Ray Brown & The Whispers, The Easybeats, The Bee Gees, The Masters Apprentices, The Twilights, The Groop, The Groove, The Loved Ones and cult acts like The Throb and solo star Normie Rowe, who quickly became Australia's most popular male pop vocalist.

Some Like It Hot is an American romantic screwball comedy film, made in 1958 and released in 1959, which was directed by Billy Wilder and starred Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and George Raft.

Some voice actors, such as Billy West, are highly critical of using movie stars for voices in animated features.

Some of the earliest successes came from folk clubs, where performers such as Billy Connolly, Mike Harding and Jasper Carrott started as relatively straight musical acts whose between-song banter developed into complete comedy routines.

Some of the Lennon demos available include " Bad To Me " ( 1963, given to Billy J. Kramer ), " I'm in Love " ( 1963, given to The Fourmost ), " If I Fell " ( 1964 ), and " Everyone Had A Hard Year " ( 1968, later incorporated into " I've Got a Feeling ").

Some time later Laura beats her husband to death in his own home, making Billy an accomplice after the fact.

Some artist examples would be Afro-Rican ( as Power Supply ), Techmaster P. E. B., DJ Billy E, Bass 305 and Bass Patrol.

Some notable players were quarterback Billy Joe Tolliver and kick returner Freeman Baysinger.

Some notable people whose Requiem Masses were said at the cathedral include New York Yankees greats Babe Ruth, Roger Maris, and Billy Martin ; legendary football coach Vince Lombardi, singer Celia Cruz, former Attorney General and U. S. Senator from New York Robert F. Kennedy, New York Giants owner Wellington Mara, and former Governor of New York Hugh Carey.

Best known Chicago artists on OKeh were Major Lance (“ The Monkey Time ”), Walter Jackson (“ It ’ s All Over ”), Billy Butler (“ Right Track ”), and the Artistics (“ Get My Hands on Some Lovin ’”).

Some of the most successful tribute bands in Florida tend to be the contemporary acts like a Billy Joel tribute or a Jimmy Buffett show.

Some pipers allow themselves to play these open-fingered, and hence not staccato, and Billy Pigg was able to get great expressive effects in this way-' You should be able to hear the bairns crying '.

Some of the people thus assaulted include U. S. president Jimmy Carter's brother Billy, the federal opposition leader, Joe Clark, future B. C.

Some of the hot feuds of the era included Chris Adams & Toni Adams vs. Phil Hickerson & Tojo Yamamoto ; Kerry Von Erich vs. Tarras Bulba ( with Kerry doing a stretcher job against Bulba, pinned by Bulba's iron claw ); and Eric Embry vs. Billy Travis.

Some artists, such as Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, The Beatles, Kenny Rogers, Aerosmith, Kiss, U2, Los Tigres del Norte, Queen, Kylie Minogue and Billy Joel, have released multiple greatest hits albums through their careers.

Raft himself later parodied his own gangster persona as the character " Spats Colombo " in Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy Some Like It Hot: Raft sees another mobster flipping a coin and responds, " Where did you pick up that cheap trick?

* 1959: Some Like It Hot – Adapted Screenplay ( with Billy Wilder )

* 1959: Some Like It Hot – American Comedy ( with Billy Wilder )