The existing written evidence ( including ongoing correspondence between the women concerning the development of the multi-volume series, Lane's extensive personal diaries detailing the time she spent working on the manuscripts, and Wilder's own initial draft manuscripts ) tends to reveal an ongoing mutual collaboration that involved Lane more extensively in the earlier books, and to a much lesser extent by the time the series ended, as Wilder's confidence in her own writing ability increased, and Lane was no longer living at Rocky Ridge Farm.

This meant that if the Republicans could have established true party discipline, they could have chosen either to retain Wilder or replace him ; however, since several incumbent Republicans who were either reelected or whose terms did not expire in this election cycle were known to be allies and close friends of Wilder, the outcome that was considered to be most likely by most close observers was that these Republicans would join with the Democratic minority to continue Wilder's working majority and that he would be reelected Lieutenant Governor.

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 ).

Gordon continued her on-stage acting career in the 1950s, and was nominated for a 1956 Tony, for Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play, for her portrayal of Dolly Levi in Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker, a role she also played in London, Edinburgh and Berlin.

In 2003, he appeared in a Broadway revival of Wilder's Our Town, receiving his first Tony Award nomination for his performance.

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.

He is woken up just in time for dinner, during which Harmon Wilder, the Bellemys ' lawyer, and Charles Sherman, Wilder's assistant, are pointed out to him.

A controversy ensued upon his death when the local library in Mansfield, Missouri, contended that Wilder's original will gave her daughter ownership of the literary estate for her lifetime only, and that all rights were to revert to the Laura Ingalls Wilder Library after her death.

Following her high school graduation in 1938, she went to New York, changed her name to " Teresa Wright ", and was hired as understudy to Dorothy McGuire and Martha Scott for the role of Emily in Thornton Wilder's stage production of Our Town at Henry Miller's Theatre.

While the Wilders were never wealthy until the " Little House " series of books began to achieve popularity, the farming operation and Wilder's income from writing and the Farm Loan Association provided a stable enough living for the Wilders to finally place themselves in Mansfield, Missouri's middle-class society.

Wilder's fellow clubwomen were mostly the wives of business owners, doctors and lawyers, and her club activities took up much of the time that Lane encouraged her to use to develop a writing career for national magazines, as Lane had done.

Wilder's first — and smallest — royalty check from Harper in 1932 was for $ 500 — the equivalent of $ 8, 000 in 2010 dollars.

This book was intended to serve as the capstone to the Little House series, for those many fans who since Wilder's death were now writing to Lane asking, " what happened next ?".

Controversy came after MacBride's death in 1995, when the local library in Mansfield, Missouri, contended that Wilder's original will gave her daughter ownership of the literary estate for her lifetime only, all rights to revert to the Laura Ingalls Wilder Library after her death.

Kander, along with Ebb, also wrote songs for Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, and it was set to premiere in London, but the rights were pulled by Wilder's nephew.

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 ).

According to Gene Wilder's autobiography, the Tommy role, played by Harrison Ford, was originally planned for John Wayne.

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 ).

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!

On film, he was Igor ( pronounced " EYE-gore "-an ironic response to Wilder's claim that " it's pronounced FRONK-EN-STEEN ") in Young Frankenstein where many lines were improvised.

" Gene Wilder's film debut as amiable hostage Eugene Grizzard

Roger Ebert says about the movie, " Wilder's 1959 comedy is one of the enduring treasures of the movies, a film of inspiration and meticulous craft.

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.

He also made an appearance in Gene Wilder's debut directorial film, The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes ' Smarter Brother.

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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 Mel Brooks ' 1968 film The Producers, Gene Wilder's character is called Leo Bloom, an homage to Joyce's character.

Time magazine used it in their 1961 review of Wilder's One, Two, Three, calling the film a " yell-mell, hard-sell, Sennett-with-a-sound-track satire of iron curtains and color lines, of people's demockeracy, Coca-Colonization, peaceful nonexistence, and the Deep Southern concept that all facilities are created separate but equal.

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.

* OT: Our Town, a 2002 documentary film about a high school in Compton, California that stages Thornton Wilder's Our Town.

He opened the myth book again and there ( along the margin next to Robert Graves' imaginative interpretation of the creation of the Dactyls from Rhea's fingertips ) were the names of four Munich bars and Meredith Wilder's address.

Leigh was well enough to resume acting in 1946, in a successful London production of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth ; but her films of this period, Caesar and Cleopatra ( 1945 ) and Anna Karenina ( 1948 ), were not great successes.

One feature of Wilder's plan was an orderly street plan in which streets were laid out at right angles, with several of the streets named after trees.

However, in the vote held on January 9, 2007, all 17 Republicans voted for Ramsey and were joined by Democratic Senator Rosalind Kurita of Clarksville, ending Wilder's tenure as Speaker of the Senate and Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee.

Wilder's men were armed with new Spencer repeating rifles and when they attacked the Confederate 1st ( 3rd ) Kentucky Cavalry Regiment, under Colonel J. Russell Butler, was easily pushed aside.

However, when their first big-name productions, Wyler's Friendly Persuasion and Wilder's Love in the Afternoon were box-office flops in 1956 – 57, studio head Broidy retreated into the kind of pictures Monogram had always favored: low-budget action and thrillers.

However, Wilder's more notable contributions to Depeche Mode were as a musician, arranger, and producer.

Their social and cultural backgrounds often clashed, but Brackett acknowledged later in his life that Wilder's baser instincts about human nature were invaluable to their collaboration.

Wilder's husband and father-in-law were also injured.