* The epistolary novel Ides of March by Thornton Wilder centers on Julius Caesar, but prominently features Catullus, his poetry, his relationship ( and correspondence ) with Clodia, correspondence from his family and a description of his death.

In 1906 construction began on the Post Office, with local cricketer George Wilder laying an inscribed brick.

Notable American films from the war years include the anti-Nazi Watch on the Rhine ( 1943 ), scripted by Dashiell Hammett ; Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943 ), Hitchcock's direction of a script by Thornton Wilder ; the George M. Cohan biopic, Yankee Doodle Dandy ( 1942 ), starring James Cagney, and the immensely popular Casablanca, with Humphrey Bogart.

Indeed, at the end of the 19th century scholar Ernest DeWitt Burton wrote that there could be " no reasonable doubt " that 1 John and the gospel were written by the same author, and Amos Wilder has said that, " Early Christian tradition and the great majority of modern scholars have agreed on the common authorship of these writings, even where the author has not been identified with the apostle John.

While this theory, first propounded by Ernst von Dobschütz and Rudolf Bultmann, is not universally accepted, Amos Wilder writes that, " it is at least clear that there are considerable and sometimes continuous elements in the epistle whose style distinguishes them from that of the author both with respect to poetic structure and syntactic usage.

In Sabrina, Billy Wilder, unable to secure Cary Grant, chose Bogart for the role of the older, conservative brother who competes with his younger playboy sibling ( William Holden ) for the affection of the Cinderella-like Sabrina ( Audrey Hepburn ).

Bogart was lukewarm about the part, but agreed to it on a handshake with Wilder, without a finished script, and with the director's assurances to take good care of Bogart during the filming.

Bogart told the press that Wilder was " overbearing " and " is the kind of Prussian German with a riding crop.

Wilder felt Lemmon had a natural tendency toward overacting that had to be tempered ; the Wilder biography Nobody's Perfect quotes the director as saying, " Lemmon, I would describe him as a ham, a fine ham, and with ham you have to trim a little fat ".

He received praise for his performance, and the studio liked his work enough to offer him These Wilder Years with Barbara Stanwyck.

Captain Wilder approaches under a white flag and has a short discussion with Spender during which the archaeologist explains that if he manages to kill off the expedition it may delay human colonization of the planet for a few more years, possibly long enough that the expected nuclear war on Earth will protect Mars from human colonization completely.

Although he opposes Spender's methods, Captain Wilder somewhat agrees with his attitude towards colonization and wishes for him a humane death.

As Wilder prepares to depart, one of the crew returns to the house with a pistol, thinking to put an end to the androids, whose existence seems pointless now that Hathaway is gone, but he returns shortly, having been unable to bring himself to kill the robotic family even knowing that they are not truly human.

* Ides of March is an epistolatory novel by Thornton Wilder dealing with characters and events leading to, and culminating in, the assassination of Julius Caesar.

Wilder was originally drawn to this material after having worked with Raymond Chandler on the screenplay for Double Indemnity.

Chandler was a recovering alcoholic at the time, and the stress and tumultuous relationship with Wilder during the collaboration caused him to go back to drinking.

Ford also co-starred alongside Gene Wilder in the buddy-Western The Frisco Kid ( 1979 ), playing a bank robber with a heart of gold.

At one point, Dr Frankenstein ( Wilder ) scolds Igor with the phrase, " Damn your eyes!

Thornton Wilder as a child, pictured with his two sisters and his father Amos at family cottage at Maple Bluff, Wisconsin, 1900

Wilder was introduced to Steward by Gertrude Stein, who at the time regularly corresponded with both of them.

Wilder had a wide circle of friends and enjoyed mingling with other famous people, including Ernest Hemingway, Russel Wright, Willa Cather, and Montgomery Clift.

Wilder died on December 7, 1975, age 78, in Hamden, Connecticut, where he lived for many years with his sister Isabel.

Mulan features a score by Jerry Goldsmith and five songs by Matthew Wilder ( music ) and David Zippel ( lyrics ), with a sixth originally planned for Mushu, but dropped following Eddie Murphy's involvement with the character.

Volga is talked about in the juvenile novel The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder in the chapter titled " Pa Goes to Volga ".

In the last chapter of These Happy Golden Years, Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote a descriptive account of the pantry that Almanzo Wilder built for her in their first home together in DeSmet, South Dakota.

The final chapter describes Wilder, Jack's youngest child, riding a tricycle across the highway and miraculously surviving.

Wilder provides one chapter covering songwriters he deemed " The Great Craftsmen ": Hoagy Carmichael, Walter Donaldson, Harry Warren, Isham Jones, Jimmy McHugh, Duke Ellington, Fred Ahlert, Richard A. Whiting, Ray Noble, John Green, Rube Bloom, and Jimmy Van Heusen.

Wilder remarks in a later book that Carrie " was not recovering from the hard winter as she should " ( Little Town on the Prairie, chapter 12 ).

In 1938, Wilder adapted Nestroy's version into an Americanized comedy entitled The Merchant of Yonkers, which attracted the attention of German director Max Reinhardt, who mounted a Broadway production.

This led to his being cast in his most well-known role as Mr. Edwards in the TV series based on the books of Laura Ingalls Wilder entitled Little House on the Prairie beginning in 1973.

Following a five-year break from recording, Alan Wilder returned with Recoil's fifth studio album, entitled subHuman released in July 2007, and recorded using Apple Inc Macintosh computers, Logic Pro software, and a Pro Tools system.

The same melody had earlier ( 1946 ) been used for a song credited to William Engvick, Bert Reisfeld and Alec Wilder entitled " Spring Magic ," which was recorded by Charlie Spivak and his Orchestra.

On April 22, 2007, Wilder released a statement on his MySpace page that the new album would be entitled subHuman and had been provisionally set for release on July 9, 2007.

Individual achievement awards were awarded to Pam Coats for producing ; Barry Cook and Tony Bancroft for Directing ; Rita Hsiao, Christopher Sanders, Phillip LaZebnick, Raymond Singer and Eugenia Bostwick-Singer in Writing ; Chris Sanders for Storyboarding ; Hans Bacher for Production Design ; David Tidgwell for Effects Animation ; Ming-Na for Voice Acting Mulan ; Matthew Wilder, David Zippel and Jerry Goldsmith for music and Ruben A. Aquino for Character Animation.

* Lullabies and Night Songs by Alec Wilder ( 1985 )

For the recording of the album Songs of Faith and Devotion and its corresponding Devotional Tour Wilder learned to play live drums.

Between 1992 – 93 Wilder resumed his Depeche Mode duties as the band recorded the album Songs of Faith and Devotion.

Wilder in his Yale College graduation photograph | photo, 1920

Eugene Wilder Chafin ( November 1, 1852 – November 30, 1920 ) was an United States politician from the Prohibition Party.

A half-decade after Double Indemnity and The Lost Weekend, Billy Wilder made Sunset Boulevard ( 1950 ) and Ace in the Hole ( 1951 ), noirs that were not so much crime dramas as satires on, respectively, Hollywood and the news media.

) is a 1950 American film noir directed and co-written by Billy Wilder, and produced and co-written by Charles Brackett.

The bridge, the paper mill, and the dam that supplied power to the mill were all demolished in 1950 for the construction of Wilder Dam.

While Dietrich arguably never fully regained her former screen glory, she continued performing in the movies, including appearances for such distinguished directors as Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles, in films that included A Foreign Affair ( 1948 ), Stage Fright ( 1950 ), Rancho Notorious ( 1952 ), Witness for the Prosecution ( 1957 ), and Touch of Evil ( 1958 ).

When casting the role of Norma Desmond for the 1950 film Sunset Boulevard, Billy Wilder offered West, then nearing 60, the role.

American composer and author Alec Wilder wrote of Carmichael in his sweeping " American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900 – 1950 " that he was the " most talented, inventive, sophisticated and jazz-oriented " of the hundreds of writers composing pop songs in the first half of the 20th century.

Despite the disappointments following The Trespasser, Swanson was remembered by Billy Wilder, a writer on Music in the Air, when he was casting the part of Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard ( 1950 ).

She joined Wilder Penfield at the Montreal Neurological Institute in 1950 and published landmark papers with Penfield and William Beecher Scoville in 1957 and 1958.

In 1948, director Billy Wilder approached Negri to appear as Norma Desmond in the film Sunset Boulevard ( 1950 ), after Mae Murray, Mae West, and Mary Pickford declined the role.

In 1950 lower-lying farm areas were flooded when the Wilder Dam was constructed downstream.

In Singin ' in the Rain ( 1952 ), she is parodied as Lina Lamont ... More malignantly, Billy Wilder used Norma Talmadge as the obvious if unacknowledged source of Norma Desmond, the grotesque, predatory silent movie queen of his 1950 film Sunset Boulevard.

The 1950 Billy Wilder classic Sunset Boulevard shares many thematical and plot similarities with What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

For many, the Songbook era ended with rock and roll ; Wilder ends with 1950.

From 1936 until 1950, Brackett worked with Billy Wilder as his collaborator on thirteen movies, including the classics Sunset Blvd.

Brackett and Wilder split in 1950, upon the completion of Sunset Boulevard.

Highly regarded by director Billy Wilder, Seitz worked with him on the film noirs Double Indemnity ( 1944 ), The Lost Weekend ( 1945 ), and Sunset Boulevard ( 1950 ), receiving Academy Award nominations for each.