Wilder was dissatisfied with the theatre of his time: " I felt that something had gone wrong .... I began to feel that the theatre was not only inadequate, it was evasive.

" I felt like recording songs that I like a lot that I didn't write ," he told Pastes Eliot Wilder in 2004.

Wilder has always felt cheated, because he is, as it turns out, the Duke's son, born out of wedlock to the Duke's late lover, before he married the Duchess, who bore the Duke a legitimate heir.

I felt very well rewarded, for the scene fitted Mrs Wilder ’ s description perfectly.

Some of Spacey's early roles include a widowed eccentric millionaire on L. A. Law, the television miniseries The Murder of Mary Phagan ( 1988 ), opposite Lemmon, and the Richard Pryor / Gene Wilder – starring comedy See No Evil, Hear No Evil ( 1989 ).

* The Front Page ( 1974 ), directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau.

He achieved great film success in a 1966 comedy as a shyster lawyer called " Whiplash Willie " Gingrich starring opposite Lemmon in The Fortune Cookie, the first of numerous collaborations with Billy Wilder, and a role that would earn him an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

It costarred Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe, and was directed by Billy Wilder.

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.

Irma la Douce is a 1963 romantic comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, directed by Billy Wilder.

She has stated that the highlight of her film career was the 1972 film Avanti !, directed by Billy Wilder, in which she starred with Jack Lemmon.

Billy Wilder subsequently gave her the featured role of " Kiki the Cossack " in the 1963 film Irma la Douce with Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon.

In 1963, Billy Wilder directed the movie version ( with some of Monnot's music as background ), starring Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon.

** The Front Page ( 1974 film ), directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau

The Fortune Cookie ( alternative UK title: Meet Whiplash Willie ) is a 1966 film starring Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon in their first on-screen collaboration, and directed by Billy Wilder.

* Irma la Douce ( 1963, by Billy Wilder ), with Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Lou Jacobi.

The signal film in this vein was Double Indemnity, directed by Billy Wilder ; setting the mold was Barbara Stanwyck's unforgettable femme fatale, Phyllis Dietrichson — an apparent nod to Marlene Dietrich, who had built her extraordinary career playing such characters for Sternberg.

Important production centers are the Hallertau in Germany ( which, in 2006, had more hop-growing area than any other country on Earth ), the Yakima ( Washington ) and Willamette ( Oregon ) valleys, and western Canyon County, Idaho ( including the communities of Parma, Wilder, Greenleaf, and Notus ).

Gene Wilder says he had Feldman in mind when he wrote the part.

Additionally, Wilder had a twin brother who died at birth.

In 1938, Max Reinhardt directed a Broadway production of The Merchant of Yonkers, which Wilder had adapted from Austrian playwright Johann Nestroy's Einen Jux will er sich machen ( 1842 ).

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 wondered how they spent their time now that " the parade had passed them by ," and began imagining the story of a star who had lost her celebrity and box-office appeal.

" Wilder had a sign over his office door, which read " How would Lubitsch do it ?".

Gene Wilder had this to say about her death:

Entrance to Laura Ingalls Wilder MuseumThere were 291 households out of which 21. 3 % had children under the age of 18 living with them, 53. 3 % were married couples living together, 6. 5 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 38. 8 % were non-families.

Wilder Penfield, a famous Canadian neurosurgeon had also previously entered Merton College.

Union general John T. Wilder, who in the 1850s had managed a foundry in Indiana, noted the iron ore and coal deposits of the Cumberland Plateau region while operating in the area during the Civil War.

Political pundit David Boaz later commented in Liberty magazine that MacBride was " faithless to Nixon and Agnew, anyway, but faithful to the constitutional principles Rose Wilder Lane had instilled in him.

Wilder later said, " The idea of Mae West was idiotic because we only had to talk to her to find out that she thought she was as great, as desirable, as sexy as she had ever been.

Although Ball of Fire was directed by the by now well-established Howard Hawks, Wilder had already decided that he needed to direct his screenplays to protect them from studio and other director's interference.

Almanzo Wilder had achieved a degree of prosperity on his homestead claim, owing to favorable weather in the early 1880s, and the couple's prospects seemed bright.

By the late 1920s, they had scaled back the farming operation considerably and Wilder had resigned from her positions with the Missouri Ruralist and the Farm Loan Association.

According to her, Mostel is " overacting grotesquely " while co-star Wilder is " wonderful " playing his part " as though he were Dustin Hoffman being played by Danny Kaye.

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.

J. O. Wilder, a Central Pacific-Southern Pacific employee, commented that “ The Chinese were as steady, hard-working a set of men as could be found.

He returns to the others and joins them as they pursue Spender, and Wilder shoots Spender in the chest during the fight before he has the opportunity to be killed by anyone else.

Wilder pales when he and one of his crew realize that Hathaway's son, who gives his age as 23, must be at least in his forties.

In the late 1940s, many of the grand Hollywood houses remained, and Wilder, now a Los Angeles resident, found them to be part of his everyday world.

In the mid-1990s supporters of the idea of incorporating Hickory Withe went to Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee John S. Wilder, who is from nearby Braden and has represented the area in the Tennessee State Senate since 1966, with the idea of sponsoring a bill which would allow Hickory Withe to incorporate, something which could not be accomplished under the then-existing law.

Wilder learned that he could not introduce an act allowing only for the incorporation of Hickory Withe as this would be rejected by the courts as unconstitutional, so it was necessary for any act to help Hickory Withe to incorporate to be worded in a broad enough fashion to allow any similar area in Tennessee which also desired to incorporate to do so as well.

Walnut Grove may be the most recognized name of all the towns Wilder wrote about in her books ( although it is the only town she did not mention by name ) because Michael Landon's television series Little House on the Prairie of the 1970s and 1980s was set here.

The tales of their trials at farming can be found in The First Four Years, a manuscript that was discovered after Rose Wilder Lane's death.

Wilder had an extremely competitive spirit going all the way back to the schoolyard as a child, and she had remarked to many people that she wanted to live to be 90, " because Almanzo had.

In 1990, Douglas Wilder of Virginia became the second African-American state governor ( and the first to be elected to office ).

As guest Artistic Director at AFI FEST 2010, David Lynch selected Tati's Mon Oncle alongside Hour of the Wolf ( Dir Ingmar Bergman ), Lolita ( Dir Stanley Kubrick ), Rear Window ( Dir Alfred Hitchcock ) and Sunset Boulevard ( Dir Billy Wilder ) to be screened in his sidebar program, explaining that ...

Almanzo Wilder, often thought to be a native of nearby Malone, actually grew up on a farm in Burke.

* Almanzo Wilder, is often thought to be a Malone native.

* Almanzo Wilder, is often thought to be a Malone native.

On arrival at Ellis Island he claimed to be Count Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Stroheim und Nordenwall, the son of Austrian nobility like the characters he played in his films, but both Billy Wilder and Stroheim's agent Paul Kohner claimed that he spoke with a decidedly lower-class Austrian accent.

Wilder Penfield wrote a letter to his family after his death saying, " for such there must be an immortality which we who tinker at the body may guess at but not understand.

Instead, Cole tries to provoke the sisters to kill him by sending an assassin after them, knowing that they will be able to recover thanks to their recent contact with Paige's father, whitelighter Sam Wilder ( Scott Jaeck ).

Finally, Wilder wrote that chart formations and areas of support and resistance could sometimes be more easily seen on the RSI chart as opposed to the price chart.

Wilder claims to be grateful to Mostel for teaching him such a valuable lesson, and for picking Wilder up every day so that they could ride to work together.

" It became the place to be, the forum where all the most promising and unconventional young actors were being cultivated by sharp young directors ..." Actors who have worked at the studio include Julie Harris, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Geraldine Page, Maureen Stapleton, Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Patricia Neal, Rod Steiger, Mildred Dunnock, Eva Marie Saint, Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson, Ben Gazzara, Sidney Poitier, Karl Malden, Gene Wilder, Shelley Winters, Dennis Hopper and Sally Field.