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 ).

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 ".

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 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.

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.

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.

As a sign of the political tenor of the times, The God of the Machine was published in the same year as Rand's novel The Fountainhead and Rose Wilder Lane's The Discovery of Freedom.

They include the Newbery Medal for writing, Michael L. Printz Award for writing for teens, Caldecott Medal for illustration, Golden Kite Award in various categories from the SCBWI, Sibert Medal for informational, Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for beginning readers, Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal for impact over time, Batchelder Award for works in translation, Coretta Scott King Award for work by an African-American writer, and the Belpre Medal for work by a Latino writer.

Since 1971, De Smet has hosted a pageant, held over several weekends in July, to honor Laura Ingalls Wilder.

The collection includes: over 3, 000 textile items from the 1920s through the 1990s, including film and stage costumes as well as over a thousand items from Dietrich's personal wardrobe ; 15, 000 photographs, by Cecil Beaton, Horst P. Horst, George Hurrell, Lord Snowdon and Edward Steichen ; 300, 000 pages of documents, including correspondence with Burt Bacharach, Yul Brynner, Maurice Chevalier, Noël Coward, Jean Gabin, Ernest Hemingway, Karl Lagerfeld, Nancy and Ronald Reagan, Erich Maria Remarque, Josef von Sternberg, Orson Welles, and Billy Wilder ; as well as other items like film posters and sound recordings.

* Romancing the StoneVince Deadrick Jr. and Terry Leonard as Joan Wilder and Jack Colton jumped from a car as it fell over an waterfall.

In 1992 he directed the concert film The Michael Nyman Songbook, then made the first of his two documentaries on famous director Billy Wilder, Billy Wilder, How Did You Do It ?, in which he and German critic Hellmut Karasek interviewed Wilder about his career over the course of two weeks in 1988.

The Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal is a prize awarded by the American Library Association ( ALA ) to writers or illustrators of children's books published in the United States who have over a period of years made substantial and lasting contributions to children's literature.

Wilder published short fiction in various periodicals on three continents over a period of twenty-seven years, so it is understandably difficult to keep track of all of her writings.

In total, Diamond and Wilder wrote twelve movies together over 25 years.

However, just after being introduced, Mostel got up, walked over to Wilder, and planted a big kiss on him.

Damon works for his sister at Wilder Advertising, a top San Francisco ad agency, from where they both plot to take over Falcon Crest and ruin Angela for her alleged crimes against their family.

He gets into a very heated debate over the Constitution with Simon Wilder during a class in which, according to the class reaction, Wilder wins.

Wilder was a cycling enthusiast and was a licensed private pilot for over a half-century, continuing occasionally until the end of his legislative career to fly himself 200 miles ( 320 km ) from Fayette County to Nashville for legislative meetings.

When she was passed over in favor of Hedy Lamarr, Billy Wilder cast her for his upcoming project.

The celebration attracted over 2, 000 attendees, including Albert Schweitzer, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Thornton Wilder, and Arthur Rubinstein.

Battisti has been responsible for commissioning and premiering over 50 works for wind ensemble by distinguished American and foreign composers including Warren Benson, Leslie Bassett, Robert Ceely, John Harbison, Robin Holloway, Witold Lutosławski, William Thomas McKinley, Vincent Persichetti, Michael Colgrass, Daniel Pinkham, Gunther Schuller, Robert Selig, Ivan Tcheripnin, Sir Michael Tippett, William Kraft, Robert Ward and Alec Wilder.

* 1990 – Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.

Nebbishy accountant Leo Bloom ( Gene Wilder ) arrives at Bialystock's office to do his books and discovers there is a two thousand dollar overcharge in the accounts of Bialystock's last play, because he raised more money than he needed.

As of the earliest years of the 20th century, the local paper mill was operated by International Paper and Wilder boasted a railroad station, a post office, several retail stores, and electric street lighting.

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

He succeeded John S. Wilder, who held the post continuously from 1971 to 2007, by far the longest tenure of any person in the office.

A member of the Tennessee State Senate, he was elected by his colleagues to serve as the 43rd Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee from 1953 to 1959 and again from 1965 to 1967, longer than any other person except John S. Wilder, who held the office from 1971 to 2007.

Joseph Breen of the Hays Code office strongly objected to the on-screen depiction of a corrupt law enforcement officer and insisted Wilder add dialogue making it clear the man eventually would be made to answer for his actions.

When Marlowe visits the office of Mavis Weld's agent, he describes the agent using language that is virtually identical to his complaint against Wilder:

In 1955 his business, then comprising two coaches and a booking office in Twickenham, was acquired by F. G. Wilder & Sons Ltd. of Feltham.