Starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder, the film was written by Brooks, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, and Al Uger, and was based on Bergman's story and draft.

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.

The film was written by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett and is playfully based on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

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.

He also complained about the script, which was written on a last-minute, daily basis, and that Wilder favored Hepburn and Holden on and off the set.

The main problem was that Wilder was the opposite of his ideal director, John Huston, in both style and personality.

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

The ceremony was attended by some of Hollywood's biggest stars, including Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Judy Garland, David Niven, Ronald Reagan, James Mason, Bette Davis, Danny Kaye, Joan Fontaine, Marlene Dietrich, James Cagney, Errol Flynn, Gregory Peck and Gary Cooper, as well as Billy Wilder and Jack Warner.

One of the first loads was taken by Samuel Gardner Wilder.

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.

He was hand-picked by Billy Wilder to play a hard-driving Coca-Cola executive in the film One, Two, Three.

Cagney received assurances from Wilder that the script was balanced.

It found use on most Depeche Mode albums in which band member Alan Wilder was involved.

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.

Thornton Niven Wilder ( April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975 ) was an American playwright and novelist.

Wilder was born in Madison, Wisconsin, the son of Amos Parker Wilder, a US diplomat, and Isabella Niven Wilder.

Thornton Wilder's older brother, Amos Niven Wilder, was Hollis Professor of Divinity at the Harvard Divinity School, a noted poet, and foundational to the development of the field theopoetics.

His sister, Isabel Wilder, was an accomplished writer.

Wilder began writing plays while at The Thacher School in Ojai, California, where he did not fit in and was teased by classmates as overly intellectual.

* 1867 – Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author ( d. 1957 )

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.

* 1930 – Cherry Wilder, New Zealand author ( d. 2002 )

* February 10 – Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author ( b. 1867 )

* January 10 – Mary Amelia Ingalls, blind older sister of author Laura Ingalls Wilder ( d. October 20, 1928 )

** Rose Wilder Lane, American author and reporter ( b. 1886 )

* August 3 – Carrie Ingalls, younger sister of author Laura Ingalls Wilder ( d. 1946 )

* May 23 – Grace Ingalls, youngest sister of author Laura Ingalls Wilder ( d. 1941 )

* December 5 – Rose Wilder Lane, American author ( d. 1968 )

* December 12 – Caroline Lake Ingalls, née Quiner, mother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder ( d. 1924 )

* September 3 – Cherry Wilder, New Zealand author ( d. 2002 )

* January 10 – Charles Phillip Ingalls, Pioneer father of author Laura Ingalls Wilder ( d. June 8, 1902 )

In her novella The First Four Years, American author Laura Ingalls Wilder refers to rhubarb as " pie plant ".

Gary's first wife was the British writer, journalist, and Vogue editor Lesley Blanch ( author of The Wilder Shores of Love ).

Walnut Grove is the home of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum, dedicated to the author of the Little House on the Prairie books.

* Laura Ingalls Wilder, author

De Smet was the childhood home of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the supercentenarian Walter Breuning, and the birthplace of author Rose Wilder Lane.

Carrie Ingalls ( sister of Little House on the Prairie author Laura Ingalls Wilder ) spent a significant part of her adult life there, living with her husband David N. Swanzey and his children.

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.

* February 10-Laura Ingalls Wilder, author

Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder ( February 7, 1867 – February 10, 1957 ) was an American author who wrote the Little House series of books based on her childhood in a pioneer family.