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Billy Wilder and Jack Lemmon Movies
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Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis
Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe and Billy Wilder
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The Apartment (1960)
Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine
Jack Lemmon, Billy Wilder and Shirley MacLaine
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Irma la Douce (1963)
Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon
Billy Wilder and Jack Lemmon
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Samuel "Billy" Wilder ( June 22, 1906 โ March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist whose career spanned more than five decades. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. With The Apartment, Wilder became the first person to win Academy Awards as producer, director, and screenwriter for the same film.
Wilder became a screenwriter in the late 1920s while living in Berlin. After the rise of the Nazi Party, he left for Paris, where he made his directorial debut. He moved to Hollywood in 1933, and in 1939 he had a hit when he co-wrote the screenplay for the romantic comedy Ninotchka, starring Greta Garbo. Wilder established his directorial reputation with an adaption of James M. Cain's Double Indemnity (1944), a film noir. Wilder co-wrote the screenplay with crime novelist Raymond Chandler. Wilder earned the Best Director and Best Screenplay Academy Awards for the adaptation of a Charles R. Jackson story The Lost Weekend (1945), about alcoholism. In 1950, Wilder co-wrote and directed the critically acclaimed Sunset Boulevard, as well as Stalag 17 in 1953. (Wikipedia)
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