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  Script: Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, based on the novel by Charles R. Jackson

  Director of Photography: John F. Seitz

  Process Photography: Farciot Edouart

  Special Photographic Effects: Gordon Jennings

  Editor: Doane Harrison

  Production Designers: Hans Dreier and Earl Hedrick

  Set Decorator: Bertram Granger (supervisor on operatic sequence: Armando Agnini)

  Music: Miklos Rosza; overture and opening aria of Verdi’s La traviata

  Musical Director: Victor Young

  Song: “Libiamo” from La traviata, sung by John Garris and Thedora Lynch

  Sound: Stanley Cooley

  Medical Adviser: Dr. George N. Thompson

  Cast: Ray Milland (Don Birnam), Jane Wyman (Helen St. James), Phillip Terry (Wick Birnam), Howard Da Silva (Nat, the bartender), Doris Dowling (Gloria), Frank Faylen (“Bim” Nolan, the nurse), Mary Young (Mrs. Deveridge), Anita Sharp-Bolster (Mrs. Foley, the cleaning lady), Lillian Fontaine (Mrs. St. James), Frank Orth (opera attendant), Lewis L. Russell (Mr. St. James), Clarence Muse (washroom attendant), Fred Toones (washroom attendant)

  Released: November 1945

  Running Time: 99 min.

  The Emperor Waltz (1948)

  Production Company: Paramount

  Producer: Charles Brackett

  Production Manager: Hugh Brown

  Director: Billy Wilder

  Assistant Director: C. C. Coleman Jr.

  Script: Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder

  Script Supervisor: Ronald Lubin

  Director of Photography: George Barnes

  Color Process: Technicolor

  Process Photography: Farciot Edouart

  Camera Operator: Lathrop Worth

  Special Photographic Effects: Gordon Jennings

  Editor: Doane Harrison

  Production Designers: Franz Bachelin and Hans Dreier

  Set Decorators: Sam Comer and Paul Huldschinsky

  Music: Victor Young

  Musical Associate: Troy Sanders

  Vocal Arrangements: Joseph J. Lilley

  Songs: “The Emperor Waltz,” melody based on music by Johann Strauss, lyrics by Johnny Burke; “Friendly Mountain,” melody based on Swiss airs, lyrics by Johnny Burke; “Get Yourself a Phonograph,” music by James Van Huesen, lyrics by Johnny Burke; “A Kiss in Your Eyes,” music by Richard Heuberger, lyrics by Johnny Burke; “I Kiss Your Hand, Madame” and “The Whistler and His Dog,” music by Ralph Erwin and Fritz Rotter, lyrics by Arthur Pryor

  Costumes: Edith Head and Gile Steele

  Choreography: Billy Daniels

  Sound: Stanley Cooley and John Cope

  Cast: Bing Crosby (Virgil Smith), Joan Fontaine (Johanna Augusta Franziska von Stoltzenberg-Stoltzenberg), Roland Culver (Baron Holenia), Lucile Watson (Princess Bitotska), Richard Haydn (Emperor Franz Josef), Harold Vermilyea (chamberlain), Sig Ruman (Dr. Zwieback), Julia Dean (Archduchess Stephanie), Bert Prival (chauffeur), John Goldsworthy (obersthofmeister), Doris Dowling (Tyrolean girl)

  Released: July 1948

  Running Time: 106 min.

  A Foreign Affair (1948)

  Production Company: Paramount

  Producer: Charles Brackett

  Production Manager: Hugh Brown

  Director: Billy Wilder

  Assistant Director: C. C. Coleman Jr.

  Script: Richard Breen, Charles Brackett, and Billy Wilder, based on an original story by David Shaw

  Script Supervisor: Harry Hogan

  Director of Photography: Charles B. Lang Jr.

  Process Photography: Farciot Edouart and Dewey Wrigley

  Camera Operator: Guy Bennett

  Special Photographic Effects: Gordon Jennings

  Editor: Doane Harrison

  Production Designers: Hans Dreier and Walter Tyler

  Set Decorators: Sam Comer and Ross Dowd

  Music: Frederick Hollander

  Musical Director: Frederick Hollander

  Songs: “Black Market” and “Illusions,” music and lyrics by Frederick Hollander, sung by Marlene Dietrich

  Costumes: Edith Head

  Sound: Hugo Grenzbach and Walter Oberst

  Cast: Jean Arthur (Phoebe Frost), Marlene Dietrich (Erika von Schluetow), John Lund (Captain John Pringle), Millard Mitchell (Colonel Rufus J. Plummer), Peter von Zerneck (Hans Otto Birgel), Stanley Prager (Mike), William Murphy (Joe), Raymond Bond (Pennecot), Boyd Davis (Giffin), Robert Malcolm (Kramer), Charles Meredith (Yandell), Michael Raffetto (Salvatore), Damian O’Flynn (Lieutenant Hornby), Harland Tucker (General McAndrew), William Neff (Lieutenant Lee Thompson), George M. Carleton (General Finney), Gordon Jones (first MP), Freddie Steele (second MP), Bobby Watson (Hitler)

  Released: August 1948

  Running Time: 116 min.

  Sunset Boulevard (1950)

  Production Company: Paramount

  Producer: Charles Brackett

  Director: Billy Wilder

  Assistant Director: C. C. Coleman Jr.

  Script: Charles Brackett, D. M. Marshman Jr., and Billy Wilder

  Director of Photography: John F. Seitz

  Process Photography: Farciot Edouart

  Special Photographic Effects: Gordon Jennings

  Editorial Supervisor: Doane Harrison

  Editor: Arthur Schmidt

  Production Designers: Hans Dreier and John Meehan

  Set Decorators: Sam Comer and Ray Moyer

  Music: Franz Waxman; “Salome’s Dance of the Veils” by Richard Strauss

  Sound: John Cope and Harry Lindgren

  Cast: William Holden (Joe Gillis), Gloria Swanson (Norma Desmond), Erich von Stroheim (Max von Mayerling), Nancy Olson (Betty Schaefer), Cecil B. De Mille (himself), Fred Clark (Sheldrake), Lloyd Gough (Morino), Jack Webb (Artie Green), Franklyn Farnum (undertaker), Larry J. Blake (first finance man), Charles Dayton (second finance man), Hedda Hopper (herself), Buster Keaton (himself), Anna Q. Nilsson (herself), H. B. Warner (himself), Ray Evans (himself), Jay Livingston (himself)

  Released: August 1950

  Running Time: 111 min.

  Ace in the Hole (1951), originally released as The Big Carnival

  Production Company: Paramount

  Producer: Billy Wilder

  Associate Producer: William Schorr

  Director: Billy Wilder

  Assistant Director: C. C. Coleman Jr.

  Script: Walter Newman, Lesser Samuels, and Billy Wilder

  Director of Photography: Charles B. Lang Jr.

  Editors: Doane Harrison and Arthur Schmidt

  Production Designers: Earl Hedrick and Hal Pereira

  Music: Hugo Friedhofer

  Song: “We’re Coming, Leo,” music by Ray Evans, lyrics by Jay Livingston

  Professional Advisers (Journalists): Dan Burroughs, Will Harrison, Harold Hubbard, Wayne Scott, and Agnes Underwood

  Sound: John Cope and Harold Lewis

  Cast: Kirk Douglas (Charles Tatum), Jan Sterling (Lorraine), Robert Arthur (Herbie Cook), Porter Hall (Jacob Q. Boot), Richard Benedict (Leo Minosa), Ray Teal (sheriff), Gene Evans (deputy), Frank Cady (Mr. Federber), Frank Jaquet (Smollett), Iron Eyes Cody (copy boy)

  Released: July 1951

  Running Time: 111 min.

  Stalag 17 (1953)

  Production Company: Paramount

  Producer: Billy Wilder

  Associate Producer: William Schorr

  Director: Billy Wilder

  Assistant Director: C. C. Coleman Jr.

  Script: Edwin Blum and Billy Wilder, based on the play by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski

  Director of Photography: Ernest Laszlo

  Special Photographic Effects: Gordon Jennings

  Editorial Advisor: Doane Harrison

  Editor: George Tomasini

  Production Designers: Franz Bachelin and Hal Pereira

  Music: Franz Waxman

  Sound: Gene Garvin and Harold Lewis

  Cast: William Holden (Se
fton), Don Taylor (Lieutenant Dunbar), Otto Preminger (Colonel von Scherbach), Robert Strauss (Stosh “Animal” Krusawa), Harvey Lembeck (Harry Shapiro), Richard Erdman (Hoffy), Peter Graves (Price), Neville Brand (Duke), Sig Ruman (Schulz), Michael Moore (Manfredi), Peter Baldwin (Jonson), Robinson Stone (Joey), Robert Shawley (Blondie), William Pierson (Marko), Gil Stratton Jr. (Cookie), Jay Lawrence (Bagradian), Erwin Kalser (Geneva man), Edmund Trzcinski (Triz), Tommy Cook (prisoner)

  Released: July 1953

  Running Time: 121 min.

  Sabrina (1954)

  Production Company: Paramount

  Producer: Billy Wilder

  Director: Billy Wilder

  Assistant Director: C. C. Coleman Jr.

  Script: Ernest Lehman, Samuel Taylor, and Billy Wilder, based on the play Sabrina Fair by Samuel Taylor

  Director of Photography: Charles B. Lang Jr.

  Editorial Adviser: Doane Harrison

  Editor: Arthur Schmidt

  Production Designers: Hal Pereira and Walter Tyler

  Music: Frederick Hollander

  Sound: John Cope, Harold Lewis

  Cast: Audrey Hepburn (Sabrina Fairchild), Humphrey Bogart (Linus Larrabee), William Holden (David Larrabee), Walter Hampden (Oliver Larrabee), John Williams (Thomas Fairchild), Martha Hyer (Elizabeth Tyson), Joan Vohs (Gretchen Van Horn), Marcel Dalio (Baron St. Fontanel), Marcel Hillaire (the professor), Nella Walker (Maude Larrabee), Francis X. Bushman (Tyson), Ellen Corby (Miss McCardle), Marjorie Bennett (Margaret, the cook), Emory Parnell (Charles, the butler), Nancy Kulp (Jenny, the maid), Paul Harvey (doctor)

  Released: September 1954

  Running Time: 114 min.

  The Seven Year Itch (1955)

  Production Company: Twentieth Century–Fox; a Feldman Group Production

  Producers: Charles K. Feldman and Billy Wilder

  Associate Producer: Doane Harrison

  Director: Billy Wilder

  Assistant Director: Joseph E. Rickards

  Script: George Axelrod and Billy Wilder, based on the play by George Axelrod

  Director of Photography: Milton Krasner (CinemaScope)

  Color Process: DeLuxe Color

  Color Consultant: Leonard Doss

  Special Photographic Effects: Ray Kellogg

  Editor: Hugh S. Fowler

  Production Designers: George W. Davis and Lyle Wheeler

  Set Decorators: Stuart A. Reiss and Walter M. Scott

  Music: Alfred Newman; Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto no. 2

  Title Design: Saul Bass

  Sound: Harry M. Leonard and E. Clayton Ward

  Cast: Marilyn Monroe (the Girl), Tom Ewell (Richard Sherman), Evelyn Keyes (Helen Sherman), Sonny Tufts (Tom MacKenzie), Robert Strauss (Kruhulik), Oskar Homolka (Dr. Brubaker), Marguerite Chapman (Miss Morris), Victor Moore (plumber), Roxanne (Elaine), Donald MacBride (Mr. Brady), Carolyn Jones (Miss Finch), Butch Bernard (Ricky)

  Released: June 1955

  Running Time: 105 min.

  The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)

  Production Company: Warner Bros.

  Producers: Leland Hayward and Billy Wilder

  Associate Producer: Doane Harrison

  Production Consultant: Charles Eames

  Production Manager: Norman Cook

  Production Manager (France): Jean-Marie Loutrel

  Director: Billy Wilder

  Assistant Directors: C. C. Coleman Jr. and Don Page

  Script: Wendell Mayes and Billy Wilder, based on the book by Charles A. Lindbergh

  Directors of Photography: Robert Burks and J. Peverell Marley (CinemaScope)

  Color Process: WarnerColor

  Aerial Photographic Adviser: Ted McCord

  Aerial Photography: Thomas Tutwiler

  Aerial Supervisor: Paul Mantz

  Editor: Arthur P. Schmidt

  Production Designer: Art Loel

  Set Decorator: William L. Kuehl

  Special Effects: H. F. Koenekamp and Louis Lichtenfield

  Music: Franz Waxman

  Musical Director: Franz Waxman

  Orchestration: Leonid Raab

  Sound: M. A. Merrick

  Technical Advisers: Major-General Victor Bertrandrias (U.S. Air Force, retired) and Harlan A. Gurney

  Cast: James Stewart (Charles Augustus Lindbergh), Murray Hamilton (Bud Gurney), Patricia Smith (mirror girl), Bartlett Robinson (B. F. Mahoney), Marc Connelly (Father Hussman), Arthur Space (Donald Hall), Charles Watts (O. W. Schultz), Dabbs Greer (Goldsborough), Robert Cornthwaite (Knight), Robert Burton (Major Lambert), Richard Deacon (Levine)

  Released: April 1957

  Running Time: 135 min.

  Love in the Afternoon (1957)

  Production Company: Allied Artists

  Producer: Billy Wilder

  Associate Producers: Doane Harrison and William Schorr

  Director: Billy Wilder

  Second Unit Director: Noel Howard

  Assistant Director: Paul Feyder

  Script: I. A. L. Diamond and Billy Wilder, based on the novel Ariane by Claude Anet

  Director of Photography: William Mellor

  Editor: Leonid Azar

  Production Designer: Alexander Trauner

  Musical Adviser: Matty Malneck

  Musical Adaptation: Franz Waxman, “Fascination,” music by F. D. Marchetti, lyrics by Maurice de Ferauldy

  Sound Editor: Del Harris

  Sound: Jo de Bretagne

  Cast: Gary Cooper (Frank Flannagan), Audrey Hepburn (Ariane Chavasse), Maurice Chevalier (Claude Chavasse), Van Doude (Michel), John McGiver (Monsieur X), Lise Bourdin (Madame X), Bonifas (commissioner of police), Alexander Trauner (artist), Audrey Wilder (brunette)

  Released: June 1957

  Running Time: 125 min.

  Witness for the Prosecution (1958)

  Production Company: Edward Small/United Artists

  Producer: Arthur Hornblow Jr.

  Director: Billy Wilder

  Assistant Director: Emmett Emerson

  Script: Harry Kurnitz and Billy Wilder, based on the play and story by Agatha Christie

  Director of Photography: Russell Harlan

  Editor: Daniel Mandell

  Production Designer: Alexander Trauner

  Set Decorator: Howard Bristol

  Music: Matty Malneck

  Musical Director: Ernest Gold

  Orchestration: Leonid Raab

  Song: “I May Never Go Home Anymore,” music by Ralph Arthur Roberts, lyrics by Jack Brooks

  Sound: Fred Lau

  Cast: Tyrone Power (Leonard Vole), Marlene Dietrich (Christine Vole), Charles Laughton (Sir Wilfrid Robarts), Elsa Lanchester (Miss Plimsoll), John Williams (Brogan-Moore), Henry Daniell (Mayhew), Ian Wolfe (Carter), Torin Thatcher (Mr. Myers), Norma Varden (Mrs. French), Una O’Connor (Janet McKenzie), Francis Compton (judge), Philip Tonge (Inspector Hearne), Ruta Lee (Diana), Marjorie Eaton (Miss O’Brien), Ottola Nesmith (Miss Johnson), J. Pat O’Malley (shorts salesman), Molly Roden (Miss McHugh)

  Released: February 1958

  Running Time: 116 min.

  Some Like It Hot (1959)

  Production Company: Mirisch Company/United Artists

  Producer: Billy Wilder

  Associate Producers: I. A. L. Diamond and Doane Harrison

  Director: Billy Wilder

  Assistant Director: Sam Nelson

  Script: I. A. L. Diamond and Billy Wilder, based on the film Fanfaren der Liebe by Michael Logan and Robert Thoeren

  Director of Photography: Charles B. Lang Jr.

  Editor: Arthur Schmidt

  Production Designer: Ted Haworth

  Set Decorator: Edward G. Boyle

  Music: Adolph Deutsch

  Song Supervisor: Matty Malneck

  Songs: “Running Wild,” music by A. H. Gibbs, lyrics by Leo Wood; “I Want to Be Loved by You,” music by Herbert Stothart, lyrics by Bert Kalmar; “I’m Through with Love,” music by Matty Malneck, lyrics by Gus Kahn

  Sound: Fred
Lau

  Cast: Marilyn Monroe (Sugar Kane, née Kowalczyk), Tony Curtis (Joe/ Josephine), Jack Lemmon (Jerry/Daphne), Joe E. Brown (Osgood Fielding III), George Raft (Spats Colombo), Pat O’Brien (Mulligan), Nehemiah Persoff (Little Bonaparte), Joan Shawlee (Sweet Sue), Billy Gray (Sig Poliakoff), George E. Stone (Toothpick Charlie), Dave Barry (Beinstock), Mike Mazurki (Spats’s henchman), Harry Wilson (Spats’s henchman), Beverly Wills (Dolores), Barbara Drew (Nellie), Edward G. Robinson Jr. (Paradise), Marian Collier (Olga)

  Released: March 1959

  Running Time: 121 min.

  The Apartment (1960)

  Production Company: Mirisch Company/United Artists

  Producer: Billy Wilder

  Associate Producers: I. A. L. Diamond and Doane Harrison

  Production Manager: Allen K. Wood

  Director: Billy Wilder

  Assistant Director: Hal Polaire

  Script: I. A. L. Diamond and Billy Wilder

  Director of Photography: Joseph LaShelle (Panavision)

  Editor: Daniel Mandell

  Production Designer: Alexander Trauner

  Set Decorator: Edward G. Boyle

  Special Effects: Milton Rice

  Sound: Fred Lau

  Music: Adolph Deutsch

  Cast: Jack Lemmon (C. C. “Bud” Baxter), Shirley MacLaine (Fran Kubelik), Fred MacMurray (Jeff D. Sheldrake), Ray Walston (Joe Dobisch), Jack Kruschen (Dr. Dreyfuss), David Lewis (Al Kirkeby), Hope Holiday (Margie MacDougall), Joan Shawlee (Sylvia), Naomi Stevens (Mrs. Mildred Dreyfuss), Johnny Seven (Karl Matuschka), Joyce Jameson (the blonde), Willard Waterman (Mr. Vanderhof), David White (Mr. Eichelberger), Edie Adams (Miss Olsen), Benny Burt (bartender), Frances Weintraub Lax (Mrs. Lieberman), Hal Smith (Santa Claus)

  Released: June 1960

  Running Time: 125 min.

  One, Two, Three (1961)

  Production Company: Mirisch Company/United Artists

  Producer: Billy Wilder

  Associate Producers: I. A. L. Diamond and Doane Harrison

  Production Managers: William Calihan and Werner Fischer

  Director: Billy Wilder

  Second Unit Director: Andre Smagghe

  Assistant Director: Tom Pevsner

  Script: I. A. L. Diamond and Billy Wilder, based on the play Ein, zwei, drei by Ferenc Molnar