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  Anatomy of a Murder, 183

  in Stalag 17, 143–44, 148, 150, 271, 353

  Prentiss, Paula, 334, 365

  Preston Sturges Award, 343

  Previn, André

  The Fortune Cookie and, 284, 286–87, 361

  Irma la Douce and, 262, 263, 267, 360

  Kiss Me, Stupid and, 273, 361

  One, Two, Three and, 251, 359

  Pride of the Yankees (film), 206

  Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The (film), 295

  Prival, Bert, 351

  Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The (Wilder film), 291, 318, 332, 362–63

  budget, 295, 401n12

  cast, 295–96, 317, 362–63

  characters and plot, 294–95, 300–301, 302–4, 362–63

  critical reception, 297, 304, 315, 321

  as detective film archetype, 304–5

  editing of, 300, 301–2, 305, 362

  flashback in, 3

  homosexuality in, 80, 296–97, 302

  male friendship theme, 282, 295, 296–98, 308, 334

  musical score, 300, 303, 362

  PG rating of, 302

  photography, 298–300, 362

  production crew, 298, 362

  screenplay/shooting script, 294, 295, 296–98, 300, 362

  set design, 298, 304, 362

  sneak previews, 239

  Producers Guild of America, 343

  Pryor, Arthur, 351

  psychoanalysis, 4, 33

  Psychological Warfare Division (PsyWar), U.S. Army, 85, 86, 97, 101

  Public Enemy (film), 193, 215, 250

  Pulver, Lilo, 255, 359

  Quarterly of Film, Radio, and Television, 140

  Queen Kelly (film), 115–16

  Querschnitt, Der [The Cross Section] (journal), 44

  Raab, Leonid, 356, 357

  race and racism, 288–89

  Raffetto, Michael, 352

  Raft, George, 61, 214–15, 227, 250, 358

  Rainer, Luise, 70

  Rare Breed, The (film), 317

  Raskin, Willie, 364

  Rathberg, Bob, 364

  Rathbone, Basil, 141, 294, 304

  Rattray, Eric, 362

  Raw Deal (film), 197

  Ray, Harry, 205, 363

  Raya, Bette, 365

  rear-screen projection, 183

  Reaver, Stan, 183

  Redd, Ferol, 348

  Reddish, Jack, 361

  Redmond, Marge, 362

  Red River (film), 201

  Reed, Carol, 199

  Reed, Don, 362

  Regeneration (film), 122

  Reid, Wallace, 115

  Reis, May, 221

  Reisch, Walter, 10, 12, 22

  Reiss, Stuart A., 355

  Rendine, Aldo, 363

  Renoir, Jean, 44

  Revill, Clive, 296, 317, 321, 362, 363

  Reynolds, Zachary, 114

  Riccio, Rinaldo, 363

  Rice, Milton, 358, 359, 361

  Rich, Ron, 288, 361

  Richardson, Cliff, 362

  Richardson, Tony, 270

  Richter, Kurt, 46–47

  Rickards, Joseph E., 354

  Rigby, Jonathan, 303

  Riva, David, 327

  Riva, Maria, 99–100, 202, 326

  Rizzo, Giacomo, 363

  RKO Studios, 188

  Robbins, Harold, 274

  Roberts, Ralph Arthur, 200, 357

  Robeson, Paul, 75

  Robinson, Bartlett, 356

  Robinson, Edward G., 214, 228, 250

  in Double Indemnity, 61, 62, 349

  Some Like It Hot and, 215

  Robinson, Edward G., Jr., 215, 358

  Robson, Mark, 133

  Roden, Molly, 357

  Rodgers, Richard, 153

  Roe, Raymond, 39, 348

  Rogers, Ginger, 35, 36, 38, 42, 348

  Rogers, Lela, 35, 348

  Roman Holiday (film), 156, 163, 325

  Rommel, Field Marshal Erwin, 42, 43, 44, 46–51, 113, 144

  Roquemore, Joseph, 186

  Rose Tattoo, The (film), 264

  Ross, Frank, 103

  Ross, Stanley, 205

  Rosten, Norman, 220

  Rotter, Fritz, 351

  Rowan, Arthur, 181

  Roxanne, 355

  Rozsa, Miklos, 120, 336

  Double Indemnity and, 51, 63, 70, 349

  Fedora and, 327, 328, 365

  Five Graves to Cairo and, 47, 63, 348

  The Lost Weekend and, 76, 82, 83, 84, 349

  The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes and, 298, 300, 303, 362, 363

  Rugolo, Peter, 365

  Ruman, Sig

  in The Emperor Waltz, 91, 351

  in The Fortune Cookie, 284, 362

  in Ninotchka, 22, 91

  One, Two, Three and, 256

  in Stalag 17, 147, 256, 353

  Russell, Lewis L., 350

  Russell, Rosalind, 308

  Rustichelli, Carlo, 318–19, 363

  Sabrina (Wilder film), 152, 163–64, 165, 345, 354

  Broadway play as basis of, 153–54

  budget, 161

  cast, 155–57, 189, 316, 332, 354

  characters and plot, 162–63

  photography, 157–58, 354

  production as ordeal, 158–61

  screenplay/shooting script, 153–54, 160, 167, 182, 354

  Sabrina Fair: A Woman of the World (Taylor play), 152, 153, 154, 315, 354

  Saddest Music in the World, The (film), 138

  Sadoul, Georges, 49, 50

  Salome (R. Strauss opera), 120

  Salome (Wilde play), 121

  Samson and Delilah (film), 115, 122

  Samuel Goldwyn Studios, 196, 201, 211, 220, 224

  The Apartment and, 235, 237

  The Fortune Cookie and, 285

  Irma la Douce and, 260, 262

  Samuels, Lesser, 130, 141, 353

  Sanders, Troy, 350

  Sarandon, Susan, 311, 364

  Sarris, Andrew

  on The Apartment, 243–44

  on Avanti!, 321

  on Double Indemnity, 59, 75

  on Fedora, 329

  on Five Graves to Cairo, 49

  on A Foreign Affair, 104

  on The Front Page, 315

  on Hawks and Wilder, 30

  on The Lost Weekend, 75, 81

  on One, Two, Three, 258

  on The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, 321

  on Stalag 17, 150

  Satana, Tura, 360

  Saunders, Jack, 364

  Save the Tiger (film), 311

  Savoir, Alfred, 20

  Scarface (film), 214, 215

  Scarfiotti, Ferdinando, 318, 363

  Schamus, James, 242

  Schell, Maximilian, 209

  Schickel, Richard

  on Bogart, 157, 163

  on Double Indemnity, 53, 56, 62, 63, 68

  on Fedora, 331

  Schifrin, Lalo, 336, 365

  Schlöndorff, Volker, 177, 222, 242, 344

  Schlüter, Hennig, 359

  Schmidt, Arthur, 119, 352

  Ace in the Hole and, 133, 353

  Sabrina and, 157, 354

  Some Like It Hot and, 216, 223, 357

  The Spirit of St. Louis and, 183, 355

  Schnitzler, Arthur, 4

  Schorr, William, 119, 353, 356

  Schrader, Paul, 53

  Schubeck, John, 365

  Schüfftan, Eugene, 7

  Schulberg, Stuart, 106

  Scott, Walter M., 355

  Scott, Wayne, 353

  screenplays, 5–6, 345

  Ace in the Hole, 131, 352

  The Apartment, 240, 245, 345, 358, 359

  Avanti!, 363

  Ball of Fire, 189, 308

  Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife, 17, 19–22, 189, 230

  Buddy Buddy, 334, 365

  Double Indemnity, 54–58, 68–69, 349, 373n66, 374n69

  The Emperor Waltz, 90–91, 350

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p; Fedora, 325, 326, 365

  Five Graves to Cairo, 43, 348

  A Foreign Affair, 351

  The Fortune Cookie, 362

  The Front Page, 309–11, 364

  Hold Back the Dawn, 56

  Irma la Douce, 360

  Kiss Me, Stupid, 361

  The Lost Weekend, 70, 72, 74–75, 349

  Love in the Afternoon, 356

  The Major and the Minor, 35

  Mauvaise graine [Bad Seed], 347

  Menschen am Sonntag, 7–9, 31

  Music in the Air, 15, 31, 112, 270

  One, Two, Three, 249, 250–51, 253–54, 359

  The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, 295, 296–98, 300, 362

  Sabrina, 155, 354

  The Seven Year Itch, 354

  Some Like It Hot, 213, 215–16, 230, 345, 357

  Stalag 17, 145–46, 353

  Sunset Boulevard, 109–11, 115, 120, 125, 345, 352

  Witness for the Prosecution, 357

  screenwriters, 55–58, 92, 186–87, 199

  cooperative efforts of, 31

  transition to writer-directors, 31, 36, 345

  Search, The (film), 113

  Seaton, George, 77

  Sebastian, Ray, 205

  Seidman, Steve, 288

  Seitz, John, 101, 117–18

  Double Indemnity and, 51, 62, 66, 70, 119, 349

  Five Graves to Cairo and, 43, 45–46, 66, 119, 348

  The Lost Weekend and, 74, 76, 77, 84, 119, 349

  Sunset Boulevard and, 113, 116–19, 121, 352

  Sellers, Peter, 271, 273, 279, 285, 299, 334

  Selznick, David, 211

  Sennett, Mack, 37

  Sergeant York (film), 76

  Seven, Johnny, 358

  Seven Year Itch, The (Axelrod play), 164–65, 354

  Seven Year Itch, The (Wilder film), 37, 175, 195, 217, 219, 354–55

  Broadway play as basis of, 164–66, 354

  cast, 167, 355

  characters and plot, 166, 172–73, 355

  critical reception, 173, 174

  editing, 171, 355

  Legion of Decency opposition to, 171

  musical score, 174, 355

  opening credits, 171–72

  photography, 35, 168–70, 171

  screenplay/shooting script, 167, 171, 354

  skirt-blowing scene, 168–69, 226

  sexuality

  in Ace in the Hole, 136

  in The Apartment, 231, 233, 243

  in Buddy Buddy, 337, 338, 339

  in Double Indemnity, 54, 59, 64, 65, 70

  in Five Graves to Cairo, 48, 49, 50

  in A Foreign Affair, 98–99

  in Irma la Douce, 266

  in Kiss Me, Stupid, 274–75, 278, 279

  in The Major and the Minor, 34–35, 39

  in One, Two, Three, 256

  in The Seven Year Itch, 166, 168–69, 172–73

  in Some Like It Hot, 224, 226, 227

  in Stalag 17, 144, 145–46

  in Sunset Boulevard, 111, 117

  Wilder and Hollywood’s treatment of, 342

  Shaggy Dog, The (film), 234

  Shakespeare, William, 21, 71, 197, 250

  Shane, Maxwell, 133

  Sharp-Bolster, Anita, 350

  Shaw, David, 98, 351

  Shaw, George Bernard, 342

  Shawlee, Joan

  in The Apartment, 240, 358

  in Buddy Buddy, 334, 365

  in Irma la Douce, 262, 360

  in Some Like It Hot, 215, 240, 334, 358

  Shawley, Robert, 354

  Shayne, Konstantin, 348

  Sheinberg, Sidney, 324–25, 326

  Shelley, Joshua, 364

  Sherlock Holmes (film; 1922), 293–94

  Sherlock Holmes (Gillette play), 293–94

  Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (film), 296

  Shertzinger, Victor, 38

  Shoemaker, Ann, 362

  Shores, Byron, 348

  Shurlock, Geoffrey, 91, 146, 291, 302, 401n4

  The Apartment and, 243

  Irma la Douce and, 260, 264

  Kiss Me, Stupid and, 273–74, 276

  Love in the Afternoon and, 191, 192, 263

  The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes and, 294

  The Seven Year Itch and, 166, 167, 169

  Some Like It Hot and, 223

  Sight and Sound magazine, 8, 125

  Sikov, Ed, 77

  silent cinema, 2, 26, 41, 79, 251

  directors, 113

  in Germany, 5, 8

  Normand scandal, 110

  sexuality in, 117

  stars of, 112, 118, 122, 162

  Silk Stockings (Broadway play), 327

  Sinclair, Upton, 141

  Sinyard, Neil, 185, 232, 244

  Siodmak, Curt, 6–7

  Siodmak, Robert, 6, 8, 9, 151

  Sistrom, Joseph, 33, 53, 54, 55, 57, 349

  Skaerved, Malene Sheppard, 106, 209

  Skye Movies poll, 230

  Smagghe, Andre, 359

  Small, Edward, 196, 197–98, 209, 357

  Smith, Charles, 348

  Smith, Hal, 359

  Smith, Patricia, 356

  Snyder, Ruth, 55, 68

  Some Like It Hot (Wilder film), 12, 101, 239–40, 357–58

  Academy Awards and, 216

  art of female impersonation in, 217–18

  budget, 222

  cast, 213–15, 334, 358

  censorship code and, 264

  characters and plot, 212, 225–29, 358

  critical reception, 224, 228–30

  editing, 218, 223, 357

  Monroe’s difficulties on set of, 218–22, 256, 299

  musical score/songs, 223, 312, 358

  in National Film Registry, 343

  other Wilder films compared with, 243, 245, 250, 309, 311

  photography, 216, 218, 220, 222, 357

  popularity of, 229, 268

  production crew, 216, 357–58

  as remake of German film, 211–12, 357

  screenplay/shooting script, 189, 213, 215–16, 230, 345, 357

  sneak previews, 224

  Somer, Yanti, 363

  Sordi, Alberto, 317

  sound films, arrival of, 8–9, 112, 113, 115, 178

  Sova, Dawn, 263

  Soviet Union, satirized in Ninotchka, 22–23

  Space, Arthur, 356

  special effects, 80, 168

  Spellbound (film), 82

  Sperling, Ronnie, 365

  Spirit of St. Louis, The (Wilder film), 29, 37, 175, 177, 187–88, 261

  budget, 183

  cast, 178–79, 356

  critical reception, 185

  editing, 183, 184, 355

  flashback in, 183, 184, 186

  The Front Page compared with, 309

  musical score, 184, 185, 356

  photography, 181–82, 183, 355

  production crew, 181, 355–56

  screenplay/shooting script, 179–80, 182

  wing-walking stunt in, 184

  Splettstösser, Edwin, 7, 8

  Spoto, Donald, 155, 192

  Spritzler, Raymond, 161

  Staggs, Sam, 119, 151

  on Avanti!, 318

  on Irma la Douce, 267

  on Witness for the Prosecution, 201

  Stalag 17 [Stalag XVII-B] (Bevan-Trzcinski play), 142–45, 154, 353

  Stalag 17 (Wilder film), 213, 271, 353–54

  Academy Awards and, 163

  banned in Germany, 152

  Bevan-Trzcinski play as source, 142–45, 353

  budget, 147–48

  cast, 143–44, 147, 353–54

  characters and plot, 150–51

  male friendship theme, 290

  musical score, 149–50, 151, 353

  as one of Wilder’s favorites, 152

  photography, 145, 148–49, 353

  production crew, 36, 147, 353

  screenplay/shooting script, 145–46, 149, 353

  se
t design, 147–48, 353

  Stalin, Joseph, 23

  Stanwyck, Barbara, 124, 126

  in Ball of Fire, 29, 30

  in Double Indemnity, 61–62, 70, 349

  in Remember the Night, 62

  Star, The (film), 109

  Star Machine, The (Basinger), 208

  Steele, Freddie, 352

  Steele, Gile, 351

  Steinbrunner, Chris, 296–97, 303

  Steinkamp, Fredric, 327, 328, 329, 365

  Stephens, Robert, 293–95, 297, 299–300, 303–4, 362

  Sterling, Jan, 133, 137, 353

  Sternberg, Josef von, 100, 103

  Sternhagen, Frances, 365

  Stevens, George, 100, 167, 190, 263

  Stevens, George, Jr., 141

  Stevens, Naomi, 358

  Stewart, James, 29, 178–86, 317, 356

  Stiller, Mauritz, 41

  Sting, The (film), 311

  St. James, Helen, 75

  St. John, Howard, 256, 359

  Stone, George E., 214, 225, 358

  Stone, Robinson, 353–54

  Stothart, Herbert, 358

  Stradling, Harry, Jr., 335, 365

  Strasberg, Lee, 170, 174

  Strasberg, Paula, 170, 174, 219, 220

  Stratton, Gil, Jr., 149, 354

  Strauss, Johann, 89, 93, 350

  Strauss, Richard, 4, 120, 352

  Strauss, Robert, 147, 167, 353, 355

  Streetcar Named Desire, A (film), 165, 334

  Stroheim, Erich von, 12, 99, 115, 161, 225

  in Five Graves to Cairo, 43–45, 46, 50, 144, 348

  on realism in cinema, 341

  in Sunset Boulevard, 51, 113, 117, 125, 126, 214, 352

  Stuart, Arlen, 361

  Studlar, Gaylyn, 70

  Stunde, Die [The Hour] (Viennese tabloid), 3

  stunt men, 184, 284

  Sturges, Preston, 24, 345

  break with Paramount, 70

  career decline of, 97

  on cheating, 269

  on chivalry, 231

  The Lady Eve, 36

  Remember the Night and, 62

  on screenwriters, 31

  Sullivan, Father Patrick, 243, 264, 274, 290

  “Sunny Goes Home” (Kilbourne), 33, 347

  Sunset Boulevard (Wilder film), 25, 51, 131, 147, 332, 352

  Academy Awards and, 119, 125–26

  cast, 111–16, 122, 214, 327, 352

  characters and plot, 121–24, 233, 352

  critical reception, 125, 126

  editing, 37, 118–19, 157, 352

  flashback in, 121, 329

  musical score, 119–20, 121, 352

  in National Film Registry, 343

  as one of Wilder’s favorites, 152

  other Wilder films compared with, 198, 289, 322, 325

  photography, 116–18, 352

  production crew, 116, 119

  rear-screen projection in, 183

  screenplay/shooting script, 109–11, 115, 120, 125, 155, 345, 352

  set design, 116, 117, 352

  sneak previews, 120–21

  Swanson, Gloria, 17, 214

  as producer of Sunset Boulevard, 115

  in Sunset Boulevard, 112, 114, 116, 117–18, 124, 352

  Swanson, H. N., 54

  Tales of Hoffman (film), 298

  Talking Pictures (Corliss), 104