Some Like It Wilder Page 61
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