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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