Selected Bibliography
Ace in the Hole. Souvenir program. Criterion Collection, 2007.
Agee, James. Film Writing and Selected Journalism. Edited by Michael Sragow. New York: Library of America, 2005.
Allyn, John. “Double Indemnity: A Policy That Paid Off.” Literature/Film Quarterly 6, no. 2 (1978): 119–22.
Arce, Hector. The Secret Life of Tyrone Power. New York: Morrow, 1979.
Armstrong, Richard. Billy Wilder: American Film Realist. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004.
Axelrod, George. Interview by Patrick McGilligan. Film Comment 31, no. 6 (1995): 10–24.
——. The Seven Year Itch. New York: Dramatist Play Service, 1953.
Bach, Steven. Marlene Dietrich: Life and Legend. New York: Morrow, 1992.
Baltake, Joe. Jack Lemmon: His Films and Career. New York: Citadel, 1986.
Barnes, Alan, ed. Sherlock Holmes on Screen: The Complete Film and TV History. London: Reynolds and Hearn, 2008.
Barnett, Lincoln. “The Happiest Couple in Hollywood.” Life, December 11, 1944, 100–109.
Barrios, Richard. Screened Out: Playing Gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewall. New York: Routledge, 2003.
Berg, Scott. Lindbergh. New York: Putnam, 1998.
Bergman, Paul, and Michael Asimow. Reel Justice: The Courtroom Goes to the Movies. Kansas City, MO: Andrews and McMeel, 1996.
Bevan, Donald, and Edmund Trzcinski. Stalag 17. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1951.
Black, Gregory D. The Catholic Crusade against the Movies, 1940–1975. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Blume, Mary. “Fedora: Walking on the Wilder Side.” Los Angeles Times Calendar, October 2, 1977, 39.
Bogdanovich, Peter. Who the Devil Made It: Conversations with Film Directors. New York: Ballantine Books, 1998.
——. Who the Hell’s in It: Conversations with Hollywood’s Legendary Actors. New York: Ballantine Books, 2006.
Bould, Mark. Film Noir: From Berlin to Sin City. Irvington, NY: Columbia University Press, 2006.
Bradshaw, Jon. “I Am Big. It’s the Pictures That Got Small.” New York, November 24, 1975, 39–43.
Brown, Daniel. “Wilde and Wilder.” PMLA 119, no. 5 (2004): 1216–30.
Cagney, James. Cagney by Cagney. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1976.
Cain, James M. Double Indemnity. New York: Vintage, 1992.
Callow, Simon. Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor. New York: Grove Press, 1987.
Cameron, Ian, ed. The Book of Film Noir. New York: Continuum, 1992.
Carnes, Mark, ed. Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies. New York: Holt, 1995.
Carr, Jay, ed. The A List: 100 Essential Films. New York: Da Capo, 2002.
Chandler, Charlotte. Nobody’s Perfect: Billy Wilder, a Personal Biography. New York: Applause Books, 2004.
Chandler, Raymond. Later Novels and Other Writings. Edited by Frank MacShane. New York: Library of America, 1995.
——. The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Non-fiction, 1909–1959. Edited by Tom Hiney and Frank MacShane. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000.
Chierichetti, David. Hollywood Director: Mitchell Leisen. Los Angeles: Photoventures Press, 1995.
Christie, Agatha. Witness for the Prosecution. In The Mousetrap and Other Plays, 337–422. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1978.
Churchwell, Sarah. The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe. New York: Holt, 2006.
Conrad, Mark, ed. The Philosophy of Film Noir. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006.
Corliss, Richard. “The King of Comedy: Billy Wilder.” Time, April 8, 2002, 70–71.
Cornes, Judy. Alcohol in the Movies, 1898–1962: A Critical History. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006.
Crowe, Cameron. Conversations with Wilder. New York: Knopf, 2001.
Curtis, Tony, with Mark Vieria. The Making of Some Like It Hot. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2009.
Dassanowsky-Harris, Robert. “Billy Wilder’s Germany.” Pts. 1 and 2. Films in Review 41, no. 5 (1990): 292–97; nos. 6–7 (1990): 352–55.
Diamond, I. A. L. “The Day Marilyn Monroe Needed 47 Takes to Remember to Say, ‘Where’s the Bourbon?’ ” California, December 1985, 132.
——. Interview by Adrian Turner. Films and Filming, May 1982, 16–21. Dick, Bernard. Billy Wilder. Rev. ed. New York: Da Capo, 1996.
——. Claudette Colbert: She Walked in Beauty. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2008.
Dietrich, Marlene. Marlene. New York: Avon, 1990.
Doherty, Thomas. Hollywood’s Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.
Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Complete Sherlock Holmes. New York: Doubleday, 2007.
Dunne, John Gregory. “The Old Pornographer: Billy Wilder.” New Yorker, November 8, 1999, 88–95.
Ebert, Roger. The Great Movies. New York: Broadway Books, 2002.
Eliot, Marc. Jimmy Stewart: A Biography. New York: Random House, 2006.
Everson, William K. Hollywood Bedlam: Classic Screwball Comedies. New York: Carol, 1994.
Eyles, Allen. Sherlock Holmes: A Centenary Celebration. New York: Harper and Row, 1986.
Eyman, Scott. Ernst Lubitsch: Laughter in Paradise. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.
Farber, Stephen. “The Films of Billy Wilder.” Film Comment 7, no. 1 (1971–1972): 8–22.
Fishgall, Gary. Pieces of Times: The Life of James Stewart. New York: Scribner, 1997.
Fleishman, Avrom. Narrated Films: Storytelling Situations in Cinema History. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1992.
Freeman, David. “Sunset Boulevard Revisited.” New Yorker, June 21, 1993, 72–79.
Gehman, Richard. “Charming Billy.” Playboy, December 1960, 69–70, 90, 145–48.
Geiger, Jeffrey, and R. L. Rutsky, eds. Film Analysis. New York: Norton, 2005.
Gemünden, Gerd. A Foreign Affair: Billy Wilder’s American Films. New York: Berghahn Books, 2008.
Giannetti, Louis. Understanding Movies. 11th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008.
Goodman, Ezra. The Fifty-Year Decline and Fall of Hollywood. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961.
Gorman, Ed, Lee Server, and Martin Greenberg, eds. The Big Book of Noir. New York: Carroll and Graf, 1998.
Greene, Graham. The Graham Greene Reader: Reviews, Essays, and Interviews. Edited by David Parkinson. New York: Applause Books, 1995.
Gross, Miriam, ed. The World of Raymond Chandler. New York: A and W, 1978.
Haberski, Raymond J., Jr. Freedom to Offend. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007.
Halliwell, Leslie. Film Guide. Rev. ed. Edited by David Gritten. New York: HarperCollins, 2008.
——. Who’s Who in the Movies. Rev. ed. Edited by John Walker. New York: HarperCollins, 2005.
Hare, William. Early Film Noir. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2003.
Harmetz, Aljean. “Billy Wilder: The Storyteller.” Modern Maturity, February–March 1993, 31.
Haut, Woody. Heartbreak and Vine: Hardboiled Writers in Hollywood. London: Serpent’s Tail, 2002.
Hecht, Ben, and Charles MacArthur. The Front Page. In Sixteen Famous American Plays, edited by Bennett Cerf and Van Cartmell, 71–140. New York: Modern Library, 1941.
Higham, Charles. Charles Laughton. New York: Doubleday, 1976.
Higham, Charles, and Joel Greenberg. The Celluloid Muse: Hollywood Directors Speak. Chicago: Regnery, 1969.
Hirsch, Foster. The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir. Rev. ed. New York: Da Capo, 2009.
——. Otto Preminger. New York: Knopf, 2007.
Hopp, Glenn. Billy Wilder: The Cinema of Wit. Los Angeles: Taschen, 2003.
Horton, Robert, ed. Billy Wilder: Interviews. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001.
——. “Music Man: Miklos Rozsa.” Film Comment 31, no. 6 (1995): 2–4.
Irwin, John. Unless the Threat of Death Is behind Them: Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Jackson, Charles. The Lost Weekend. New York: Time, 1963.
Kael, Pauline. 5001 Nights at the Movies. New York: Holt, 1991.
——. I Lost It at the Movies: Film Writings, 1954–1965. New York: Boyars, 1994.
——. Reeling. New York: Warner Books, 1977.
Kakutani, Michiko. “Ready for His Close-Up.” New York Times Magazine, July 28, 1996, 14.
Kanin, Garson. Hollywood: Moviemakers and Moneymakers. New York: Viking, 1974.
Karasek, Hellmuth. Billy Wilder: Eine Nahaufnahme [Billy Wilder: A close-up]. Hamburg: Hoffman und Campe, 1992.
Katz, Ephraim. The Film Encyclopedia. Rev. ed. Edited by Fred Klein and Ronald Nolen. New York: HarperCollins, 2005.
Kirkham, Pat. “Saul Bass and Billy Wilder in Conversation.” Sight and Sound, n.s., 5, no. 6 (1995): 18–21.
Kiszely, Philip. Hollywood through Private Eyes: The Screen Adaptation of the Hard-Boiled Private Detective Novel in the Studio Era. New York: Lang, 2006.
Koszarski, Richard, ed. Hollywood Directors, 1914–1940. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.
——, ed. Hollywood Directors, 1941–1976. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
——. Von: The Life and Times of Erich von Stroheim. New York: Limelight, 2001.
Kurnitz, Harry. “Billy the Wild.” Holiday, June 1964, 93–95.
Lally, Kevin. Wilder Times: The Life of Billy Wilder. New York: Holt, 1996.
Leaming, Barbara. Marilyn Monroe. New York: Random House, 1998.
Lemmon, Chris. A Twist of Lemmon: A Tribute to My Father. New York: Algonquin Books, 2006.
Lennig, Arthur. Stroheim. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000.
Lindbergh, Charles. The Spirit of St. Louis. New York: Scribner, 1953.
Lopate, Phillip, ed. American Movie Critics: An Anthology from the Silents until Now. New York: Library of America, 2008.
Madsen, Axel. Billy Wilder. London: Secker and Warburg, 1968.
Maltin, Leonard, ed. Movie Guide. Rev. ed. New York: New American Library, 2009.
Mast, Gerald, and Bruce Kawin. A Short History of the Movies. Rev. ed. New York: Longman, 2008.
McBride, Joseph. “In the Picture: The Front Page.” Sight and Sound 43, no. 3 (1974): 212.
McCarter, Jeremy. “Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes.” New York Times Book Review, December 30, 2007, 15.
McGee, Rex. “The Life and Hard Times of Fedora.” American Film, February 1979, 17–22, 31–32.
McGilligan, Pat, ed. Backstory: Interviews with Screenwriters of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
Meyers, Jeffrey. Bogart: A Life in Hollywood. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
Milland, Ray. Wide-Eyed in Babylon. New York: Morrow, 1974.
Mirisch, Walter. I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008.
Morris, George. “The Private Films of Billy Wilder.” Film Comment 14, no. 1 (1979): 34–39.
Muller, Jürgen, ed. Movies of the Thirties. Los Angeles: Taschen/BFI, 2005.
——, ed. Movies of the Forties. Los Angeles: Taschen/BFI, 2005.
——, ed. Movies of the Fifties. Los Angeles: Taschen/BFI, 2005.
——, ed. Movies of the Sixties. Los Angeles: Taschen/BFI, 2005.
Murray, Robert, and Roger Brucker. Trapped! The Story of Floyd Collins. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1999.
Naremore, James. More Than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts. Rev. ed. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2008.
Nash, Jay, and Stanley Ross, eds. The Motion Picture Guide, 1927–1983. Chicago: Cinebooks, 1985.
Osborne, Charles. The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie. New York: HarperCollins, 1999.
Palmer, Barton, ed. Perspectives on Film Noir. New York: Twayne, 1994.
Paris, Barry. Garbo: A Biography. New York: Knopf, 1995.
Pendergast, Tom, and Sara Pendergast, eds. International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers. Rev. ed. 4 vols. Detroit: St. James Press, 2000.
Pointer, Michael. “Holmes Lives!” American Film, November 1975, 68–70.
Riva, David, ed. A Woman at War: Marlene Dietrich Remembered. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2006.
Riva, Maria. Marlene Dietrich. New York: Knopf, 1993.
Roquemore, Joseph. History Goes to the Movies. New York: Doubleday, 1999.
Rowan, Arthur. “Making the Aerial Shots for The Spirit of St. Louis.” American Cinematographer, June 1957, 366–87.
Sarris, Andrew. The American Cinema: Directors and Directions, 1929–1968. Rev. ed. New York: Da Capo, 1996.
——. “Billy Wilder, Closet Romanticist.” Film Comment 12, no. 4 (1977): 7–9.
——. “From the Kaiser to the Oscar.” New York Times Book Review, December 27, 1998, 5.
——. You Ain’t Heard Nothin’ Yet: The American Talking Film, 1927–1949. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Schickel, Richard. Double Indemnity. London: British Film Institute, 1993.
Schickel, Richard, and George Perry. Bogie: The Life and Films of Humphrey Bogart. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2006.
Seidman, Steve. The Film Career of Billy Wilder. Pleasantville, NY: Redgrave, 1977.
Sikov, Ed. On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder. New York: Hyperion, 1998.
Silver, Alain, and James Ursini, eds. Film Noir Reader 4: The Crucial Films and Themes. New York: Limelight, 2004.
Silver, Alain, James Ursini, and Paul Duncan. Film Noir. Los Angeles: Taschen, 2004.
Silver, Alain, James Ursini, and Robert Porfirio, eds. Film Noir Reader 3. New York: Limelight, 2002.
Silverman, Stephen. “Billy Wilder and Stanley Donen.” Films in Review 47, nos. 3–4 (1996): 34–36.
Sinyard, Neil, and Adrian Turner. Journey down Sunset Boulevard: The Films of Billy Wilder. Ryde, Isle of Wight: BCW, 1979.
Some Like It Hot. Souvenir program. MGM Home Entertainment, 2006.
Sova, Dawn. Forbidden Films: Censorship. New York: Facts on File, 2001.
Staggs, Sam. Close-Up on Sunset Boulevard. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2003.
Stevens, George, Jr., ed. Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood’s Golden Age at the American Film Institute. New York: Knopf, 2006.
Swanson, Gloria. Swanson on Swanson. New York: Pocket Books, 1981.
Taylor, Samuel. Sabrina Fair, or A Woman of the World. New York: Random House, 1954.
Telotte, J. P. Voices in the Dark: The Narrative Patterns of Film Noir. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.
Thomas, Bob. Golden Boy: The Untold Story of William Holden. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1983.
Thomson, David. The New Biographical Dictionary of Film. Rev. ed. New York: Knopf, 2004.
Trauner, Alexandre. Alexandre Trauner, décors de cinéma: Entretiens avec Jean-Pierre Berthomé. Paris: Jade, Flammarion, 1988.
Trowbridge, Katelin. “The War between Words and Images: Sunset Boulevard.” Literature/Film Quarterly 30, no. 4 (2002): 294–303.
“Two Views of a Director: Billy Wilder.” Quarterly of Film, Radio, and Television 7, no. 1 (1952): 58–69.
Variety Film Reviews, 1907–1966. 24 vols. New Providence, NJ: Bowker, 1997.
Vizzard, Jack. See No Evil: Life inside a Hollywood Censor. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970.
Walker, Alexander. Audrey: Her Real Story. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994.
Walsh, Frank. Sin and Censorship: The Catholic Church and the Motion Picture Industry. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996.
Welsh, James, and Thomas Erskine, eds. Video Versions: Film Adaptations of Plays. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005.
Welsh, James, and John Tibbetts, eds. Encyclopedia of Novels into Film. Rev. ed. New York: Facts on File, 2005.
——. Encyclopedia of Stage Plays into Film. New York: Facts on File, 2001.
Widener, Don. Lemmon: A Biography. N
ew York: Macmillan, 1975.
Wilder, Billy. “Entretien avec Billy Wilder.” Interview by Michel Ciment. Positif, October 1970, 4–17.
——. “Entretien avec Billy Wilder.” Interview by Michel Ciment. Positif, August 1983, 15–28.
——. “Entretien avec Billy Wilder sur Avanti!” Interview by Michel Ciment. Positif, January 1974, 3–9.
——. “Going for Extra Innings.” Interview by Joseph McBride and Todd McCarthy. Film Comment 13, no. 1 (1979): 40–48.
——. Interview by Richard Gehman. Playboy, June 1963, 57–66.
——. “Movies Forever!” New Republic, June 9, 1982.
Wilder, Billy, and George Axelrod. The Seven Year Itch: Unpublished Screenplay. Los Angeles: Twentieth Century–Fox, 1954.
Wilder, Billy, and Edwin Blum. Stalag 17: A Screenplay. Edited by Jeffrey Meyers. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999.
Wilder, Billy, and Charles Brackett. The Lost Weekend: A Screenplay. Edited by Jeffrey Meyers. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000.
Wilder, Billy, Charles Brackett, and D. M. Marshman Jr. Sunset Boulevard: A Screenplay. Edited by Jeffrey Meyers. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999.
Wilder, Billy, Charles Brackett, and Walter Reisch. Ninotchka: A Screenplay. In The Best Pictures, 1939–40, edited by Jerry Wald and Richard Macaulay, 79–128. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1940.
Wilder, Billy, and Raymond Chandler. Double Indemnity: A Screenplay. Edited by Jeffrey Meyers. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000.
Wilder, Billy, and I. A. L. Diamond. The Apartment: Unpublished Screenplay. Los Angeles: United Artists, 1959.
——. Avanti! Unpublished Screenplay. Los Angeles: United Artists, 1971.
——. The Fortune Cookie. In The Apartment and The Fortune Cookie: Two Screenplays. London: Studio Vista, 1966.
——. The Front Page: Unpublished Screenplay. Los Angeles: Universal, 1974.
——. Irma la Douce: Unpublished Screenplay. Los Angeles: United Artists, 1963.
——. One, Two, Three: Unpublished Screenplay. Los Angeles: United Artists, 1961.
——. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes: Unpublished Screenplay. Los Angeles: United Artists, 1970.
——. Some Like It Hot: A Screenplay. Edited by Alison Castle. New York: Taschen, 2001.
Some Like It Wilder Page 56