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Marilyn Monroe: 50 Years After Her Death
Image Credit: Cat's Collection/Corbis) Actress Marilyn Monroe on the set of "The Seven Year Itch," directed by Billy Wilder in 1955. (Image Credit: M. Garrett/Getty Images) Marilyn Monroe smiles as she poses with fans in front of the
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Tony Curtis' Iconic Performance: 'Some Like It Hot'Hot," the 1959 gem directed by Billy Wilder that co-starred Marilyn Monroe Curtis was a midlevel star when Billy Wilder cast him in 'Some Like It Hot Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder ," "Film Studies: An Introduction
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JD Salinger Dies at 91in a safe. During his lifetime, Salinger turned down offers to put his books on film or on stage by such luminaries Billy Wilder , Elia Kazan, Steven Spielberg and Harvey Weinstein. The author's wall of secrecy was pierced in 1998 when his former
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Robert Wagner on Life, Career and NatalieTitanic," and I was invited into his group. Clifton's friends included people like Noel Coward and Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder 's partner, who never got much credit from anyone, especially Billy. Charlie was a kind, well-educated, very
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Hollywood United? Strike's Star Supporters May Turnoffices and listen for the sound of typing. Legend has it when he once caught Oscar-winning director and screenwriter Billy Wilder napping on his couch, he barked, "I'm paying you 10 grand a week! Why aren't you writing?" Wilders reply
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Ladies, Embrace Your Curves!
always will be the case. Audrey Hepburn is considered one of the greatest beauties of all time -- today. But when Billy Wilder was casting the role of Holly Golightly in "Breakfast at Tiffanys" he did not want to hire her. She was rail thin
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Book Excerpt: Joan Collins on Staying Young
So what's the alternative? No one wants to die, however old they are, and as someone said to the late, great Billy Wilder , "Who wants to be ninety-five?" "Someone who's ninety-four," retorted Billy. After nine years of playing that devious, loveable
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Rap Star 50 Cent Joins Movie Mobsters
gangster connections hampered Raft's later career. Luckily, he was able to parody his mafia persona later in life in Billy Wilder 's "Some Like It Hot," much like Robert De Niro in "Analyze This," and Marlon Brando in "The Freshman." Capone
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Hollywood Classics Prepared Orlando Bloom for New Role
part-comedy, part-drama loosely based on the death of Cameron's father. Cameron instructed his star to watch Billy Wilder 's "The Apartment" and George Cukor's "The Philadelphia Story" as a way of showing the quirky characters that
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Is Scorsese Oscar Poison?
on. Oscarless Directors Alfred Hitchcock: Five Directorial Nominations For "Psycho" in 1961. Winning director: Billy Wilder ("The Apartment") For "Rear Window" in 1955. Winning director: Elia Kazan ("On the Waterfront") For "Spellbound
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Matt Damon Shines in Bourne Supremacy as Halle Berry Suffers a Cat-astrophe
sequel. The film starts with Halle floating and a voiceover where she says something about how she died. That's how Billy Wilder started Sunset Boulevard. Ten minutes later we see her die. A tidal wave of water knocks her dead. That's out of
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Matt Damon Shines in Bourne Supremacy as Halle Berry Suffers a Cat-astrophe
sequel. The film starts with Halle floating and a voiceover where she says something about how she died. That's how Billy Wilder started Sunset Boulevard. Ten minutes later we see her die. A tidal wave of water knocks her dead. That's out of
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Garner Can't Top Hanks at Child's Play
better. I don't think Nia Vardalos knew better, though. She says she stole the idea from Shakespeare, not from Billy Wilder . Sure, Nia, that's why the prince dies at the end. Grade C
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ABC News Updatesuccess and the defiant ones which earned him an Oscar nomination. The following year he to dress with Bob Hope for Billy Wilder classic comedy some like it hot Tony Curtis was 85. Finally the Paris auto show opened its doors today in could be
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Marilyn Monroe Under the Hammerauction block in Australia. It shows are on the set of the 1959 movie some like it hot. With Tony Curtis and director Billy Wilder the eight millimeter film which is still in its original Kodak box. Was shot by a US naval officer. Whom Monroe had
1959 movie some like it hot. With -- Tony Curtis and director Billy Wilder the eight millimeter film which is still in its original Kodak box. Was shot by a US naval officer. Whom Monroe had
