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Billy Wilder (b. 1906)

• Austrian by birth

• worked as reporter and scriptwriter before being hired to write for Ernst Lubitsch on Ninotchka (1934)

• film noir classics Double Idemnity (1944) Sunset Boulevard (1950) show influence of German Expressionism

• romantic comedies of 1950s Seven Year Itch (1955) with Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell; Some Like it Hot (1959) with Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemon and Tony Curtis; The Apartment (1960) Jack Lemon, Shirley MacLaine

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