Tamiroff, Akim, 43, 348
Taylor, Don, 144, 353
Taylor, Elizabeth, 245
Taylor, John Russell, 31, 106
Taylor, Samuel, 153–54, 315, 354, 363
Taylor, William Desmond, 110
Teal, Ray, 353
Technicolor, 91, 92, 350, 360, 364, 365
television, 112, 209, 251, 284
Temple, Shirley, 34
Tempo (Berlin tabloid), 4, 7
Terry, Alice, 118
Terry, Phillip, 78, 350
Teufelsreporter, Der [The Daredevil Reporter] (film), 6
Thatcher, Torin, 357
That Lady in Ermine (film), 96
Thief of Bagdad, The (film), 47
Thoeren, Robert, 211, 357
Thomas, Bob, 144
Thomas, Frankie, 348
Thomas, Kevin, 338
Thompson, George, 73, 350
Thompson, Thomas, 278
Thornton, Frank, 363
Three Coins in the Fountain (film), 167
Three Comrades (film), 43
Tiffin, Pamela, 254, 359
Titanic (film; 1953), 127
Todesmühlen, Die [Death Mills] (Wilder/Borger documentary film), 85–86
To Each His Own (film), 100
To Kill a Mockingbird (film), 311
Toland, Gregg, 29
Tomasini, George, 149, 353
Tom Jones (Fielding novel), 270
Tom Jones (film; 1963), 270
Tomlinson, Doug, 228, 229–30
Tone, Franchot, 43, 45, 348
Tonge, Philip, 357
Toones, Fred, 350
Torn Curtain (film), 296
Touch of Evil (film), 205
Toumanova, Tamara, 296, 362
Tover, Leo, 36, 347
Tranquillo posto di campagna, Un [A Quiet Place in the Country] (film), 318
Transamerica Corporation, 322
Trapped! The Story of Floyd Collins (Murray and Brucker), 130
Trauner, Alexander
The Apartment and, 234, 237, 242, 244, 358
Fedora and, 327, 328, 365
Irma la Douce and, 262, 360
Kiss Me, Stupid and, 271, 360
Love in the Afternoon and, 186, 190, 356
One, Two, Three and, 251–52, 253, 257, 359
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes and, 298, 304, 362
Witness for the Prosecution and, 201–2, 357
Tremayne, Les, 362
Trouble in Paradise (film), 19
Truffaut, François, 11, 173, 195
Tryon, Thomas, 324, 326, 365
Trzcinski, Edmund, 142, 145, 150, 154, 353, 354
Tucker, Harland, 352
Tufts, Sonny, 355
Turner, Adrian, 185
Turner, Lana, 62
Tuttle, Lurene, 361
Tutweiler, Thomas, 181, 183, 355
Twentieth Century–Fox, 15, 34, 55, 127, 196
Fedora and, 328
The Seven Year Itch and, 165, 168, 169, 171, 174, 354
Two Guys from Milwaukee (film), 187
“Two Views of a Director,” 140
Tyler, Parker, 68
Tyler, Walter, 351, 354
Ulmer, Edgar, 7, 9, 151
Underwood, Agnes, 353
United Artists (UA), 196, 211, 246
The Apartment and, 232, 239, 243, 245, 358
Avanti! and, 322, 363
Fedora and, 329, 364
The Fortune Cookie and, 286, 361
Irma la Douce and, 264, 359
Kiss Me, Stupid and, 276
One, Two, Three and, 359
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes and, 295, 301, 302, 362
Some Like It Hot and, 213, 214, 224, 357
Witness for the Prosecution and, 357
See also Mirisch Company
Universal Pictures, 6, 213, 311
Berlin office, 5
Fedora and, 324, 326, 333
The Front Page and, 309, 311, 322, 363
Universum Film-Aktiengesellschaft [Universal Film-Production Company] (Ufa), 1, 8, 15, 22, 41
Dreier at, 62
A Foreign Affair in style of, 101
Jewish employees purged from, 10
Pommer at, 101
scriptwriters, 211
story department, 9
Wilder as screenwriter at, 187, 326, 333, 344
Untouchables, The (TV series), 214
Valentino, Rudolph, 43, 117–18, 119
Valley, Richard, 297
Van Eyck, Peter, 48, 348
Van Huesen, James, 350
Varden, Norma, 348, 357
Varney, William, 363
Veevers, Wally, 362
Velsa, Paul, 347
Venice Film Festival, 140
Ventura, Lino, 333, 335
Vermilyea, Harold, 351
Vertigo (film), 154
Vidor, King, 234, 235
Vienna, 2, 4, 30, 142
in The Emperor Waltz, 93
psychoanalysis and, 284, 310
ravaged by World War II, 89
Vizzard, Jack, 274, 291
Vohs, Joan, 354
voice-over narration
in Ace in the Hole, 131
in Double Indemnity, 64
in Irma la Douce, 265
in The Lost Weekend, 81
in Love in the Afternoon, 192, 195
in One, Two, Three, 254, 255
in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, 302
in Sabrina, 162
in The Spirit of St. Louis, 180
in Sunset Boulevard, 110, 116, 121
Vranitzky, Franz, 344
“Waiter, Bring Me a Dancer: The Life of a Gigolo” (Wilder article series), 4
Walker, Nella, 354
Wall, Jean, 347
Wallis, Hal, 264, 268
Walsh, Frank, 279
Walsh, Raoul, 122
Walston, Ray, 240, 273, 358, 361
Walter, Alexander, 191, 362
Walter, Ernest, 298, 299, 300, 302, 304
Walterschausen, Wolfgang, 7, 8
Wanger, Walter, 232
Ward, E. Clayton, 355
Ward, James, 361
Warner, Frank, 363
Warner, H. B., 122, 352
Warner, Jack, 75, 179, 181, 182, 184, 185
Warner Bros., 47, 75, 175, 177, 215
gangster pictures, 250
The Spirit of St. Louis and, 180, 182, 188, 355
Was Frauen träumen [What Women Dream] (film), 10
Waterman, Willard, 359
Watson, Bobby, 352
Watson, Lucile, 94, 351
Watts, Charles, 356
Waxman, Franz, 10, 47, 336
Love in the Afternoon and, 190, 191, 195, 356
Mauvaise graine and, 11, 347
The Spirit of St. Louis and, 184, 185, 356
Stalag 17 and, 149–50, 353
Sunset Boulevard and, 119–20, 121, 125, 352
Wayne, David, 310, 364
Way We Were, The (film), 335
W.C. Fields (film), 324
Webb, Jack, 352
Weber, Francis, 333, 365
Wedding March, The (film), 44
Wedell, Susan, 361
Wee Willie Winkie (film), 34
Weltner, George, 152
West, Judi, 287, 361
West, Mae, 111–12, 218
Western films, 6, 188, 201, 251, 317
Weston, Jay, 333, 365
West Side Story (musical film), 283
Wheeler, Lyle, 355
Where I Live (film), 239
Where Love Has Gone (film), 274
White, David, 359
Whiteman, Paul, 4, 90, 191
Whitney, Grace Lee, 360
Widmark, Richard, 194
Wilde, Oscar, 121, 141, 325
Wilder, Audrey Young (second wife), 86–87, 92, 202, 280
in Love in the Afternoon, 356
Monroe and
, 222
Wilder, Billy
Academy Awards and, 2, 84, 85, 151, 244–45, 323
affinities with characters in films of, 110, 129–30
American popular culture and, 13, 135, 177
awards received by, 1–2, 343–44, 407n4
in Berlin, 1, 4–10, 25, 27, 53, 74, 307, 334
biographers, 3, 169
death, 305, 344–45
directorial debut in Hollywood, 31, 34, 36–37
on director’s tasks, 33
disguise as recurring theme, 39, 42
early years, 2–5
English language and, 13–14, 15, 16, 130, 135, 146
on erosion of social values, 59
as film apprentice in Berlin, 5–6
final years, 341–44
on first scenes in pictures, 45
flight from Nazi Germany, 10
as freelancer, 322, 324
Hawks as collaborator, 29–31
on Hollywood as factory, 341
as Hollywood immigrant, 12–17
interviews, 323–24, 332
as jazz enthusiast, 3, 4, 30, 223, 239, 312
Jewish family background, 5, 10, 16
journalistic writings, 4, 44
Leisen as collaborator, 24–29
Lubitsch as collaborator, 1, 20–24, 249
male friendship in films of, 68, 282, 290, 296–98, 308, 313, 333, 334
marriages, 16, 86–87
on moral messages in films, 244
on moviegoing audiences, 322, 342
naming of characters, 233
in New York City, 12
opinion of Americans, 193–94
Oscar nominations, 28
in Paris, 10–12
as producer, 216–17
recurring themes in films of, 138
reputation as world-class director, 345
sardonic humor of, 35, 84, 126
screenwriters’ relationships with, 56–57, 199
as scriptwriter, 1, 6–10, 15, 16–17, 19–20, 333
studio executives and, 148
upbeat endings to depressing stories, 81, 242, 289
U.S. Army and, 83, 85–86, 97
on voice-over narration, 64
wisecracks and insults from, 155, 165, 188, 199
women, relationships with, 3, 16, 76, 86, 92, 301
Wilder, Eugenia (mother), 2, 21
Wilder, Hubert (half-brother), 3
Wilder, Judith Iribe (first wife), 16, 86
Wilder, Maximilian (father), 2, 5
Wilder, Victoria (daughter), 16, 86
Wilder, Wilhelm [Willie] (brother), 2, 12, 151
“Wilder, W. Lee,” 12
Wilder-Brackett script collaboration, 16–17, 26–27, 216
Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife, 17, 19–22
The Emperor Waltz, 89–91, 95, 96–97, 350
end of, 126–27, 130, 141
Five Graves to Cairo, 42–51, 348
A Foreign Affair, 98–99, 107, 351
Hold Back the Dawn, 24, 26, 27–29
The Lost Weekend, 67, 70, 71, 73, 74–75, 80, 349
The Major and the Minor, 34–41, 347
Midnight, 24–26, 27
Sunset Boulevard, 109–11, 118–19, 120
Wilder-Diamond script collaboration, 187, 342–43
The Apartment, 231–32, 233, 358
Avanti!, 316–18, 321, 363
Buddy Buddy, 334, 365
Fedora, 324, 325, 327, 365
The Fortune Cookie, 281–83, 282–83, 361, 362
The Front Page, 309–11, 364
Irma la Douce, 261, 360
Kiss Me, Stupid, 270–71, 361
Love in the Afternoon, 187–89, 356
One, Two, Three, 249, 250–51, 253–54, 359
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, 294, 296–98, 362
Some Like It Hot, 189, 211, 212, 215–16, 228–29, 357
Williams, Charles, 239
Williams, John, 161, 354, 357
Williams, Tennessee, 224, 275
Wills, Beverly, 358
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (film), 175
Wilson, Harry, 358
Winters, Ralph, 311, 312, 318, 327, 363, 364
Wisdom, Philip, 348
Wise, Robert, 154
Witness for the Prosecution (Christie short story and play), 196, 197–98, 199, 207, 357
Witness for the Prosecution (Wilder film), 196, 216, 236, 357
Academy Awards and, 208–9
cast, 198–99, 282, 357
characters and plot, 206–8, 357
cost of film rights, 261
editing, 206, 357
film noir tradition and, 208
flashback in, 200–201, 251
musical score/songs, 200, 357
photography, 201, 206, 357
production crew, 201–2, 357
screenplay/shooting script, 197, 199–201, 357
set design, 201–2, 357
surprise ending, 205–6, 209
Wolf, Manny, 15, 16
Wolfe, Ian, 357
Wolter, Ralf, 249, 359
Wood, Allen K., 358, 360, 361
Wood, Ean, 103
Wood, Leo, 358
Wood, Sam, 117
Wood, Tom, 116, 124, 169
Woolfolk, Alan, 59
World of Henry Orient, The (film), 334
World War I, 2, 41, 42, 106
World War II, 30, 100, 179
film noir and, 59, 64
Hollywood actors’ service in, 201
Lindbergh and, 178
sexuality and, 98
Stalag 17 set in, 142
Wilder films set in, 42–51
Worth, Lathrop, 350
Wrigley, Dewey, 351
Writers Guild of America, 186, 343, 345
Wuthering Heights (film), 29, 36
Wyler, William, 36, 85, 156, 245, 279
on death of Lubitsch, 96
Friendly Persuasion, 195
Wylie, Philip, 73
Wyman, Jane, 75, 83, 104, 350
Yarnell, Bruce, 266, 360
Yeck, Joanne, 342
York, Michael, 327, 330, 331, 365
Young, Mary, 350
Young, Victor, 93, 350
Zanuck, Darryl, 165, 166, 167, 171, 174
Zerneck, Peter von, 351
Zinnemann, Fred, 7, 13, 245, 324
Academy Awards and, 151
on coming of sound movies, 8–9
From Here to Eternity, 151, 172
The Search, 113
Zolotow, Maurice, 3, 26