Billy Wilder

Today, in the Potsdamerstrasse, just up the road from the Adlon, under the post-Unification glass and chrome towers and the advertising billboards, there is a brand new restaurant called Billy Wilder's.

Nobody's Perfect O'Hagan, Andrew 2000

Films released in America just before the end of the war, such as Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity and Edward Dmytryk's Murder, My Sweet both 1944, were taken as evidence, when they appeared in France, that 'the Americans are making dark films too'.

[film noir] should return in the coming dystopia 2009

Popular culture was perhaps more ambivalent, offering layman's explanations in paperback but mocking Freud and his ilk in films such as Billy Wilder's "The Seven Year Itch" (1955) and in songs such as the Chad Mitchell Trio's "Ballad of Sigmund Freud."

Freudian America 2009

Films released in America just before the end of the war, such as Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity and Edward Dmytryk's Murder, My Sweet both 1944, were taken as evidence, when they appeared in France, that 'the Americans are making dark films too'.

Archive 2009-06-01 2009

Nearby is a black typewriter so old it might have been used in Billy Wilder's adaptation of The Front Page.

A Wonder Room – every school should have one 2011

"No good deed goes unpunished," said Clare Boothe Luce or Billy Wilder, depending who you ask.

Marianne Elliott: Three Cups of Humble Pie Marianne Elliott 2011

And his belief that Edward G. Robinson's Barton Keyes is gay and in love with MacMurray's Walter Neff in "Double Indemnity" would undoubtedly come as stunning news to both Robinson and Billy Wilder.

Hail, the Conquering Heroine Scott Eyman 2012

"No good deed goes unpunished," said Clare Boothe Luce or Billy Wilder, depending who you ask.

Marianne Elliott: Three Cups of Humble Pie Marianne Elliott 2011

After his last feature, Mr. Payne was compared by some to Billy Wilder for his wit, and by others to Jean Renoir for his humanity.

High-Altitude Viewing Joe Morgenstern 2011

The acute wit of Anthony Trollope's character sketches make me think of Billy Wilder's decree: "If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you."

Helen Oyeyemi Helen Oyeyemi 2011