The Emperor Waltz (1948, dir. Billy Wilder) (via)

Marilyn Monroe in contact sheets for Some Like it Hot (1959, dir. Billy Wilder) (Magnum)

Marilyn Monroe & Billy Wilder in contact sheets for Some Like it Hot (1959) (Magnum)

Barbara Stanwyck & Fred MacMurray on the set of Double Indemnity (1944, dir. Billy Wilder)

Wartime food shortages meant that security guards were posted to protect the real cans of food in the grocery store from sticky-fingered cast & crew members. Despite this, the aggrieved store owner reported to the LA Times that some scoundrel had managed to pinch a can of peaches & four bars of laundry soap. 

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The Lost Weekend (1945, dir. Billy Wilder)

“Don’t wipe it away, Nat. Let me have my little vicious circle. You know, the circle is the perfect geometric figure. No end, no beginning.”

Tony Curtis & Jack Lemmon on the set of Some Like It Hot (1959, dir. Billy Wilder)

“We hung out a lot. After we made Some Like It Hot, we’d meet at parties, with movie people, dinner and dancing. And I’d always walk up to Jack’s table, tap him on the shoulder, and say, ‘Would you like to dance?’ And he’d get up and we’d waltz through the dance floor. It was too good.”

-Tony Curtis, excerpted from Dallas News interview, July 2002

In homage: Florence Georgie in It Happened On 23rd Street, above (1901, dir. Edwin Porter); Marilyn Monroe in publicity still for Seven Year Itch, below (1955, dir. Billy Wilder)

Barbara Stanwyck & Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity (1946, dir. Billy Wilder)

“How could I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?”

Suggestions on how to hide your secret alcohol problem and/or workplace scotch stash via The Lost Weekend (1945, dir. Billy Wilder)

Doris Dowling in The Lost Weekend (1945, dir. Billy Wilder)

“Pour it softly, pour it gently, and pour it to the brim.”

Jan Sterling in publicity still for Ace in the Hole (1951, dir. Billy Wilder)

“I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.”

-Sterling as Lorraine Minosa in Ace in the Hole

Marilyn Monroe, photographed with Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, & Billy Wilder on the set of Some Like It Hot (1959, dir. Billy Wilder) (via drmacro)

Jack Lemmon in Some Like it Hot (1959, dir. Billy Wilder)