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Promo, The Front Page (1974): Wilder directs Lemmon and Matthau

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Promo, The Front Page (1974): Wilder directs Lemmon and Matthau
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Front:
L-R: Director Billy Wilder speaks with Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon on set.
Back:
Typewritten:
2071-88 THE FRONT PAGE UNIVERSAL STUDIO
Billy Wilder, directing “The Front Page”, analyzes a comedy point for stars Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon.
Billy Wilder’s film “The Front Page”, starring Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, and Carol Burnett, was produced by Paul Monash and directed by Billy Wilder, with Jennings Lang as executive producer. The screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is based on the play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, and was filmed in Technicolor and Pa[na]vision. The Universal Picture about newspapermen in Chicago in 1929 [co]-stars Vincent Gardenia, Susan Sarandon, Allen Garfield, David Wayn[e,] Charles Durning, and Austin Pendleton.
Handwritten label “Return to Phillips,” “pix 08,” and numbered 42. Marked with a sticky note labeled “Phillips 42.” Stamped to return to Phillips at Loyola University.
Date Created
1974