The Front Page (1974): Billy Wilder at the Camera
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- The Front Page (1974): Billy Wilder at the Camera
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Director Billy Wilder smiles as he sits behind the camera on the set of The Front Page (1974).
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2071-83 THE FRONT PAGE UNIVERSAL STUDIO
Billy Wilder, directing a key scene in “The Front Page”, gives star Jack Lemmon the proper comedy nuance for an upcoming scene.
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 Wayne, Charles Durning, and Austin Pendleton.
Handwritten label “Return to Phillips,” “pix 25,” “60%,” and numbered 25. Stamped to return to Phillips at Loyola University, though this has been crossed out in pen.
- Date Created
- 1974
