Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and Billy Wilder in The Apartment (1960)

Shirley MacLaine and Billy Wilder in The Apartment (1960)

Billy Wilder and Ginger Rogers in The Major and the Minor (1942)

Jack Lemmon and Billy Wilder in The Apartment (1960)

"Buddy Buddy" Jack Lemmon, Billy Wilder, Walter Matthau 1981 MGM/UA  / MPTV

"Front Page, The" Dir. Billy Wilder and Walter Matthau on the set 1974 UI

"Front Page, The" Walter Matthau, Dir. Billy Wilder, Jack Lemmon, Susan Sarandon 1974 UI

"Front Page, The" Director Billy Wilder 1974 UI

"Front Page, The" Director Billy Wilder and Cast 1974 UI

"Front Page, The" Director Billy Wilder and Carol Burnett 1974 UI

"Front Page, The" Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Dir. Billy Wilder 1974 UI

"Front Page, The" Director Billy Wilder on the set 1974 U-I

"Front Page, The" Director Billy Wilder 1974 U-I

Akira Kurosawa, Billy Wilder, and John Huston in The 58th Annual Academy Awards (1986)

Billy Wilder and Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend (1945)

Jack Lemmon and Billy Wilder in Some Like It Hot (1959)

Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and Billy Wilder in The Apartment (1960)

Alfred Hitchcock, Luis Buñuel, Billy Wilder, George Cukor, Jean-Claude Carrière, Rouben Mamoulian, Robert Mulligan, Serge Silberman, George Stevens, Robert Wise, and William Wyler

James Cagney, Billy Wilder, and Arlene Francis in One, Two, Three (1961)

Billy Wilder, Robert Garrison, and Eddie Polo in Hell of a Reporter (1929)

Billy Wilder in Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder (1980)

Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, and Billy Wilder in The Front Page (1974)

Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, and Gloria Swanson

"The 33rd Annual Academy Awards" Elizabeth Taylor, Billy Wilder

Directors George Stevens and Billy Wilder

"Academy Awards: 33rd Annual," Burt Lancaster, Elizabeth Tarylor, and Billy Wilder.  1961.

"Academy Awards: 33rd Annual" Burt Lancaster, Elizabeth Taylor and Billy Wilder

Ciro's Nightclub, 1956 Billy Wilder, Mel Ferrer, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chivalier, James Stewart

Billy Wilder, Joe Mankewitz, and Charles Boyer c. 1955

Ingrid Bergman and director Billy Wilder at a restaurant in Rome

Billy Wilder in Witness for the Prosecution (1957)