Billy Wilder Trivia Questions

Robert Wise directed 'The Sound of Music'. Wilder admired it but had no involvement; he did direct 'The Apartment' and 'Sunset Boulevard'.

The credited writers were Julius and Philip Epstein and Howard Koch. Wilder never worked on 'Casablanca'; he was busy with other projects in the 1940s.

It was inspired by the 1927 Ruth Snyder–Jud Gray murder case, where a wife and her lover killed her husband for insurance money.

Wilder worked as a crime reporter in Vienna and Berlin before fleeing the Nazis and reinventing himself as a Hollywood writer.

Wilder directed 'Irma la Douce' (1963) with Shirley MacLaine, but it wasn't a musical; his only musical was 'The Emperor Waltz' (1948), which starred Bing Crosby.

The Catholic Legion of Decency condemned it, and Kansas banned it outright, but it became a classic and won an Oscar for costume design.

Wilder won three Oscars for 'The Apartment' (best picture, director, screenplay), but he shared the producer credit; no one won all three for the same film until later.

Monroe was considered for the role of Norma Desmond but declined; Gloria Swanson was cast instead, giving a career-defining performance.