by Ed Sikov
Ulmer, Edgar
Um einen Groschen Liebe
Under Pressure
United Artists; The Apartment; Fedora; Fortune Cookie; Holmes; Irma la Douce; Kiss Me, Stupid; and MGM; One, Two, Three; Some Like It Hot
Universal Pictures
Universal Studios
Valadon, Suzanne
Valentin, Curt
Vanderbilt, Cornelius III
Van Eyck, Peter
Variety
Veber, Francis
Veevers, Wally
Victoria, Olive
Vidor, Charles
Vidor, Doris
Vidor, King
Vienna: Austria-Hungary empire; Emperor Waltz and; Genia remaining in; Jews in; Kristallnacht; movie industry in; newspapers; post-World War I; Whiteman in; Wilder as reporter in; Wilder as teenager in; Wilder’s residences in; Wilder’s return to (1935); (1957); (1994)
Vienna Hall
Viertel, Salka and Berthold
Vincenzoni, Luciano
Vranitzky, Franz
Vuillard, Edouard
Wachsmann, Franz, see Waxman, Franz
Wake Island
Wald, Jerry
Waldheim, Kurt
Waldoff, Claire
Wale, May
Wallis, Hal
Walston, Ray
Walter, Ernest
Wanger, Walter
War Information, Office of
Warner, H. B.
Warner, Jack
Warner Bros.; Lindbergh story for
Was Frauen träumen
Wasserman, Lew
Waugh, Evelyn
Waxman, Franz
Webb, Clifton
Wedding Dress
Weintraub, Jerry
Welles, Orson
West, Judi
West, Mae
Westmore, Wally
Weston, Jay
Whale, James
What a Life
Whiteman, Paul
Whitney, Jock and Sonny
Wiene, Robert
Wilder, Audrey Young: Billy’s affair with; film career of; marriage of Billy and; married life of Billy and; one-liners and; residences of; and shopping; as singer; as widow-to-be
Wilder, Billy: accent of; acting debut of; aging of; American citizenship of; art collection of; artwork by; awards and honors to; birth of; bridge played by; cars owned by; childhood of; children of; collaborators with, see collaborations; as dance coach; as director, see directing; end of career of; and English language; escape from Germany; and fire destruction; first romance of; first whores in life of; as ghostwriter; as gigolo; health problems of; income and finances of; influence of; and male bonding; marriages of, see Wilder, Audrey Young; Wilder, Judith Coppicus; memoirs of; name of; as out of date; personal characteristics of; poetry by; and politics; as producer; as reporter; restless energy of; retrospectives of work of; role models for; schooling of; as screenwriter, see screenwriting; self-contempt of; sports interests of; stamp collection of; as storyteller, in; as teenager; visa problem of; wardrobe of; as writer
Wilder, Eugenia Dittler; ambitions for Billie; American dreams of; Billie’s stories to; postwar search for; remarriage of; in Vienna
Wilder, Judith Coppicus; children of; elopement of Billy and; estrangement and divorce of; married life of Billy and; residences of
Wilder, Max; business ventures of; citizenship of; death and burial of, in Vienna
Wilder, Samuel, see Wilder, Billy
Wilder, Thornton, no
Wilder, Victoria
Wilder, Vincent
Wilder, Willie (Wilhelm); birth of; childhood of; in Hollywood; in New York
Williams, John
Wilmington, Michael
Wilson
Winters, Ralph
Witness for the Prosecution
Wochen-Presse, Die
Wolfe, Manny
women: movie violence toward; sexual blame placed on
Women’s Wear
World War I
World War II; Anschluss; atrocity footage of; Final Solution; jokes about; postwar information control; reflected in movies; and refugee crisis
Wortuba, Fritz
Wrigley, Dewey
writers: for Berlin newspapers; collaborating, see collaborations; of feuilletons; film critics; see also specific films; ghostwriting; Kaffeehausliterats; loneliness of; for movies, see screenwriting; and Screen Writers Guild; self-contempt of; travel reporting; for Viennese newspapers
Wyler, William; and Mrs. Miniver
Wyman, David
Wyman, Jane
York, Michael
Yost, Dorothy
Young, Audrey, see Wilder, Audrey Young
Young, Howard Irving
Zaharoff, Sir Basil
Zanuck, Darryl F.; Seven Year Itch
Zelnik, Friedrich
Zinnemann, Fred
Zolotow, Maurice; on Wilder in Europe; on Wilder in Hollywood; on Wilder’s family
Zukor, Adolph
Zweig, Stefan
