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Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch (1954)

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"[Jean Arthur] was alone there. You see Marlene wants to engage her in some kind of dialogue. She was a real kibitzer, you know. When an electrician had a sneeze, she would run out, barefoot in the rain, climb up the steps, and bring some aspirin. She was a great great doctor, that's what she was." Billy Wilder on Jean Arthur and Marlene Dietrich, Conversations With Wilder (1999)

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The male moose is king of the boreal forest, but don't get too close.

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“It’s a one way trip and the last stop is the cemetery.”

Double Indemnity (1944) dir. Billy Wilder

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Jean Harlow and Billy Wilder lived at the famous Chateau Marmont 

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Milestone Monday

On this day, April 17 in 1897, the American playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) was born in Madison, Wisconsin to Isabella Thornton Niven and newspaper editor and U.S. diplomat Amos Parker Wilder. Thornton Wilder’s many works garnered him international acclaim, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning plays Our Town (1938) and The Skin of Our Teeth (1943), the 1955 play The Matchmaker, and the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1943 Shadow of a Doubt.  It was his 1927 The Bridge of San Luis Rey, however, that first brought him commercial success and his first Pulitzer Prize in 1928.

We hold three illustrated editions of Bridge, one illustrated with wood engravings by Clare Leighton and published by Longmans, Green in 1929 (which we will show on Wednesday), another illustrated with color lithographs by Rockwell Kent and published by Albert & Charles Boni in 1929 (which we posted about over five years ago), and this 1962 Limited Editions Club (LEC) production, illustrated with 16 original color lithographs drawn directly on the plates by the French-born American painter and illustrator, Jean Charlot (1898-1979), and printed in a limited edition of 1500 copies signed by the artist. Charlot was a frequent LEC contributor, and we have already posted a few times on his work for the club.

With this edition, then, we celebrate a Thornton Wilder Birthday Anniversary!

View other posts on the works of Jean Charlot.

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View more Milestone Monday posts.

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Best Marilyn Monroe movies and performances:

1. All About Eve - Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950)

2. Some Like It Hot - Billy Wilder (1959)

3. The Asphalt Jungle - John Huston (1950)

4. O. Henry's Full House - Henry Koster, Henry Hathaway, Jean Negulesco, Howard Hawks, Henry King (1952)

5. The Misfits - John Huston (1961)

6. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - Howard Hawks (1953)

7. The Seven Year Itch - Billy Wilder (1955)

8. Clash by Night - Fritz Lang (1952)

9. Niagara - Henry Hathaway (1953)

10. Monkey Business - Howard Hawks (1952)

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I love how this man is wearing 1970s jeans in 1870s Minnesota

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Jean Arthur and Billy Wilder on the set of A Foreign Affair (1948)

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hi. why did I fucking get this