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DEEP FOCUS: Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim (left), William Holden (center) and crew look on intently as Wilder examines a strip of film on the set of Sunset Blvd. (1950).
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CLOSE-UP: Wilder directs a shot of Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) getting a facial in preparation for her imagined return to the screen in Sunset Blvd. (1950).
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FEMME FATALE: Wilder sets up a secret meeting in a supermarket between Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray after they’ve knocked off her husband in Double Indemnity (1944).
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UNDER AGE: Wilder goes over lines with Ginger Rogers on his first film, The Major and the Minor (1940). In the movie, she pretends to be a 12-year-old to get a child’s fare on the train.
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CLASSIC COKE: Wilder directs James Cagney on the street in West Berlin. Cagney plays a Coca-Cola executive in the Cold War comedy, One, Two, Three (1960).
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THE FAB THREE: Wilder on the set with Walter Matthau, as shyster lawyer Whiplash Willie, who gets stooge Jack Lemmon to exaggerate his injuries to collect insurance money in The Fortune Cookie (1966).
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SHALL WE DANCE: Wilder shows Jack Lemmon, masquerading as Daphne–the bass player in an all-girls band–how to tango in Some Like It Hot (1959).
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TWO CENTS PLAIN: Wilder must have enjoyed demonstrating the proper technique for giving his good friend Jack Lemmon a spritz of seltzer in Irma la Douce (1963).
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HOME COOKING: After she tries to kill herself, Shirley MacLaine is nursed back to health by Jack Lemmon, under the watchful eye of Dr. Wilder, in The Apartment (1960).
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FALLING IN LOVE: Wilder orchestrates the courtship of Audrey Hepburn and her unlikely suitor, Humphrey Bogart, in a scene from Sabrina (1954).
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NOBODY'S PERFECT: Wilder shows Marilyn Monroe (off camera) how to kiss the supposedly frigid Tony Curtis in the seduction scene from Some Like It Hot (1959).
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