William Franklin Holden was an American actor and one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the film Stalag 17 and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outs
Holden in a publicity photo, 1950
A young Holden (left) with Lee J. Cobb in his first starring role in a film, Golden Boy (1939)
With George Raft (right) in Invisible Stripes (1939)
With Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Billy Wilder was an Austrian and American film director and screenwriter. His career in Hollywood spanned five decades, and he is regarded as one of the most versatile filmmakers of classical Hollywoo
Wilder, c. 1942
Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas in Ninotchka
Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity
Gloria Swanson with Wilder on the set of Sunset Boulevard