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2. Double Indemnity - Wikipedia

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   Double Indemnity is a 1944 American film noir directed by Billy Wilder and produced by Buddy DeSylva and Joseph Sistrom. Wilder and Raymond Chandler adapted the screenplay from James M. Cain 's novel of the same name , which ran as an eight-part serial in Liberty magazine in 1936.

3. Phyllis Dietrichson - Wikipedia

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   Stanwyck as Phyllis in the 1944 film Double Indemnity. Phyllis Dietrichson (Phyllis Nirdlinger in the book) is a fictional character in the book and two film adaptations of James M. Cain's novella Double Indemnity. For the 1944 film of the same name, Barbara Stanwyck was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

4. Jean Heather - Wikipedia

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   Following her college graduation, Heather signed a contract with Paramount. [1] She acted in two Oscar-nominated movies in 1944: the crime drama Double Indemnity, in which she played Lola Dietrichson, a young woman convinced that her stepmother Phyllis (Barbara Stanwyck) is responsible for the murder of her father, and Going My Way, where she played a runaway teenager assisted by Father O ...

5. Edward G. Robinson - Wikipedia

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   At Paramount, he was in Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity (1944), with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck, where his riveting soliloquy on insurance actuarial tables (written by Raymond Chandler) is considered a career showstopper; [clarification needed] and at Columbia, he was in Mr. Winkle Goes to War (1944).

6. Billy Wilder filmography - Wikipedia

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   Two years later, he directed and co-wrote the screenplay for the film noir Double Indemnity (1944), which is considered a classic of its genre. [6] He followed this with The Lost Weekend (1945), a drama about a writer struggling with alcoholism, for which Wilder won his first Academy Award for Best Director and shared the Best Original ...

7. 'Body Heat' at 40: Kathleen Turner recalls 'misguided ... - AOL

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   After some work on New York stages and a brief stint on the NBC soap The Doctors, Kathleen Turner made her stunning movie debut as femme fatale Matty Walker in Body Heat, the sweat-drenched, sex ...

8. Double indemnity (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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   Double indemnity may also refer to: Double Indemnity, a 1943 crime novel by James M. Cain. Double Indemnity, a 1944 American film noir adaptation of Cain's novel, directed by Billy Wilder. Double Indemnity, a 1973 TV film remake of the 1944 film, directed by Jack Smight "Double Indemnity", a short story by science fiction writer Robert Sheckley

9. Opinion: ‘Hit Man’ does what ‘Double Indemnity’ couldn’t

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   Richard Linklater’s “Hit Man” reworks the femme fatale trope, imagining a world where the possibility of love is open for men and women, writes Noah Berlatsky.