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Billy Wilder: “I.A.L. Diamond…never had any doings with Mr. McCarthy…So there!”

“I.A.L. Diamond…never had any doings with Mr. McCarthy…So there!”

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“I.A.L. Diamond…never had any doings with Mr. McCarthy…So there!”

Highly esteemed, versatile, Oscar-winning, Austrian-American director and screenwriter (1906–2002) who helmed such all-time classics as Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, The Apartment, and Some Like It Hot. Two items: LS, one lined yellow page, 8.5 x 11, dated November 20, 2000. Wilder responds to several questions about I.A.L. Diamond. In full: “I.A.L. Diamond died about 8 years ago of cancer. Never had any political envolvement [sic] or interest. He never had any doings with Mr. McCarthy [the senator]. He never had any pseudonym assumes. It was a fabrication of somebody. So there!”; and a glossy 8 x 10 photo of Wilder, signed in black felt tip. In fine condition. RRAuction COA.

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