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What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.

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Billy Wilder
Age: 95 †
Born: 1906
Born: June 22
Died: 2002
Died: March 27
Film Director
Film Producer
Filmmaker
Journalist
Screenwriter
Writer
Samuel Wilder
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Pictures
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Lusty
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Naughty
Lust
Dirty

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