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I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to look down on.

Billy Wilder

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Billy Wilder
Age: 95 †
Born: 1906
Born: June 22
Died: 2002
Died: March 27
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Journalist
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Samuel Wilder
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