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Double Idemnity (1944)

1. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036775/

• The blonde wig that Barbara Stanwyck is wearing throughout the movie was the idea of Billy Wilder. A month into shooting Wilder suddenly realized how bad it looked, but by then it was too late to re-shoot the earlier scenes. To rationalize this mistake, in later interviews Wilder claimed that the bad-looking wig was intentional.
• The door to Neff's apartment opens away from, rather than toward, the apartment. This was a violation of the Los Angeles Fire Code.
• [first lines] Building attendant: Well, hello there, Mr. Neff.
• Referenced in The 55th Annual Academy Awards (1983)
• Bill Wilder also directed films such as, Some Like It Hot (1959), Sunset Blvd. (1950), The Apartment (1960).

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Indemnity_(film)

• James M. Cain based his novella on a 1927 murder perpetrated by a married Queens, New York woman and her lover whose trial he attended while working as a journalist in New York.
• An immediate hit with audiences despite a campaign by singer Kate Smith imploring the public to stay away on moral grounds.
• Double Indemnity was nominated for seven Oscars, but did not win any.
• Double Indemnity was adapted as a radio play on two broadcasts.
• In 1945, Producers Releasing Corporation, one of the B movie studios of Hollywood’s Poverty Row, was set to release a blatant rip-off titled Single Indemnity starring Ann Savage and Hugh Beaumont. Paramount quickly slapped an injunction on the cut-rate potboiler that remains in force to this day. PRC eventually edited its film down to 67 minutes, re-titled it Apology for Murder, and sold it to television in the early 50s as part of a syndicated half-hour mystery show.

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