Kiss Me Like A Stranger: My Search for Love and Art (30 page)

Gilda’s pregnancy and miscarriage

Gilda’s 1734 house, inheritance of

marriage

meeting and courtship

Wilder, Gene (4th wife: Karen Webb)

courtship

marriage

“Upon Our Marriage,”

Wilder, Gene (career)

acting, influences on

acting lessons

The Actors Studio

awards and honors

as a fencer

HB Studio

method acting

name change

Old Vic Theater School

and the press

Reginald Goode Summer Theater

Jerome Robbins, thank you note to

Stanislavsky and

Strasberg’s class

University of Iowa

Wilder, Gene (acting career: film)

Blazing Saddles

Bonnie and Clyde

Catch-22

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex

The Frisco Kid

Hanky Panky

Haunted Honeymoon

Little Prince

The Producers

Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx

Rhinoceros

See No Evil, Hear No Evil

Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother

Silver Streak

Start the Revolution Without Me

Stir Crazy

Thursday’s Game

Young Frankenstein

Willy Wonka

The Woman in Red

Wilder, Gene (acting career: televison)

Death of a Salesman (Miller)

Murder in a Small Town

Wingless Victory
(Anderson)

Wilder, Gene (acting career: theater)

The Cat and the Canary
(Willard),
The Complaisant Lover
(Greene)

The Crucible
(Miller)

Dynamite Tonight
(Weinstein/Bolcom)

The Late Christopher Bean
(Howard)

Luv
(Schisgal)

Macbeth
(Shakespeare)

The Millionairess
(Shaw)

Mother Courage
(Brecht)

Much Ado About Nothing
(Shakespeare)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
(Wasserman)

Romeo and Juliet
(Shakespeare)

Twelfth Night
(Shakespeare)

The White House
(Hoiby/Hotchner)

Wilder, Gene (directing career: film)

Haunted Honeymoon

Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother, The World’s Greatest Lover

Wilder, Gene (writing career)

as a poet

“
Upon Our Marriage
,”

Wilder, Gene (writing career: film)

Haunted Honeymoon

Hesitation Waltz
(screenplay)

See No Evil, Hear No Evil

Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother

Tough Guy
(screenplay)

The World’s Greatest Lover

Young Frankenstein

Wilder, Gilda Radner (3rd wife).
See
Radner, Gilda

Wilder, Karen Webb (4th wife)

courtship

marriage

Wilder, Katie (adopted daughter)

father, estrangement from

psychological problems

Wilder, Mary (1st wife)

career

marriage

Wilder, (Mary) Jo (2nd wife)

daughter Katie

marriage

marital problems

Wilder, Thornton

Willy Wonka
(film)

box office

Wingless Victory
(Anderson)

Winslow Boy, The
(Rattigan)

Wolfe, Thomas

Wolper, David

Woman in Red, The
(film)

World’s Greatest Lover, The
(film)

Yorkin, Bud

Young, Gig

Young Frankenstein
(film)

budget

casting

editing

filming in black and white

and improvisation

public relations

“Puttin’ On the Ritz” number

rewriting

success

Your Show of Shows
(TV)

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