I.A.L. Diamond (27 June 1920 - 21 April 1988) was a comedy writer in Hollywood during the 1940 and 50s. He was born Iţec Domnici in Ungheni, Romania, was referred to as "Iz" in Hollywood, and was known to quip that his initials stood for "Interscholastic Algebra League". June 27 is the 178th day of the year (179th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 187 days remaining. ... 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 3 - Babe Ruth is traded by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees for $125,000, the largest sum ever paid for a player at that time. ... April 21 is the 111th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (112th in leap years). ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... The 1950s was the decade spanning the years 1950 to 1959. ... Ungheni is the largest town without a university in the part of Moldova not included within Transnistria. ...

Diamond completed his undergraduate studies at Columbia in 1941. In 1957 he began a collaborative relationship with Billy Wilder on the movie Love in the Afternoon. From there, the pair had a string of hits with Some Like It Hot, The Apartment (which won an Academy Award for Best Screenplay), One, Two, Three, Irma la Douce, the Oscar-nominated The Fortune Cookie and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Billy Wilder Billy Wilder (June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was a screenwriter, film director and producer whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. ... Love in the Afternoon may refer to either of two films: Love in the Afternoon, a 1957 film directed by Billy Wilder Love in the Afternoon, a 1972 film directed by Eric Rohmer ... Some Like It Hot is a 1959 comedy film cowritten and directed by Billy Wilder. ... The Apartment is a 1960 romantic comedy-drama directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and Fred MacMurray. ... The references in this article would be clearer with a different and/or consistent style of citation, footnoting or external linking. ... This article is about the movie. ... Irma la Douce is a 1956 French stage musical whose book and lyrics were written by Alexandre Breffort with music by Marguerite Monnot. ... The Fortune Cookie is a 1967 film with Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon. ... The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes is a 1970 film directed and produced by Billy Wilder, and starring Robert Stephens as Sherlock Holmes. ...

Some of the films which Wilder worked on with Diamond feature characters engaged in friendly squabbling: like Joe and Jerry in Some Like it Hot and Holmes and Watson in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. Diamond's widow claims that it is the sort of relationship her husband had with Wilder.

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Filmography

as Writer

• Buddy Buddy (1981)
• Fedora (1978)
• The Front Page (1974)
• Avanti! (1972)
• The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
• Cactus Flower (1969)
• The Fortune Cookie (1966)
• Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)
• Irma la Douce (1963)
• One, Two, Three (1961)
• The Apartment (1960)
• Some Like It Hot (1959) (screenplay)
• Merry Andrew (1958)
• Love in the Afternoon (1957)
• That Certain Feeling (1956)
• Something for the Birds (1952)
• Monkey Business (1952)
• Let's Make It Legal (1951)
• Love Nest (1951)
• It's a Great Feeling (1949) (story)
• The Girl from Jones Beach (1949)
• Two Guys from Texas (1948)
• Romance on the High Seas (1948) (additional dialogue)
• Always Together (1948)
• Love and Learn (1947)
• Never Say Goodbye (1946)
• Two Guys from Milwaukee (1946)
• Murder in the Blue Room (1944)

The Front Page was a smash hit Broadway comedy written in 1928 by onetime Chicago, Illinois reporters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. ... Avanti is a 1972 comedy directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, Clive Revill, Edward Andrews and Gianfranco Barra. ... The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes is a 1970 film directed and produced by Billy Wilder, and starring Robert Stephens as Sherlock Holmes. ... Cactus Flower is a 1969 film with Goldie Hawn. ... The Fortune Cookie is a 1967 film with Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon. ... Kiss Me, Stupid (1964) was an ahead-of-its-time comedy directed by Billy Wilder and starring Kim Novak and Dean Martin. ... Irma la Douce is a 1956 French stage musical whose book and lyrics were written by Alexandre Breffort with music by Marguerite Monnot. ... This article is about the movie. ... The Apartment is a 1960 romantic comedy-drama directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and Fred MacMurray. ... Some Like It Hot is a 1959 comedy film cowritten and directed by Billy Wilder. ... Merry Andrew is a musical comedy film starring Danny Kaye (as Andrew Larabee) and Pier Angeli (as Selena Gallini). Tommy Rall also appeared in the film (as Ugo Gallini, the most protective of Salenas five brothers). ... Love in the Afternoon is a 1957 film starring Audrey Hepburn, Gary Cooper, and Maurice Chevalier, and directed by Billy Wilder. ... Monkey Business is a screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe, Hugh Marlowe, and Charles Coburn. ... Its a Great Feeling is a 1947 comedy film made by Warner Brothers Studios. ... Never Say Goodbye is the second single from Yoko Onos 1982 album Its Alright (I See Rainbows). Like many of Onos songs from this period, the lyrics deal with her emotional healing following the murder of her her husband John Lennon. ...

as Associate Producer

• Fedora (1978)
• The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
• The Fortune Cookie (1966)
• Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)
• Irma la Douce (1963)
• One, Two, Three (1961)
• The Apartment(1960)
• Some Like It Hot (1959)