IAL Diamond
IAL Diamond (born June 27, 1920 in Ungheni , Romania (now Republic of Moldova as Itek Domnici ), † April 21, 1988 in Beverly Hills , California ) was an American screenwriter and producer, who was mainly due to his decades of collaboration with Billy Wilder is known.
Life
He gave the initials "IAL" in his stage name as the abbreviation for Interscholastic Algebra League , a group of which he was a member during his school days. When he was nine years old, his family emigrated from what is now Moldova to the USA. He had been working as a screenwriter since 1944 with very successful films like Liebling, I'm Getting Younger . In 1957 he began writing screenplays with Billy Wilder , who always directed and produced, while Diamond was his co-producer. Diamond helped the native Austrian Wilder mainly with the language. He never became famous for Wilder, although he received numerous awards with him. Up to Wilder's last film in 1981, they worked on twelve films together, classics such as Some like it hot , Das Appartement and Avanti, Avanti .
Diamond also ended his career with Wilder's last film and died in 1988. He was married to Barbara Ann Bentley from 1945 until his death and they had two children.
Scripts
- 1944: Murder in the Blue Room
- 1946: Two Guys From Milwaukee
- 1946: Never Say Goodbye
- 1947: Love and Learn
- 1947: Always Together
- 1948: Magic Nights in Rio (Romance on the High Seas)
- 1948: Two Guys From Texas
- 1949: Venus on the Beach (The Girl from Jones Beach)
- 1949: A great feeling (It's a Great Feeling)
- 1951: Love Nest
- 1951: Let's Make It Legal
- 1952: Honey, I'm Getting Younger (Monkey Business)
- 1952: Something for the Birds
- 1956: I'm Marrying My Wife (That Certain Feeling)
- 1957: Ariane - Love in the Afternoon with Wilder
- 1958: King of Jesters (Merry Andrew)
- 1959: Some Like It Hot (Some Like It Hot) with Wilder
- 1960: The apartment (The Apartment) with Wilder
- 1961: One, Two, Three (One, Two, Three) with Wilder
- 1963: The girl Irma la Douce (Irma la Douce) with Wilder
- 1964: Kiss Me, Stupid (Kiss Me, Stupid) with Wilder
- 1966: The Fortune Cookie (The Fortune Cookie) with Wilder
- 1969: Cactus Flower (The Cactus Flower)
- 1970: The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes) with Wilder
- 1972: Avanti, Avanti! (Avanti!) With Wilder
- 1974: Extrablatt (The Front Page) with Wilder
- 1978: Fedora (Fedora) with Wilder
- 1981: Buddy Buddy with Wilder
- 2011: Just Go with It (Just Go With It) - posthumously, remake of Cactus Flower
Awards
Oscar (nominated 3 times)
- 1960 Oscar for the best screenplay based on the model in Das Appartement , together with Billy Wilder
- (Also nominated for: The lucky guy , some like it hot )
New York Film Critics Circle Awards, USA (nominated twice)
- 1960 NYFCC Award for Best Screenplay in The Apartment , together with Billy Wilder
Writers Guide of America, USA (8 nominations)
- 1958 WGA Award (Screen) for the best written American comedy Ariane - Love in the Afternoon (1957), together with Billy Wilder
- 1960 WGA Award (Screen) for Best-Written American Comedy Some Like It Hot (1959) with Billy Wilder
- 1961 WGA Award (Screen) for the best-written American comedy The Apartment (1960) together with Billy Wilder
- 1980 for life's work together with Billy Wilder
Edgar Allan Poe Awards (nominated once) Golden Globes (nominated once)
Individual evidence
- ↑ (Source: IMDb)
Web links
- Literature by and about IAL Diamond in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about IAL Diamond in the German Digital Library
- IAL Diamond in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Diamond, IAL |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Domnici, Itek |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American screenwriter |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 27, 1920 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ungheni |
DATE OF DEATH | April 21, 1988 |
Place of death | Beverly Hills , California, USA |