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:<\/p>\n[Barbara Stanwyck<\/i>] was just an extraordinary woman. She took the script, loved it, right from the word go, didn’t have the agent come and say, “Look, she’s to play a murderess, she must get more money, because she’s never going to work again.” With Stanwyck, I had absolutely no difficulties at all. And she knew the script, everybody’s<\/i> lines. You could wake her up in the middle of the night and she’d know the scene. Never a fault, never a mistake — just a wonderful brain she had…<\/p>\n
And then there was an actor by the name of Fred MacMurray at Paramount, and he played comedies. Small dramatic parts, big parts in comedies. I let him read it, and he said, “I can’t do that.” And I said, “Why can’t you?” He said, “It requires acting!” I said, “Look, you have now arrived in comedy, you’re at a certain point where you either have to stop, or you have to jump over the river and start something new.” He said, “Will you tell me when I’m no good?” [Wilder nods; a partnership is born<\/i>.]<\/p>\n
And he was wonderful because it’s odd casting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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