Delmer Daves

During that time,

Wilder served as his leading man's best man when Jack Lemmon got married to Felicia Farr, a former teenage lingerie model turned actress who had been in Delmer Dave's 310 to Yuma.

It was the second marriage for both of them, but this one stuck.

Farr and Lemmon stayed together until Lemmon's death in 2001.

He did

... with Delmer Daves?

Mm-hmm.

Like, uh, he's good in those.

We'll get back to the story credit later on.

Okay, so then we have the writer-director of the film, Delmer Daves, who joins this production.

And born in San Francisco, this was his debut directorial effort.

Quite a sizable film to take on as your first directing effort.

Right, so maybe religious tolerance was the angle they were going to approach for that one.

We're much better at that now.

So Albert Maltz actually stayed working with Delmer Daves for a while because he got nominated for two Oscars in his future, both for Delmer Daves films he worked on.

There was Pride of the Marines, which was very similar to this type of movie.