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  • filming of The Pink Panther
    Blake Edwards
    / Later films

    S.O.B. (1981) came next. A savage lampooning of the film industry, it received a mixed response from critics, who were much more in agreement with their general praise for Victor/Victoria (1982), which received a clutch of Academy Award nominations. It was based on a 1933…

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    S.O.B. (1981) came next. A savage lampooning of the film industry, it received a mixed response from critics, who were much more in agreement with their general praise for Victor/Victoria (1982), which received a clutch of Academy Award nominations. It was based on a 1933…

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  • William Holden in Stalag 17 (1953), directed by Billy Wilder.
    William Holden

    …Tim Culley in Blake Edwards’s S.O.B. (1981; Holden’s final film)—captured a bit of Holden’s real-life bitterness and depression and added a tinge of melancholy to his screen image.

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    …Tim Culley in Blake Edwards’s S.O.B. (1981; Holden’s final film)—captured a bit of Holden’s real-life bitterness and depression and added a tinge of melancholy to his screen image.

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