Rescuing celebrants from fake island sinking with weight of festivities as #billywilder gifted it to people of 🇨🇦. #EmperorWaltz 1948. Island built for kiss between #bingcrosby & #joanfontaine, moored off Leach Lake & pulled to shore with pulleys for closeups.
📚📽️ #JasperNationalPark

Animal trainer #FrankInn & #EmperorWaltz stars check out of the #jasperparklodge in spring 1946.
Dirs. #BillyWilder #CharlesBrackett @paramountpictures.bsky.social
Poodle chewed gum to mask offending breath from human stars while filming. #BingCrosby #JoanFontaine
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Who let the dogs direct?
#BillyWilder
Jasper, Alberta. Summer 1946.
Making #EmperorWaltz - his first colour film.

An "unWilder" Viennese trifle" that "yaps at everything in sight" but ultimately "lightens the weariness of life" as the world came out of a coma after WW2. #stunningbackdrop 🎥

World came out of a coma after WW2. Trainer Frank Inn checks out of Jasper Alberta hotel with stars (& guest) of #EmperorWaltz movie 1946. Dir. #BillyWilder made cinematic confection to help heal broken souls.
I will not give in to the lies. 💪 I will not give in to the fear. 🥰
jimacosta@bsky.social