Wilder""s previousThe Lost Weekend (1945)had also won Best Picture and Best Director.Wilder would cast Jack Lemmon in five more films as a leading man, includingIrma La Douce (1963),The Fortune Cookie (1966),Avanti! (1972),The Front Page (1974), andBuddy Buddy (1981).It blew books off shelves from twenty feet away and scared the socks off some poor librarian!Ray insisted that Venkman join him to leave immediately, and informed him that a third parapsychologist co-worker Dr.Once it was discovered that he was born an Israelite through Bithiah""s traitorous servant Memnet (Judith Anderson) who had kept Moses"" Levite swaddling clothes, Moses was banished by Rameses.Many comparisons were made between the languorously-pacedGiantandGone With the Wind (1939)from 17 years earlier: both were epics of the South with a strong male and female character (Hudson - Rhett Butler, and Taylor - Scarlett O""Hara), a central ranch or plantation (Reata and Tara), and adapted from a novel by a female author (Ferber and Margaret Mitchell).