The Kralahome dismissed Anna""s claim: "King do not always remember what he promise." Anna firmly retorted: "I have come here to work and I intend to work, but I shall take nothing less than I have been promised.When he confronted the driver seated in the parked vehicle, he was headlocked, rendered unconscious, and kidnapped by the Tooth Fairy.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).The title of the film was a slight spoof of D.W.Griffith""s similarly-titled silent romantic dramaWay Down East (1920)with Lillian Gish.Aside from their classicSons of the Desert (1933), Laurel and Hardy appeared in many films, notablyThe Flying Deuces (1939),A Chump At Oxford (1940), and the comedy shortThe Music Box (1932).