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June 4

Name of a Billy Wilder movie

There is a Billy Wilder movie in wich there is a joke where a man goes to a flower shop, buys some flowers and then gives then to the woman selling them the shop, who inmediately kisses him. I would need to know the title of the movie and, if possible, how much the man pays for the flowers. Thank you.Federico1984 (talk) 15:01, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

Are you sure? Multiple searches of "billy wilder" "flower shop" and billy wilder flower shop and other iterations turn up nothing. Do you know if it was in colour or B&W? Any idea of who might have been in it? Matt Deres (talk) 18:19, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

When you say there was a joke, do you mean this was an actual part of the movie, or was some character telling a joke to someone else? -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 18:50, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

It is an actual part of the movie, but unrelated to the overall plot. I could be confused about the Bily Wilder bit...Federico1984 (talk) 19:16, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

Found it, it was Love In the Afternoon, but it was not exactly a flower shop, it was an old woman selling flowers in the street.Federico1984 (talk) 19:32, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

That's Love in the Afternoon (1957 film). -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 20:23, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

Howard and Lovecraft

Did H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard ever get published in the same issue of a magazine? If so, which one? Perhaps an issue of Weird Tales? (I'm referring to original publishing; I'm pretty sure more recent collections have put them together, particularly since a lot of Lovecraft's stuff is out of copyright). I'm wondering if there's a pulp magazine featuring both. Matt Deres (talk) 18:13, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

Not sure this counts, but Fantasy Magazine (editor: Julius Schwartz) ran a round-robin collaborative serial story titled "The Challenge from Beyond", authored by Lovecraft, Howard, C. L. Moore, A. Merritt, and Frank Belknap Long, all published in the same five consecutive issues in 1935. See e.g. ISFDB. ---Sluzzelin talk 18:25, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

That's very interesting - I did not know about it, thank you - but not quite what I'm looking for this time. :-) Matt Deres (talk) 19:10, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

Alright, but I just realised I phrased it both ambiguously and incorrectly. Texts by and accredited to both Howard and Lovecraft did appear in the same issue, i.e. that of September 1935 (they didn't appear in five consecutive issues, there were just five consecutive pieces in the same issue, that's where I misread and reported lies). But you probably clicked the link and understood everything, just wanted to make sure no one took me by my word. ---Sluzzelin talk 21:31, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

Oh, haha. I opened the link, got a bit confused by the weird layout of the names (on my phone) and just bookmarked it for later. Given the names involved, I'm surprised we don't have an article on The Challenge from Beyond, though a bit of searching did lead me to the actual story itself on Wikisource: here. Anyway, that does meet the criteria, albeit in a way I wasn't expecting at all. Do you know of any others? Matt Deres (talk) 13:41, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

No, but I've seen a number of articles on vintage sci-fi-fantasy magazines being featured, and associate a lot of that work with User:Mike Christie, so I took the liberty of pinging him. ---Sluzzelin talk 14:15, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the ping. Yes, it happened on the occasion of Howard's first sale, in fact; see here. It probably happened multiple times -- you can scan the ISFDB pages linked from here if you're curious. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 15:31, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

Neat! Thank you! Matt Deres (talk) 19:30, 5 June 2019 (UTC)