Billy Wilder didn’t think much of his movie The Fortune Cookie. The tale of football and fraud is well liked — and features an Oscar-winning performance by Walter Matthau. It was the first in a series of screen collaborations between Matthau and Jack Lemmon, Still, Wilder once told writer-director Cameron Crowe that the Cookie “is not a memorable picture. … It was just sort of there.”
But there’s plenty of there there when it comes to local memories.
The movie, which was released in 1966, was shot partly in Cleveland in the fall of 1965. It featured the Browns, the old Cleveland stadium, St.