''The Lady in Question'' is a 1999 American

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directed by

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. It represents the last leading role and film for Gene Wilder and his last credit as screenwriter. As in the previous film ''

Murder in a Small Town ''Murder in a Small Town'' is 1999 American television mystery crime thriller film produced and broadcast by A&E. The period film stars Gene Wilder as Larry "Cash" Carter, a stage director, theater manager, former actor, and unofficial consulting ...

'', Wilder plays the amateur detective Larry "Cash" Carter. It was broadcast by A&E on December 12, 1999.

Plot summary

Cast

* Gene Wilder as Larry "Cash" Carter * Mike Starr as Det. Tony Rossini * Cherry Jones as Mimi Barnes * Barbara Sukowa as Rachel Singer * John Benjamin Hickey as Paul Kessler * Claire Bloom as Emma Sachs *

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as Klaus Gruber *

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as Gertie Moser

Production

After the high ratings A&E received for ''Murder in a Small Town'', the first Cash Carter mystery, ''The Lady in Question'' began filming in

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in May 1999.Dempsey, John, "A&E commits more 'Murder'". ''Daily Variety'', April 6, 1999 Although A&E and Granada Entertainment USA planned to develop the Gene Wilder character as a franchise,DePalma, Anthony
"Wilder Goes Back in Time to Move Ahead".
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'', January 10, 1999 only two Cash Carter films were produced. On January 30, 2000, Wilder was admitted to Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center for a stem-cell transplant, a follow-up to treatment he received in 1999 for

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. Wilder checked in under the name Larry Carter, his character's name in the two A&E films.Wilder, Gene, ''Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art''. New York:

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, 2005, SBN 0-312-33706-X.

Home video releases

* 1999, A&E Home Video, VHS (AAE-17606), * 2002, A&E Home Video, DVD (AAE-72223),

References

External links

* * * *
The Gene Wilder Papers
at the

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