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Jun 22, 2006 · Writer and director Billy Wilder was the man behind some of Hollywood's most beloved films -- Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Double Indemnity and many more. He wrote or ...
Billy Wilder, orig. Samuel Wilder, (born June 22, 1906, Sucha, Austria—died March 27, 2002, Beverly Hills, Calif., U.S.), Austrian-born U.S. film director and ...
Jul 24, 2009 · When talking about director and screenwriter Billy Wilder, one really only needs to list the titles of his many triumphs in genres as disparate as light comedy and film noir. The Apartment. Double ...
May 19, 2022 · Before he was Billy Wilder, the director of The Apartment, Some Like it Hot, Sunset Boulevard and Irma la Douce, Samuel Wilder was a student, journalist and film lover. . Armed with self-confidence and a love of jazz and storytelling, he carved out a life for himself in Vienna between the wars and in Berlin during the Weimar Repu
Feb 23, 2024 · Applause Books on Film (Rowman/Littlefield Publishing) February 23, 2024 By Donald Brackett Movies are magic. —Van Dyke Parks The thing to do was suggest an idea, have it torn apart and despised. In a few days, it would be apt to turn up, slightly changed, as Wilder's idea. Once I got
Billy Wilder 1906-2002 Almost all the 25 films Billy Wilder made as a writer-director displayed his slashing wit and stinging social satire. Yet no other major filmmaker slipped so easily into so ...
A frustrated city girl disguises herself as a youngster in order to get a cheaper train ticket home. But little "Sue Sue" finds herself in a whole heap of grown-up trouble when she hides out in a compartment with a handsome Major.
