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couldn't, wouldn't. Frisco Kid. | In 1970, he directed The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, which was intended as a major roadshow theatrical release, but to Wilder's dismay was heavily cut by the studio. received the Clarence Derwent Award. In 1945, the Psychological Warfare Department of the United States Department of War produced an American documentary film directed by Wilder. and whom he divorced in 1947, and in 1949 to singer-actress Audrey Young. After ''People on Sunday'' (1930), Mr. Wilder and Robert Siodmak were hired by UFA, the top movie studio in Germany. He has more than 50 movies to his credit, with many undisputed classics among them. In
Billy Wilder, a former reporter, takes a cynics view of journalism in Ace in the Hole, where newsman Chuck Tatum (Kirk Douglas) pushes a story about a small-town incident into a carnival of . "I did. In 1942 Wilder and Brackett entered a new arrangement: Wilder directed, Brackett produced, and both wrote their subsequent projects, beginning with The Major and the Minor (1942), a clever farce in which a woman (Ginger Rogers) who masquerades as a 12-year-old to avoid paying full fare on a train becomes involved with an army officer (Ray Milland) who cannot quite figure why he is so attracted to a young girl. Despite his conservative directorial style, his subject matter often pushed the boundaries of mainstream entertainment. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director eight times, winning twice, and for a screenplay Academy Award 13 times, winning three times. Wilder, his sister and
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He is right. honest, the omission is glaring by comparison. In his private life, Mr. Wilder was abrasive and exuberant, with an impish face and an impertinent irascibility. Premiere Magazine placed another Wilder role on its list of The 100
[25] A. H. Weiler of the New York Times called the film "pitifully unfunny". troubled co-star's drug addiction made him very difficult and
Over the next 12 years, they wrote 13 screenplays and become the most successful screenwriting team of the 1940's. Billy Wilder was an Austrian-born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. The idea had been pitched over the phone to Wilder's secretary by Victor Desny. But I like the end result in 'Some Like It Hot.' They gradually become attracted to each other. thought, 'Friends, oh, it doesn't matter what they do.' If he couldn't talk his way back into the United States -- and he had almost none of the necessary papers -- he might have to wait years to return. disappointed, almost in tears. The studio expected that he would make an arty film and fail. Microfilm Serial:
Billy Wilder ( 22. ervna 1906 Sucha, Hali, Rakousko-Uhersko - 27. bezna 2002 Beverly Hills, Kalifornie, USA) byl americk filmov scenrista a reisr idovskho pvodu, kter je dnes povaovn za jednoho z nejvtch klasik americkho filmu. $12. struggle with ovarian cancer. The Wilder brothers were now safe from the Germans; their mother, grandmother and stepfather died in Auschwitz. In 2006, Premiere Magazine placed one of his performances on its list
in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. sister and I knew it was just a matter of time. Wilder then directed three adaptations of Broadway plays, war drama Stalag 17, for which William Holden won the Best Actor Academy Award, romantic comedy Sabrina, for which Audrey Hepburn was nominated for Best Actress, and romantic comedy The Seven Year Itch, which features the iconic image of Marilyn Monroe standing on a subway grate as her white dress is blown upwards by a passing train. Laughter on the 23rd Floor (London, 1996), External links
Billy Wilder, original name Samuel Wilder, (born June 22, 1906, Sucha, Austria [now in Poland]died March 27, 2002, Beverly Hills, California, U.S.), Austrian-born American motion-picture scenarist, director, and producer known for films that humorously treat subjects of controversy and offer biting indictments of hypocrisy in American life. With the byline, "Garbo Laughs! But he influenced me with that quiet
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This critically acclaimed film was the final film Wilder collaborated with Brackett. and unruly, spiralling crazily in every direction. Birth Date: 21 Dec 1939
Billy Wilder dies at 95 | Daily Mail Online Billy Wilder dies at 95 F ilm-maker Billy Wilder, the man who directed Some Like It Hot, died of pneumonia yesterday in Beverly Hills. Wildar Eugenia
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Billy was a teenager in the post-war years when Vienna faced the perilous new world. Replacing the 1920s German Expressionism cinematic styles of F. W. Murnau and Fritz Lang, People on Sunday was considered as a groundbreaking example of Neue Sachlichkeit or New Objectivity style or movement in German cinema. The romantic comedy starred Greta Garbo (generally known as a tragic heroine in film melodramas), and was popularly and critically acclaimed. that talked of the difference between "holding a hand and chaining a
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Adam Bernstein has spent his career putting the "post" in The Washington Post, first as an obituary writer and then as editor. fact, his life has been driven by women and the search for love. Now he sees guilt as a wasted, selfish emotion. "I owe three hundred dollars,"
The film took the best picture Oscar for 1945. In 1936, Paramount hired Wilder and teamed him with Brackett, a novelist and former New Yorker drama critic. him to take care of her the way he took care of Gilda. Father's Surname: Wilder
His father manufactured miniature beer and whiskey bottles.) But isn't there a paradox about the women he has
For Stalag 17, Wilder squeezed an Oscar-winning performance out of a reluctant William Holden (Holden had wanted to make his character more likable; Wilder refused). "What?" Born in Corbin, Kentucky, on the 26th day of May in 1941, he was the son of the late Vernon Myrton and Lena Laura Ward Wilder. Blazing Saddles. dependent on me," he replies slowly, "I might have cared for them very
Call it bulimia if you want or curiosity or passion. Born in Milwaukee, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, Wilder
During Wilder's 10-month stay in France, he wrote and co-directed one film, "Mauvaise Graine" ("Bad Seed,") about young auto thieves. In Mr. Wilder's second movie as writer-director, ''Five Graves to Cairo'' (1943), the masquerade is deadly. For much of that era, directors were virtually unknown to the general filmgoing public. The film was criticized by some critics for vulgarity, with Bosley Crowther blaming the film for giving American movies the reputation of "deliberate and degenerate corruptors of public taste and morals". The film not only set conventions for the noir genre (such as "venetian blind" lighting and voice-over narration), but is a landmark in the battle against Hollywood censorship. For decades, he instructed his collaborators--first Charles Brackett and later I.A.L. face and he said, 'Don't ever get angry with your mother. His last hit was "The Fortune Cookie" (1965), with Walter Matthau as shyster lawyer "Whiplash" Willie, who can't stoop low enough to get insurance money for his slightly injured brother-in-law. NEARLY 40 years ago, My French Whore was a film script. When I
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Billy Wilder (/waldr/; German: [vld]; born Samuel Wilder; June 22, 1906 March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-American filmmaker. Ironically, it was "Stalag 17," about a German prisoner-of-war camp, that caused Wilder to depart Paramount. Not always appreciated in their time, many of them would garner respect with age, and the filmmaker received a procession of tributes during the past two decades, including the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award and the Directors Guild's D.W. Griffith Award for Lifetime Achievement, both in 1985, and the National Medal of Arts, presented by President Bill Clinton in 1993. After an early career as a journalist in Vienna and then Berlin, Wilder entered the burgeoning Weimar film industry in 1929, first . 19 on Empire magazine's "Top 40 Greatest Directors of All-Time" list in 2005. Wilder said he turned to producing his films in the early 1950s to protect their controversial content. . | Funny About Love (1990)
When that ended, he started writing for Berliner Zeitung am Mittag, called "BZ." A turning point in his career came in 1938 when he began a long and succesful collaboration with screenwriter Charles Brackett which was expanded into a producer-director one in 1942. It was a very successful picture. . Hollywood's 'Boy Wonder' Producer Dies. In the film, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon play Prohibition-era musicians who witness a mob slaying and, to escape the bad guys, masquerade as women in an all-girl band that features Marilyn Monroe on the ukulele. Wilder earned his first screenwriting credit working on Edgar Ulmer and Robert Siodmaks Menschen am Sonntag (People on Sunday; 1930). Mr. Wilder also earned a second nomination that year, for the original story of Howard Hawks's ''Ball of Fire,'' a comedy. didn't want to, when she stopped clinging and suggested he holiday
Developing an interest in film, he began working as a screenwriter. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. female friend. Maybe, since she had already been rejected by one father, she was
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Later on, the family shifted base to Vienna. Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge, by film historian, critic, academic and biographer Joseph McBride, is a comprehensive, invaluable critical study of one of the most admired and enduring. But having gone through that, and
The Wilder Family with a portrait of Billy Wilder in background. Wilder won the Best Director and Best Screenplay Academy Awards for the film adaptation of the novel The Lost Weekend (1945), which also won the Academy Award for Best Picture. abortion. Billy Wilder's Hall of Mirrors By Legacy Staff June 22, 2011 0 Legendary filmmaker Billy Wilder was born June 22, 1906. Diamond from the late 1950s until his last film, "Buddy Buddy" (1981). Instead, he took aim at the box office with the bright ''The Major and the Minor.'' 22 Jun 1948
He was interested in doing a film with one of the classic slapstick comedy acts of the Hollywood Golden Age. I want to leave it that way." 14 Sep 1945
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A Foreign Affair (1948) Approved | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance 7.3 Rate 75 Metascore In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi caf singer and the U.S. congresswoman investigating her. Many of Wilder's films achieved both critical and public . But its critical reputation grew prodigiously; in 2000, the American Film Institute selected it as the best American comedy ever made. His first movie after his military service was The Emperor Waltz (1948), a slight musical set in Austria that starred Bing Crosby and Joan Fontaine. curls. Mother's name: Sarah R
He was 95. childhood. Preparing a dubbed version for German release, the studio suggested he change the Nazi spy to a Polish prisoner-of-war who had sold out to the Nazis. Sucha
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Wilder's colorful entry into screenwriting, as told by biographer Maurice Zolotow, occurred one night in Berlin when he agreed to help his landlady's daughter Lulu out of a jam. Image: 653
think she wanted to lose it even though it was hurting her so much. I also collect tiny Japanese trees, glass paperweights, and Chinese vases. [36], Wilder married Judith Coppicus on December 22, 1936. Like A Stranger, an account of his life covering everything from his
emotional; my father was not emotional. And ''Witness for the Prosecution'' (1957), based on an Agatha Christie play, was a powerfully effective courtroom thriller. Maria perished in 1943 in Warsaw, Poland. Decades before the rise of the "antihero" in popular culture, Wilder's protagonists frequently came across as opportunistic, hard-boiled heels: Fred MacMurray, for example, cast against type as a man driven by lust into a murder plot in "Double Indemnity" (1944), or William Holden as the failed screenwriter who cynically agrees to become the kept man of a faded silent-screen star in "Sunset Boulevard" (1950). But he also had a chance to be a co-director, in ''Mauvaise Graine'' (''Bad Seed''). He doesn't deal in redeeming social values. Ethnicity/Race /Nationality:
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Film: The Hollywood giant's use of the language on and off screen became legendary for its pithiness and its sharp wit. "The glamour of being a director is over," he said in 2000. Featuring Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis as out-of-work musicians who masquerade as women in an all-girl band, which included Monroe as the singer, to escape Chicago gangsters, the film grossed $14 million, the highest for a comedy up to that date. You might
Unable to find a studio willing to back his movies after the box-office failure of ''Buddy Buddy'' in 1981, Mr. Wilder spent the rest of his days accepting the lifetime tributes that he called ''Quick, before they croak!'' "I don't like the idea of redoing," he told The Times in January 2000, when he was honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences prior to a retrospective of 27 of his films presented by the UCLA Film and Television Archive and American Cinematheque. In Love With Words
[citation needed], He directed the comedy film Avanti!, which follows a businessman (Lemmon) attempting to retrieve the body of his deceased father from Italy. Like most of his movies, ''Five Graves to Cairo'' was an adaptation, in this case a radically changed version of a play, ''Hotel Imperial.'' director and writer)
whispered words that changed his life. DraftBoard: 160. In 1949 he married the former Audrey Young, a singer and actress. He was content to let his body of work stand, kept no prints or tapes and rarely watched his movies in his later years. . " She did get married once - I wasn't invited - but it only lasted a
some of the most acclaimed comedy films of his generation. Wilder cried. As a 19-year-old reporter, he became a Vienna tour guide for Whiteman, who took Mr. Wilder to Berlin, where the band was to play. But he hated it because he was the only
Although he respected certain contemporary directors, including Steven Spielberg, Wilder didn't envy them and came to believe that modern audiences flock to theaters because of stars rather than directors. Director and scriptwriter whose European sensibility provided Hollywood with wild humour, dark visions - and Sunset Boulevard, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. Once a subject was chosen, he would begin to visualize in terms of specific artists. Wilder is survived by his wife of 53 years, Audrey, and daughter Victoria. and my sister was off at school. wrote the screenplays for some of them, and now he has turned his hand
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