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As a youth he was obsessed with everything American. In he worked as an interpreter for jazz band leader on a European tour which ended in . There he became a freelance journalist mixing with the show business set and becoming friendly with , a then small part actress. A fast and prolific writer he got introduced to prominent figures in the growing German film industry resulting in him being hired as a ghost writer writing scripts for established writers who didn't have time to meet their contractual obligations. His break came when he worked on '', a modest film directed by , assistant cameraman Fred Zinneman and co-director Edgar Ulmer who would all later become prominent in the industry. Sending a script to , a former friend who was now a producer at Columbia Studios resulted in a ticket to USA and a promise of work. A continual rejection of his scripts put him on the bread line for awhile and then he was teamed with writer to write a script for 'Bluebeard's Eighth Wife' which was followed by such as '', '' and ''. Billy wanted to direct, mainly to protect his scripts which other directors had ruined. After a few more scripts with Charles which Billy directed and Charles produced Billy collaborated with on '' - the house used as 's character's home still stands today at Quebec Drive. Army's Psychological warfare Division with the task of salvaging the German film industry. Returning to the States he rejoined Charles for what would be their last collaboration - 'Sunset Boulevard' which ended their 14 year partnership. Billy wanted for the role of Norma Desmond, but she turned it down so he spoke to , but visualized her thick accent causing too many problems. Willam Holden was a last minute casting for the role of Joe after dropped out 2 weeks before shooting was due to start. Sign In. Edit Billy Wilder. Showing all items. Films feature a sharp wit and characters who frequently try to change their identity. A few of his films feature scenes where characters play cards Sunset Blvd. Wilder himself was an avid bridge and poker player. Father of the twins Victoria and Vincent born Their mother was Judith. Vincent died shortly after birth. He used "Billie" as his first name until his emigration in Lee Wilder , uncle of Myles Wilder. An inveterate clotheshorse, at age 83 he still owned over 60 cashmere sweaters. He wanted to direct Schindler's List , but preferred doing it himself. Wilder has been quoted saying it would have become his most personal film. Had a long-standing partnership with screenwriter I. Diamond , with whom he won an Oscar for At least three of his films have been made into Broadway musicals. The Apartment was the basis for "Promises, Promises" in was the basis for "" in And Sunset Blvd. Once told that he was too ugly to be an and he should write a screenplay for himself in which he could exploit his less than perfect features. Thornton later collected an Oscar for his Sling Blade screenplay. At one point he was slated to direct a movie about the Marx brothers running the United Nations. This was around The project fell apart after 's death in , which was followed by Harpo Marx 's death in He collaborated closely with Steven Spielberg on the script for Schindler's List , and was one of several directors considered to direct it and ; both turned down the project. Although Wilder strongly considered directing Schindler's List , he felt he was a little too old he had already retired and the subject was almost too personal his mother, step-father and grandmother were killed in . It was ultimately Wilder who told Spielberg he should direct it. His mother, Gitla Siedlisker, was murdered in in the Plaszow concentration camp. His stepfather, Bernard Berl Siedlisker, died in in the Belzec concentration camp, while his grandmother, Balbina Baldinger, died in in the ghetto of Nowy Targ. In he married Audrey Young , an actress and former singer with the Tommy Dorsey band, whom he met on the set of The Lost Weekend The film was to open with Stan and Ollie each sleeping in one of the "o"s of the sign. The plot centered on a woman coming between them. The film was never made due to Hardy's failing health. His idol and mentor was German director . Wilder always kept a sign hanging in his office that asked, "How would Lubitsch do it? Although born as Samuel Wilder, he was called "Billy" by his mother from infancy and it stuck. Some theorize it was due to her fascination with the western character Buffalo Bill Cody, but it may have been just because she thought it sounded American she was obsessed with American culture. Was voted the 24th Greatest Director of all time by . Because of his rounded face and non-stop elfin energy, people often pictured him as short and wiry, but he was in fact near 6 feet tall taller than his favorite star, . Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. Pages : The H. Wilson Company, Liked the name "Sheldrake" so much that he used it in three different films, most prominently in The Apartment , but also in Sunset Blvd. It is thought that Wilder gained his acerbic view of people early on. His family, Austrian , traveled constantly, and Wilder almost never made friends among his peers at school and instead found himself the subject of persecution as both a Jew and a foreigner. Not having seen his parents since he went to Berlin to make films, he joined American patrols through war-torn Europe shortly after the war. Through intense research he found out that both his mother and grandmother were killed in concentration camps, a subject that he usually declined to discuss. However, when shooting a film with Wilder, an actor expressed sympathy for his own Nazi character, to which the usually cool-headed Wilder roared, "Those bastards killed my mother!!! Wilder had tried to enter the U. At the point of losing hope, he went to a new immigration officer who asked him his profession. After stating he was a filmmaker, the officer stamped his papers, and upon entering the U. Milland, Holden and Matthau won Oscars for their performances in a Wilder film. In he won all three for The Apartment As a writer, he had odd habits. On the one hand, he hated writing alone, so he almost always used a partner, someone to be in the room with him while he worked. On the other hand, many of the partners complained that if he heard an idea he did not like, he could be cruel and insulting. Many writers quit on him because they could not take his abuse. One of the most eclectic writer-directors ever. He died on the same day as and . He and Moore both died of pneumonia. Of the three, Wilder is the only one who never made a guest appearance in The Muppet Show In his last years he became patron of the "Billy-Wilder-Institute" located in , a film school founded to educate only producers and screenwriters. The school was closed after just two years because of the death of its founder and dean Lothar Rhode. On the first page of every screenplay of his own he used to write "Cum Deo" With God , a habit he said he had taken from Pauline Kael. His first Hollywood film was His favorite film was Walker, D. Johnson, eds. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, The song, "Isn't it Romantic? He worked closely with two co-writers in his career: earlier in his career with Charles Brackett , an older man who frequently provided a strong argumentative counterpoint in the writing room and later with I. Diamond , who possessed a cynical, humorous world view more in line with Wilder's. claimed that Wilder was his favorite Hollywood director. Was a fan of the British film Brief Encounter It inspired him to make the movie The Apartment The premise for The Apartment is based on a male character who loans out his flat to a friend and doesn't care what happens while he's out. He was always uncomfortable around children and was an absentee father to his two children from his first marriage. He and his second wife, Audrey, agreed that they didn't want children. A whodunit set in s Hollywood, it has Raymond Chandler as the hero and Wilder as his antagonist, causing trouble for Chandler because of their bad blood during the making of Double Indemnity Despite directing some of the most iconic female performances of all time, such as Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity , in Sunset Blvd. He was asked to direct Cabaret He was asked to direct The Sound of Music He joked that he would have focused on the Nazis. asked him to direct The Bellboy He declined and suggested that Lewis direct it himself. He has directed seven films that have been selected for the by the as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Double Indemnity , The Lost Weekend , Sunset Blvd. He wrote all of those films in addition to Midnight , Ninotchka and Ball of Fire , all of which are in the registry as well. tells in his that he was surprised to see Billy Wilder living in a flat instead a villa. Caine visited the apartment and said that it was full of paintings, with no room left to hang them on the walls. While shooting the barnstorming sequence in "The Spirit of St. Louis," on a bet from Jimmy Stewart, Wilder was persuaded to fly on top of a biplane as a wing-walker. Some pictures play wonderfully to a room of eight people. I don't go for that. I go for the masses. I go for the end effect. A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, "My father is an idiot. All his theories were based on the analysis of very short people! After a year he dropped out to work as a sports reporter for a newspaper. A major paper in Berlin hired him away in to cover the crime beat, experience that would serve him well in his subsequent career. More scripts for a variety of German and French films followed over the next four years, but when the Nazis took power in , Wilder, like so many other Jews in the arts, fled. In Wilder and Brackett entered a new arrangement: Wilder directed, Brackett produced, and both wrote their subsequent projects, beginning with The Major and the Minor , a clever farce in which a woman who masquerades as a year-old to avoid paying full fare on a train becomes involved with an army officer who cannot quite figure why he is so attracted to a young girl. It was followed by Double Indemnity , one of the most searing of the early films noir and, in the eyes of many historians, the apotheosis of the genre. James M. The genial Fred MacMurray , cast against type, played a jaded insurance salesman who conspires with the sexy wife of a prospective client Barbara Stanwyck to insure her husband, kill him, collect the money, and spend it together. Wilder had arrived. Milland gave a career-defining performance as an aspiring writer whose weekend drinking binge nearly costs him his life. Both critics and audiences embraced this powerful cautionary tale, which won the Academy Award as best picture, while Milland won for best actor, Wilder won as best director, and Wilder and Brackett won for their screenplay. Although Wilder was arguably the hottest director in Hollywood, he put his film career on hiatus for three years to join the army, serving as a colonel in the Psychological Warfare Division in occupied Berlin. starred as a prim congresswoman on a fact-finding mission, and was the calculating army captain who tries to protect his well-paid mistress Marlene Dietrich , in one of her last significant screen roles. Article Contents. Print print Print. Table Of Contents. Billy Wilder | About Billy Wilder | | PBS

Then another guy jumps out of his car and photographs the thing. I've got to get to the 'L. I've got a picture. I've got to move. I just took a picture here. I've got to deliver it. The Austrians are brilliant people. If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you. An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but imbeciles together in the dark--that is critical genius. The subtlest comedy you can get right now is MASH They don't want to see a picture unless Peter Fonda is running over a dozen people or unless has got a machine gun bigger then penises. It gets bigger all the time, you know; it started out as a pistol and now it's a machine gun. Something which is warm and funny and gentle and urbane and civilized hasn't got a chance today. There is a lack of patience which is sweeping the nation--or the world, for that matter. In certain pictures I do hope they will leave the cinema a little enriched, but I don't make them pay a buck and a half and then ram a lecture down their throats. You watch, the new wave will discover the slow dissolve in ten years or so. What critics call dirty in our movies, they call lusty in foreign films. An actor enters through a door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through a window, you've got a situation. The close-up is such a valuable thing-- like a trump at bridge. Number two is to get away from the house and the vacuum cleaner. I want to be in my office and think. And number three, it's very exciting. I like to tell stories. Ultimately it's interesting. You meet nice people, it's glamorous, and, if you get lucky, very profitable. You suffer a great deal, but to paraphrase President [ Harry S. Truman ], if you can't take all that crap, get out of the studio. Believe me, this is not a profession for a dignified human being. I can see the interest in pictures when I talk to you students [at the ], especially now that almost every university has something connected with movies. But if I had a son I would beat him with a very large whip trying to make a gardener, a dentist or something else out of him. Don't do it. It's just too tough. It hurts, and the moments of glory are very far between. Well, it's too late for me to turn back, too late for me to become a gardener. I can't bend over the azaleas. Not anymore. We understand each other very well and it's a pleasure to work with him. He is a thinking actor, but not an argumentative one. By that way I mean if we start shooting at nine o'clock, he would be there at and would come to my office and say, "Hey, I've got a great idea! Look, why don't we do this? Blah, blah, blah, blah. Everybody in the audience is an idiot, but taken together they're a genius. When you say that I am searching for truth, and uh so and so, you French really know how to flatter somebody. I'm just trying to make a living. Get two hours of film, and I don't really give a shit if whether how true it is, great it is. Just get it over with. Where's that? I don't think that making movies is my entire life. But there's one thing, you know, that I hate more than not being taken seriously, is to be taken too seriously. Kids, I don't know. There was an actress named . She was always late. She never remembered her lines. She was a pain in the ass. My Aunt Millie is a nice lady. If she were in pictures she would always be on time. She would know her lines. She would be nice. Why does everyone in Hollywood want to work with Marilyn Monroe and no one wants to work with my Aunt Millie? Because no one will go to the movies to watch my Aunt Millie. But to be killed by a bottle of vodka and a night table--what a lousy fade-out of a great guy! They live together quite happily until one day he learns that she isn't his mother. So he commits suicide. Monroe had a problem with Monroe. Others can act their ass to shreds and nothing happens. But Garbo has a sixth sense, like [ Marilyn Monroe ], a sense for what is appropriate. If there are two guys that think the same way, that have the same background, that have the same political convictions and all the rest, it's terrible. It's not collaboration. It's like pulling on one end of the rope. View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro. Edit page. Most Oscar Winners. My favourite directors. Passed min Comedy, Drama, Romance. A playboy becomes interested in the daughter of his family's chauffeur, but it's his more serious brother who would be the better man for her. Votes: 58, Not Rated min Comedy, Romance. When his family goes away for the summer, a hitherto faithful husband with an overactive imagination is tempted by a beautiful neighbor. Approved min Adventure, Biography, Drama. Charles 'Slim' Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing. Votes: 7, Not Rated min Comedy, Crime, Drama. A middle-aged playboy becomes fascinated by the daughter of a private detective who has been hired to entrap him with the wife of a client. Votes: 13, Approved min Crime, Drama, Mystery. A veteran British barrister must defend his client in a murder trial that has surprise after surprise. Passed min Comedy, Music, Romance. After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in. A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue. Not Rated min Comedy. In West Berlin during the , a Coca-Cola executive is given the task of taking care of his boss' socialite daughter. Votes: 19, In Paris, a former policeman falls in love with a prostitute, and tries to get her out of that life by paying for all of her time. Approved min Comedy, Romance. Jealous piano teacher Orville Spooner sends his beautiful wife, Zelda, away for the night while he tries to sell a song to famous nightclub singer Dino, who is stranded in town. Votes: 12, PG min Adventure, Comedy, Crime. When a bored Holmes eagerly takes the case of Gabrielle Valladon after an attempt on her life, the search for her missing husband leads to Loch Ness and the legendary monster. R min Comedy, Romance. His mother Eugenia had spent several years in the in her youth. Wilder briefly studied law in Vienna before obtaining a newspaper job writing interviews, crime and sports stories, and hard-hitting personal profiles. He remained in Germany co- writing and directing films until the rise of the Nazis forced him to move to France, and ultimately to the United States. Wilder arrived in Hollywood in with virtually no money and little knowledge of English. Billy Wilder - Biography - IMDb

Jean Arthur starred as a prim congresswoman on a fact-finding mission, and John Lund was the calculating army captain who tries to protect his well-paid mistress Marlene Dietrich , in one of her last significant screen roles. Article Contents. Print print Print. Table Of Contents. Facebook Twitter. Give Feedback External Websites. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article requires login. External Websites. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. Michael Barson Michael Barson is the author of more than a dozen books that examine various facets of American popular culture in the 20th century, about which he has been interviewed by National Public Radio on several Often running into criticism for his presentation of taboo topics such as alcoholism and prostitution, the high quality of the films redeemed him in the eyes of both the public and the industry. The late s and s, however, were not as kind to Wilder. Similar showings were later held in Paris, Berlin and Los Angeles. He has received many awards and tributes including the National Medal of Honor awarded by President Clinton. It's as red as the Daily Worker and twice as sore. Wilder is sometimes confused with director . Both were German-speaking Jews with similar backgrounds and names. However, their output as directors was quite different: Wyler preferred to direct epics and heavy dramas, while Wilder was noted for his comedies and type dramas. He has a star on the . Wilder became well known for owning one of the finest and most extensive art collections in Hollywood, mainly collecting modern art. As he described it in the mids, "It's a sickness. I don't know how to stop myself. Call it bulimia if you want — or curiosity or passion. I have some Impressionists, some Picassos from every period, some mobiles by Calder. I also collect tiny Japanese trees, glass paperweights, and Chinese vases. Name an object and I collect it. By the early 90s, Wilder had amassed many plastic-artistic constructions, many of which were made in collaboration with artist Bruce Houston. In , art dealer Louis Stern , a longtime friend, helped organize an exhibition of Wilder's work at his Beverly Hills gallery. Wilder married Judith Coppicus on December 22, The couple had twins, Victoria and Vincent born , but Vincent died shortly after birth. They divorced in They stayed together until his death. Wilder died in of pneumonia at the age of 95 after battling health problems, [23] including cancer, at his home in Beverly Hills, California. Marilyn Monroe 's crypt is located in the same cemetery. Wilder died the same day as two other comedy legends: Milton Berle and Dudley Moore. Nobody's perfect. Wilder holds a significant place in the history of Hollywood censorship for expanding the range of acceptable subject matter. He is responsible for two of the film noir era's most definitive films in Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard. Along with and the Marx Brothers , he leads the list of films on the American Film Institute's list of funniest American films with five films written as well as having the honor of holding the top spot on it with Some Like it Hot. The American Film Institute has ranked four of Wilder's films among their top American films of the 20th century : Sunset Boulevard no. But I just believe in Billy Wilder Wilder received twenty one nominations at the ; thirteen for his screenwriting, and eight for his direction. He garnered lifetime achievement awards including the Irving G. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. American filmmaker. Not to be confused with William Wilder. Wilder with Gloria Swanson c. Beverly Hills, California , U. Judith Coppicus. Audrey Young. Main article: Billy Wilder filmography. Marshman Jr. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. February Archived from the original PDF on February 25, Retrieved May 2, April 4, Archived from the original on May 9, Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 13, . Retrieved February 4, Amsterdam University Press, The Grove Book of Hollywood. Grove Press, Neue Zuercher Zeitung. Billy Wilder, American Film Realist. American Film Institute. Retrieved June 6, . Conversations with Wilder. The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 25, Retrieved December 17, Lehigh University Press. British Academy Film Awards. Retrieved December 19, Directors Guild of America. Hollywood Foreign Press Association. University Press of Kentucky. Writers Guild of America. Billy Wilder. Films directed by Billy Wilder. Awards for Billy Wilder. Academy Award for Best Director. Mankiewicz Joseph L. Mankiewicz John G. Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Herman J. Clarke Charles Brackett , Richard L. Ward

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Passed min Comedy, Music, Romance. After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in. A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue. Not Rated min Comedy. In West Berlin during the Cold War, a Coca-Cola executive is given the task of taking care of his boss' socialite daughter. Votes: 19, In Paris, a former policeman falls in love with a prostitute, and tries to get her out of that life by paying for all of her time. Approved min Comedy, Romance. Jealous piano teacher Orville Spooner sends his beautiful wife, Zelda, away for the night while he tries to sell a song to famous nightclub singer Dino, who is stranded in town. Votes: 12, PG min Adventure, Comedy, Crime. When a bored Holmes eagerly takes the case of Gabrielle Valladon after an attempt on her life, the search for her missing husband leads to Loch Ness and the legendary monster. R min Comedy, Romance. A successful businessman goes to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon-father's body only to discover dad died with his mistress of long standing. PG min Comedy, Drama, Romance. A ruthless editor tries to get his top reporter to cover one more crime story before retirement. PG min Drama, Romance. Down-on-his- luck Hollywood producer Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler attempts to lure , a famous but reclusive film actress, out of retirement. R 96 min Comedy. During a high profile Mafia testimony case in California's Riverside County, a hired killer checks into a hotel room near the courthouse, while his depressed next-door neighbor wants to commit suicide due to marital problems. Sign In. Copy from this list Export Report this list. Refine See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. Feature Film 25 Short Film 1. IMDb user rating average 1 1. Bad Seed 77 min Comedy, Drama, Romance 6. An Oscar nominee for its widescreen, black-and-white cinematography. The film earned six Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director for Wilder, and lead and supporting acting bids respectively for Laughton and Elsa Lancaster as his live-in nurse. Written by Billy Wilder and I. Wilder hit the Oscar jackpot for the first time with this with harrowing look at the effects of alcoholism. Based on the novel by Charles R. Jackson, it centers on a writer Ray Milland who blows off a weekend getaway with his girlfriend and brother Phillip Terry to go on a four day drinking binge in the original book, the boozing stems from him being a closeted homosexual, which the movie leaves out. She stars in this sparkling, effervescent as Sabrina, the glamorous daughter of a chauffeur who works for the wealthy Larrabee family. She has been in love with playboy son David Holden all her life, and he suddenly starts returning her affections. But older brother Linus Bogart finds himself drawn to her as well, and just might be a better match. Sefton, a cynical American POW who openly barters with the German camp leaders to receive special treatment, much to the consternation of the other inmates. Per usual with Wilder, the satire is pitch black and biting. is at his most vicious as a ruthless, hard-drinking reporter kicked out of every major news outlet in the country. Stuck at a small-time Albuquerque newspaper, he sees an opportunity to revive his career when a man becomes trapped in a mine. Ahead of his time as always, Wilder indicts both carnival-like journalism and the audiences who eat it up. Though it tanked at the box office, the film did earn the director yet another Oscar nomination for screenwriting. Based on James M. Robinson is hot on the case. The film earned seven Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and writing and directing bids for Wilder. Diamond, based on the story by and Michael Logan. It also features Marilyn Monroe at her most tantalizing and Jack Lemmon as his comedic best. Lemmon and star as musicians who have to go on the run after witnessing a mob hit. While Curtis tries to romance Monroe by also playing a lookalike, Lemmon finds himself being chased by a wealthy bachelor Joe E. The film earned six Oscar nominations, including writing and directing bids for Wilder. It centers on C. He worked on and off until , when he began a long and fruitful collaboration with Charles Brackett. Diamond in While he often wrote and directed penetrating films about the shallowness of modern life, he was capable of creating equally successful comedies. 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