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BILLY WILDER PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Noel Simsolo | 104 pages | 01 Jun 2011 | Cahiers du Cinema | 9782866426095 | English | Paris, France Billy Wilder filmography - Wikipedia As a youth he was obsessed with everything American. In he worked as an interpreter for jazz band leader Paul Whiteman on a European tour which ended in Berlin. There he became a freelance journalist mixing with the show business set and becoming friendly with Marlene Dietrich, 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 'People on Sunday', a modest film directed by Robert Siodmak, assistant cameraman Fred Zinneman and co-director Edgar Ulmer who would all later become prominent in the industry. Sending a script to Joe May, 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 Charles Brackett to write a script for 'Bluebeard's Eighth Wife' which was followed by such as 'Ninotchka', 'Hold Back the Dawn' and 'Ball of Fire'. 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 Raymond Chandler on 'Double Indemnity' - the house used as Barbara Stanwyck'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 Mae West for the role of Norma Desmond, but she turned it down so he spoke to Pola Negri, but visualized her thick accent causing too many problems. Willam Holden was a last minute casting for the role of Joe after Montgomery Clift 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 Steven Spielberg 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 The Apartment At least three of his films have been made into Broadway musicals. The Apartment was the basis for "Promises, Promises" in Some Like It Hot was the basis for "Sugar" in And Sunset Blvd. Once told Billy Bob Thornton that he was too ugly to be an actor 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 Chico Marx '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 Roman Polanski and Martin Scorsese ; 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 the Holocaust. 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 Hollywood 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 Ernst Lubitsch. 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 Entertainment Weekly. 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, Jack Lemmon. Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. Pages New York: 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 Jews, 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 Dudley Moore and Milton Berle. 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 Germany, 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 The Major and the Minor His favorite film was Battleship Potemkin 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. Ingmar Bergman 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 , Gloria Swanson 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. Jerry Lewis asked him to direct The Bellboy He declined and suggested that Lewis direct it himself.

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