that much crazier than I am.' As a young man, Wilder once came home and found her sitting
member of The Actors Studio and gained notoriety in the Broadway scene
116 min But he is also mischievous. It won Wilder Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. Wilder earned the Oscars for Best Director and Best Screenplay and Milland won Best Actor. Frances Obodal 18 servant (from German background). have no regrets and no complaints.". He first considered, and rejected, a project to star Laurel and Hardy. custom, he does not describe one single thing about how he felt. Wilder, Austrian-born, but in the US since . declined; the role went to Gene Hackman. But I've had a wonderful career, I've got
"I said to myself, 'That fellow's crazy, but not
"I had a new Graham-Page American car and a new apartment furnished in Bauhaus, and I sold everything for a few hundred dollars," Wilder said many years later. he wouldn't stop his wife having more children, but he didn't actively
Paris making a film and I was very lonely. . But his best known avocation unquestionably was collecting modern and contemporary art, which he pursued passionately from the beginning of his long career. James Cagney, not usually known for comedy, was memorable in a high-octane comic role for Wilder's One, Two, Three. After a year he dropped out to work as a sports reporter for a Vienna newspaper. Race: White
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development, were influenced by her illness. [43] Wilder was voted at No. I had the feeling he
The American Film Institute has ranked four of Wilder's films among their top 100 American films of the 20th century: Sunset Boulevard (no. [1] In 1960, Wilder co-wrote, directed and produced the critically acclaimed film The Apartment. Webb was at the time a clinical
$5 million gift from Audrey Wilder, wife of the late film director and writer Billy Wilder, for whom the theater is named, the museum was able to hire Michael Maltzan Architecture and Cambridge, Massachusetts-based lighting design firm Lam Partners to create the new 295-seat theatera screening room capable of projecting everything in the university's extensive film and television archive, from the earliest nitrate films to the latest in digital video
romantic story, and I thought, 'When I go back to New York I am going
This was home. [13] In 1932 Wilder collaborated with the writer and journalist Felix Salten on the screenplay for "Scampolo". After his passing, Cameron said this about Billy's movies, "are a world-wide language of love, intelligence and sparking wit. emotion than by intellect. doesn't matter. He wrote or. He opposed the Vietnam War and the war
Wilder coaxed a very effective performance out of Monroe in Some Like It Hot. I have sadnesses. and then at the University of Iowa, the Bristol Old Vic and the Actors
at the University of Iowa graduated in 1955, and later attended the
One day a young
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. When Hitler came to power in January 1933, the 26-year-old Mr. Wilder fled Germany. Corrections? Lucian Baldinger was born in Lodz in 1925 to Mikhael and Miriam. 1,434 records for Billy Wilder. away because there wasn't any reason for them any more." when a girlfriend told him she was pregnant. childhood, when his mother died of heart disease, up to his wife's
The World's Greatest Lover (1977) (also producer, director, and writer)
was going to say that. able to have sex. Among the film's more surprising elements are an Academy Award-winning performance by Milland, formerly a light-comedy actor, and nightmarish scenes in the detox ward of New York's Bellevue Hospital. Blazing Saddles (1974)
"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. Hyde.'' An audience at a sneak preview in Santa Barbara laughed derisively, and some people even walked out. Joe May, a director Mr. Wilder had known at UFA, was by this time producing movies in Hollywood for Columbia. He was always too scared
"I wish he had paid me more attention. stony-faced on his bed with a letter in her hand, sent to him by a
In 1940, she was 0 years old and lived in Beverly Hills, California, with her father, mother, and sister. 80. Masquerades are among the major themes in Wilder movies. fact, his life has been driven by women and the search for love. Wilder starred in
group to raise awareness of cancer. Coranne Silberman 11/12 ( born in 1929)
me, swear at me, go into a rage - but answer me.' There were 150 to 200 directors at this meeting, and here Billy and I sat alone with our hands raised in protest against the loyalty oath."[32]. Raymond Chandler disliked him so much when they worked together on the screenplay for ''Double Indemnity'' that he tried to get him fired. He had an inventive talent for making unpleasant situations hilarious, and he had the courage to deal with traditionally taboo subjects. Place of Origin:
IN AUGUST 1945, THREE MONTHS AFTER ADOLF HITLER'S SUICIDE in the bunker and the Allied victory in Europe, the Hollywood film director Billy Wilder arrived in Berlin. Billy Wilder
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In the film, Ginger Rogers pretends to be a 12-year-old because she has no money for a full-fare train ticket; Ray Milland is an Army major who, to his discomfort, finds himself falling for a child. But he worked all the
Birth Date: 15 Mar 1878
My French Whore, by Gene WIlder (11.99, Old Street Publishing), is
Her Body Measurements are 44-33-19 Inch. After his childhood, he wanted the attention. Or maybe this and 'Sunset Boulevard.' His final films, Fedora and Buddy Buddy, failed to impress critics or the public, although Fedora has since been re-evaluated and is now considered favorably. . 125 min LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ever the contrarian, Oscar-winning filmmaker Billy Wilder made a career of romanticizing cynicism. he asks. Hanky Panky (1982)
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Regarding Wilder's more comedic films, critic Roger Ebert wrote: "he took the characters seriously, or at least as seriously as the material allowed, and got a lot of the laughs by playing scenes straight."[30]. By the early '90s, Wilder had amassed many plastic-artistic constructions, many of which were made in collaboration with artist Bruce Houston. One branch of Gilda's Club in
"Things are always cooking in the back of my mind or in the back of a drawer," he said in 1988. After emigrating from Germany to escape the Nazi threat, Wilder started out in Hollywood as a screenwriter -- always teamed with a co-writer, a method he never abandoned. A number of his films, such as Sunset Boulevard (1950) and The Apartment (1960), weighed the emptiness of modern life. ''Sabrina'' was remade in 1995 and failed with critics and audiences. ''Most of the refugees had a secret hope that Hitler would be defeated and they could go back home,'' Mr. Wilder said in a 1990 interview. She asked how much he had. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Before achieving success as a writer, he was a taxi dancer in Berlin. Wilder
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Wilder directed 27 films in his lifetime, won six Oscars, received many lifetime achievement awards, and had 10 of his films preserved in the National Film Registry by Congress. You did? He has finally found it, exorcised the demons. "Because I would be number two, and I want to be
. Max died when Billy was 22 years old. Updates? To advance his career Wilder decided to move to Berlin, Germany
The millionaire's reply: "Well, nobody's perfect.". detective Larry "Cash" Carter. But despite being nominated for several Oscars, including MacLaine for best actress, the film won no major awards. in Harrods. "I'm not a born director," he told Crowe. Wilder's hometown of Milwaukee. Wildar Eugenia
Wilder met Audrey Young while filming The Lost Weekend. Arrival Date:
Billy Wilder, scriptwriter and director, born June 22, 1906; died March 27 2002. Wilder helped make possible and palatable later generations of mature Hollywood fare, from Robert Altman's "M*A*S*H" to Mike Nichols's "Carnal Knowledge," not to mention countless films marked chiefly by vulgarity. Comedy, Drama, Romance, Approved 24 in its "50 Greatest Directors" list. Wilder became well known for owning one of the finest and most extensive art collections in Hollywood, mainly collecting modern art. Wilder received twenty-one nominations at the Academy Awards, winning six. He arrived in Hollywood in 1934, hampered by not speaking English, and after a six-month contract with Columbia expired, he was out of work for two years. his number one? He is going to buy socks in the famous shop across the road. "It scared the bejesus out of
In 1979 Wilder starred alongside Harrison Ford in the comedy The
language of 'let's pretend'. Were they close while away from the Paramount lot? 19 on Empire magazine's "Top 40 Greatest Directors of All-Time" list in 2005. Wilder received various honors over his distinguished career between the late 1980s and 1990s. The idea had been pitched over the phone to Wilder's secretary by Victor Desny. (Leo McCarey had had similar success in 1944, when his ''Going My Way'' defeated Mr. Wilder's ''Double Indemnity,'' but because Paramount took the best-picture award, as was the custom then, McCarey carried home only two statues.) The answer to guilt is action. The cynicism, he said, ''is sort of disappointed romanticism at heart -- someone once described it as whipped cream that's gotten slightly curdled.'' He doesn't deal in redeeming social values. Both were German-speaking Jews with similar backgrounds and names. ''
The former was awarded the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film at the Cannes Film Festival, and the latter also won him the BAFTA Award for Best Film. paysha was a card game. "I've been here for more than half a century," he said in 1986 when he received the American Film Institute award, "and I've watched Hollywood vacillate between despair and fear. dance, to learn about sex." ---------------------------
Wilder, a young screenwriter struggling to make a name amid the bohemian decadence of pre-War Berlin, heard a tap on his window. He collaborated with several other novices (Fred Zinnemann and Robert Siodmak) on the 1930 film People on Sunday. He was proud of pushing the boundaries of good taste, but he lived to see his efforts eclipsed as the old Production Code collapsed and Hollywood's list of onscreen do's and don'ts vanished. [9] 135 min Recently released in paperback, Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna explores the early work of the award-winning writer and director, whose keen. 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. why she did this or did that How could she be so wonderful and so
"The glamour of being a director is over," he said in 2000. 13 on its "100 Greatest Film Directors Ever" list. Embracing a New Country
They had thought their son would assume the business upon . 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. Despite his conservative directorial style, his subject matter often pushed the boundaries of mainstream entertainment. something that suggests to the woman that he is not a fly-by-night. A. L. Diamond, who would be the co-writer for his last 12 films, including ''Some Like It Hot;'' ''One, Two, Three'' (1961), a frenetic farce with James Cagney as a Coca-Cola salesman in cold war Berlin; and ''The Fortune Cookie'' (1966), in which Mr. Wilder turned his biting wit on a shady lawyer (Walter Matthau) planning an insurance fraud. Wilder's 12 Academy Award nominations for screenwriting were a record until 1997 when Woody Allen received a 13th nomination for Deconstructing Harry. It's hard not to
He was 95. Brackett described their collaboration process: "The thing to do was suggest an idea, have it torn apart and despised. | Peachy
''I don't like the audience to be aware of camera tricks,'' he told one interviewer. Another pungent example of Wilder's dark streak was "Ace in the Hole" (1951), with Kirk Douglas playing a reporter who delays the release of a man trapped in a cave. 93). Wilder was married twice--in 1936 to Judith Coppicus Iribe, with whom he had a daughter, Victoria (and a son; Vincent)
received the Clarence Derwent Award. university for students to study his development as a writer. Wilder and Bracketts next project, Five Graves to Cairo (1943), was a suspenseful tale of wartime espionage. 38) and The Apartment (no. [16] Wilder's first significant success was Ninotchka, a collaboration with fellow German immigrant Ernst Lubitsch. I always
I said, 'It was not you we were talking about, but my friend's
After an early career as a journalist in Vienna and then Berlin, Wilder entered the burgeoning Weimar film industry in 1929, first . 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. 14 Sep 1945
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[4], Samuel Wilder (Yiddish: Shmuel Vildr[5]) was born on June 22, 1906[6] to a family of Polish Jews in Sucha Beskidzka,[7] a small town which, at that time, belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Wilder is survived by his wife of 53 years, Audrey, and daughter Victoria. . Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Dr Friederich
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NEARLY 40 years ago, My French Whore was a film script. Wilder's films have tight plotting and memorable dialogue. The filmmaker shifted skillfully between the lives of roue{acute}s and murderers and those of delectable debutantes. He rebounded in 1953 with "Stalag 17," a comedy-drama starring Holden which earned more than $10 million in its first year and was the biggest-grossing picture he ever made for Paramount. Billy Wilder. Nobody expected a picture like it. "Relax, fellow picture makers. love. "My mother was very
to play for her. He was so successful at writing that he persuaded the top executives at Paramount Pictures in the early 1940s to let him direct his own scripts, an achievement then shared only by John Huston and Preston Sturges. "I have no villa in St. Tropez. DraftBoard: 160. T715
The film known as Death Mills, or Die Todesmhlen, was intended for German audiences to educate them about the atrocities committed by the Nazi regime. Everything's in the hands of the money people; they dictate what has to be done. think that his dependent mother is buried somewhere in this
When she died, about
"Yes, absolutely. He worried constantly about his mother. 120 min He was a natural in both areas. Today it is part of Poland. The White House (Broadway, 1964)
"I looked at it. "I knew she was very ill," says Wilder, feeling for words. Collaborators found him insulting, abusive, exhilarating, exasperating and exhausting. Wilder immediately realized his Jewish ancestry would cause problems, so he emigrated to Paris, then the US. Despite cataract surgery, he remained plagued by poor eyesight and rued in January 2000 that he had been unable to see a movie since mid-1998. "Oh, I
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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". me what's wrong I can't fix it. His career in Hollywood spanned five decades, and he is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Classic Hollywood cinema. Page Number:
Morris Silberman 6 born in Wisconsin
He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. City: Manhattan
In his private life, Mr. Wilder was abrasive and exuberant, with an impish face and an impertinent irascibility. At a celebrity preview, Stanwyck tearfully fell to her knees in front of Swanson and kissed the hem of her gown in tribute. "[24] It was followed by the romantic comedy Irma la Douce (1963) starring Lemmon and MacLaine. It follows an insurance clerk (Lemmon), who allows his coworkers to use his apartment to conduct extra-marital affairs until he meets an elevator woman (Shirley MacLaine). [37], Wilder died of pneumonia on March 27, 2002. powerfully, like they could tell you their life's biggest secret at
his mother's cardiologist knelt on the floor at the front door and
Wilder is an actor. According to ''Wilder Times,'' a biography by Kevin Lally, Mr. Wilder told his newspaper that he would be back in a few days with an article on the concert. Age:
Total of 16 Hollywood classics from legendary director Billy Wilder and American playwright and screenwriter Tennessee Williams. In 1949 he married the former Audrey Young, a singer and actress. 245 pages. bedroom." His study was interrupted when he was drafted into
it would help his acting. Was the voice in a 1960s Alka-Seltzer commercial. Even critics who later accused Mr. Wilder of compromising the acidity of his films with sugar found no fault with the hardness of ''Double Indemnity.'' California (Before 1951 )
before it's too late." But of all Wilder's films, perhaps the most revered by Hollywood itself was the 1950 dark satire "Sunset Boulevard," a dark featuring Gloria Swanson as an aging silent-screen star whose fantasies of her former fame and beauty are aroused by a cynical young writer (William Holden). Once a subject was chosen, he would begin to visualize in terms of specific artists. indeed have loved her enormously to feel that way. hotel suite. Port of Arrival:
A hypochondriac, he paced nervously when he worked, waving one of his collection of walking sticks that he carried because of a chronic bad back. I had an idea for a film, a
He left law school in Vienna to become a reporter there and in Berlin, and by the late 1920s, he started writing for the German cinema. Port of Departure:
act, no longer needs attention. ''But anybody who had listened to the speeches knew Hitler would want Austria and the Sudeten part of Czechoslovakia. Premiere Magazine placed another Wilder role on its list of The 100
"There are few filmmakers who don't crave being compared to him. Only John Huston and Wilder opposed. New York Herald Tribune critic Howard Barnes wrote that Wilder matured into "one of the really first-rate directors" with this film about an insurance agent who conspires with a woman to kill her husband. Wilder wasn't cut out to be a disciplinarian. The doctor said, 'If we operate she isn't going
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"If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.". the actress Gilda Radner, who was fighting the ovarian cancer that
In a few days it would be apt to turn up, slightly changed, as Wilder's idea. Poland
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