| [citation needed], He directed the comedy film Avanti!, which follows a businessman (Lemmon) attempting to retrieve the body of his deceased father from Italy. Wilder received twenty-one nominations at the Academy Awards, winning six. recognised himself. He talked the authorities into a visa; later he wrote about those terrifying days in Mexicali in his script for ''Hold Back the Dawn'' (1941), which won him the third of his 12 Oscar nominations as a writer, a record until Woody Allen received his 13th nomination for ''Deconstructing Harry'' (1997). He sold a second collection in 1993 through his long-time friend's Louis Stern Gallery in Beverly Hills. He won two for writing and directing "The Lost Weekend" in 1945, one for writing "Sunset Boulevard" in 1950, and three for producing, writing and directing "The Apartment" in 1960. pulled the eight-year-old Wilder towards him, when he was so close he
They gradually become attracted to each other. However, Wilder later admitted
29 and The Apartment to No. Once I got adjusted to that way of working, our lives were simpler. March 28, 2002, By MYRNA OLIVER, L.A. Times Staff Writer
Comedy, Drama, Romance, Approved Auction is for 2 complete boxed sets in like new condition. Vincent Canby, the longtime chief film critic of The New York Times, once wrote: ''Wilder is often called cynical, mostly, I think, because his movies seldom offer us helpful hints to better lives. Initial attempts by the liquor lobby and some Paramount executives to scuttle the project were unsuccessful, but the film was given a happier ending than that in the book. isn't particularly observant. Arrival Date:
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In 1936, Paramount hired Wilder and teamed him with Brackett, a novelist and former New Yorker drama critic. The destruction caused by World War II left a profound gash in the psyche of citizens belonging to both the Axis and Allied nations. Balbina Baldinger was born in Lodz in 1867 to Wolf and Reizl. There is something about the way he says he was very lonely in Paris. Along with Woody Allen and the Marx Brothers, he leads the list of films on the American Film Institute's list of 100 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. morning the patients would gather to watch television. In 1929, Paul Kohner, who represented Universal Studios in Berlin, and Joe Pasternak, a future MGM producer, gave Mr. Wilder the chance to write a script under his own name. In Love With Words
The first strikingly potent exhibition of his filmmaking prowess came in 1944, when he paired with Raymond Chandler to adapt the James M. Cain novella "Double Indemnity." Wilder and Bracketts next project, Five Graves to Cairo (1943), was a suspenseful tale of wartime espionage. How did Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder get along? 18 Dec 1935
I felt I needed a liberation from responsibility." ''Pam-Pam'' was a musical about a gang of counterfeiters who masquerade as theatrical producers. says. The Frisco Kid (1979)
[21] In 2012, the British Film Institute decennial Sight and Sound poll of the world's film critics rated it as the 43rd best movie ever made, and the second-highest-ranking comedy.[22]. 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. But then he met Karen Webb, a worker with
wife does in My French Whore. 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. I was very
Wilder earned the Oscars for Best Director and Best Screenplay and Milland won Best Actor. tag, Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950) Es Lo Cotidiano | Las redes sociales son el peridico | Portal periodstico desde el Bajo mexicano, con base en Len, Guanajuato, Mxico dominated his early life. Birth Date: 15 Mar 1878
He is responsible for two of the film noir era's most definitive films in Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard. Lally felt that the mature-themed films Wilder admired in the late 1960s and early 1970s were more explicit sexually and verbally than suited a man who was a disciple of such subtle, continental directors as Lubitsch. Race: White
In total, he directed fourteen different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity, Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend, William Holden in Sunset Boulevard and Stalag 17, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim and Nancy Olson in Sunset Boulevard, Robert Strauss in Stalag 17, Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina, Charles Laughton in Witness for the Prosecution, Elsa Lanchester in Witness for the Prosecution, Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot and The Apartment, Jack Kruschen in The Apartment, Shirley MacLaine in The Apartment and Irma la Douce and Walter Matthau in The Fortune Cookie. Arguably Wilders most personal work during this period was Leisens Hold Back the Dawn (1941), a compelling drama about a suave European refugee (played by Charles Boyer) stranded in Mexico who uses his wiles to entice an American schoolteacher (Olivia de Havilland) into marriage so that he can gain entry into the United States. His mother, grandmother and stepfather stayed. He was 95. He received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1988, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1990 and the National Medal of Arts in 1993. What sparked his story all those years ago? For decades, he instructed his collaborators--first Charles Brackett and later I.A.L. Imagine this. Wilder received the American Film Institute Life Achievement Award in 1986. Call it bulimia if you want or curiosity or passion. In early 2007 Wilder published his first novel, set during
From 1929 to 1933 he produced twelve German films. In 1949 he married the former Audrey Young, a singer and actress. really had time to practise, but she said, 'Just play me something.' It sounds terribly
Poland
Maybe, since she had already been rejected by one father, she was
Virtually no writer other than Mr. Wilder could scale the language barrier. She met Wilder in 1944 on the Paramount Studios set of The Lost Weekend,. World War I, entitled My French Whore. The studio expected that he would make an arty film and fail. And ''Witness for the Prosecution'' (1957), based on an Agatha Christie play, was a powerfully effective courtroom thriller. The Little Prince (1974)
Yet no other major filmmaker slipped so easily into so many genres. He worried constantly about his mother. His father manufactured miniature beer and whiskey bottles.) | "Most of the refugees had a secret hope: 'Hitler will be defeated and I will go back home,' " said Wilder, who became a U.S. citizen in 1939. Hearing the raging boyfriend in the next room declare that he would slit the throat of any man he caught with Lulu, Galitzenstein hefted the script in his hand and said: "I'll buy it. "It's what happens to the people that matters. Stir Crazy (1980)
understanding more about cancer, I wasn't shocked. 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. The Producers (1968)
During this time he also worked as the voice of "Letterman" on the
female friend. 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. "I said to myself, 'That fellow's crazy, but not
This includes Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Instagram, and any other profiles associated with Victoria A. Wilder and Maidens Circle corporation. By the early '90s, Wilder had amassed many plastic-artistic constructions, many of which were made in collaboration with artist Bruce Houston. "I just buy nice things and sometimes swap them for better ones. What an evening it would be. ''If you can do it with style, if you can entertain them for two hours and have them talk about the picture for 15 minutes after they leave, I'm satisfied.'' Prior to WWII he lived in Lodz, Poland. The rest of the book is so emotionally
Directed by Robert Siodmak from an idea by his younger brother, Curt, the movie, with its unusual neo-Realist style, was a major avant-garde success. T715_5742
angry at him leaving? Samuel Wilder, whose childhood nickname "Billie" was Americanized to "Billy," was born in a region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that is now Poland. 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. Name: William Silberman, Home in 1920: Milwaukee Ward 10, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
He counseled one actor "You have Van Gogh's ear for music," advised Walter Matthau that "We're on the track of something absolutely mediocre," and wooed his wife by telling her, "I'd worship the ground you walk on if you lived in a better neighborhood." It was the sort of antihero role that a half dozen male stars rejected and the kind of morally ambiguous subject that Hollywood's production code considered unsuitable for a movie in 1944, and it won Mr. Wilder the first of eight Oscar nominations as a director. Times film critic Kenneth Turan, Times staff writer Susan King and Times art writer Suzanne Muchnic contributed to this report. 41
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I saw her face drop. It's hard not to
didn't influence him. McKinney's A Blade So Black dance, to learn about sex." Wilder said he auctioned some of those paintings to make space on the walls of his apartment for other pieces in his vast collection and for pieces he wanted to buy. It feels like a good story." 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. 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 . American
Billy Wilder Austrian-American director Birthday: June 22, 1906 Birthplace: Sucha, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Sucha Beskidzka, Poland) Death Date: March 27, 2002 Age at death: 95 years old Sign: Cancer About Billy Wilder Billy Wilder was an award-winning American filmmaker who was very popular during the 1940s. remained active in promoting cancer awareness and treatment and has
She accompanies an aspiring screenwriter (William Holden), who becomes her gigolo partner. Wilder, a young screenwriter struggling to make a name amid the bohemian decadence of pre-War Berlin, heard a tap on his window. | I don't think that was the case, but I
reasons," he continues. To advance his career Wilder decided to move to Berlin, Germany
While the book was popular with the reading public, it had been considered unfilmable under the Hays Code because adultery was central to the plot. Collaborators found him insulting, abusive, exhilarating, exasperating and exhausting. his mother's cardiologist knelt on the floor at the front door and
got weaker and was suffering. CATHERINE DEVENEY. Page Number:
We never even made love," he adds
Despite his conservative directorial style, his subject matter often pushed the boundaries of mainstream entertainment. He won twice for The Lost Weekend and for Sunset Boulevard, both adapted from novels by Billy Wilder's brother Raymond, who died before he could see his brother's . I used to say, 'If you can't tell
Richard Pryor, making them the most prolific inter-racial comedy
overheard the word 'fuck' and asked what it meant, she washed out his
sign up during the Second World War and gets posted to France. "Besides, you know the cliche about being possessed by possessions," he said. [11][12], After writing crime and sports stories as a stringer for local newspapers, he was eventually offered a regular job at a Berlin tabloid. I said I never
For much of that era, directors were virtually unknown to the general filmgoing public. It was also a typical Wilder device to start a film with voice-over narration. photo by Joe Coomber
She could do anything, get by
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. Furthermore, Max Wilder moved to Krakw to manage a hotel before moving to Vienna. Years later in Hollywood, he would describe it as being "Half an hour from Vienna. Victoria had 4 siblings: Eliza A. "Relax, fellow picture makers. [41] In 2007, Total Film magazine ranked Wilder at No. emotion than by intellect. Male
Mother's Birth Place: Russia
He had been honored by the Cannes International Film Festival in 1979; at the start of the festival in 1945, ''The Lost Weekend'' had won the top prize, the Palme d'Or. Mr. Wilder was a difficult partner. Over the next 12 years, they wrote 13 screenplays and become the most successful screenwriting team of the 1940's. In 1937 Paramount assigned him to work with former New Yorker theatre critic Charles Brackett. (1972). After the Army he got a scholarship to the HB studio, supporting
Film historian David A. Cook cites this movie for being on the cusp of the social consciousness drama of the late 1940s, which tackled formerly taboo moral issues and often shunned Hollywood sets in favor of location shooting. The antihero (Kirk Douglas) is a reporter who uses a man trapped in a cave to create headlines, in the process causing the man's death. Before achieving success as a writer, he was a taxi dancer in Berlin. By the late 1930s, he and Brackett had written two of the best sophisticated comedies of that era: Mitchell Leisen's "Midnight" and Lubitsch's "Ninotchka" with Greta Garbo. ''But anybody who had listened to the speeches knew Hitler would want Austria and the Sudeten part of Czechoslovakia. Billy Wilder: Interviews follows the filmmaking career . This film marked the first on-screen pairing of Lemmon and Matthau. Wilder wooed his second wife, former starlet Audrey Young, with a line that could have been from one of his films: "I'd worship the ground you walk on, if you lived in a better neighborhood.". Billy Wilder was born as Samuel Wilder to Max and Eugenia Wilder. Line:
He collaborated closely with Steven Spielberg on the script for Schindler's List (1993), and was one of several directors considered to direct it (Roman Polanski and Martin Scorsese both turned down the project). One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Broadway, 1963)
The film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards; together Wilder and Brackett won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Another shoestring production, it was about a band of young car thieves. "In Hollywood," wrote critic Pauline Kael, "it is now common to hear Billy Wilder called the world's greatest movie director." It was Jack Lemmon, not their co-star Tony Curtis. want them. Now he sees guilt as a wasted, selfish emotion. Prior to WWII she lived in Lodz, Poland. Although he spoke no English when he arrived in Hollywood, Wilder was a fast learner and thanks to contacts such as Peter Lorre (with whom he shared an apartment), he was able to break into American films. Gene Wilder at the TCM Movie Database
Maria Baldinger was born in Wroclawek in 1893 to Khaim and Helena. Born in the then Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1906, Wilder was one of many talented film-makers and executives who fled to Hollywood in the 1930s. Samuel Wilder
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. His pictures in the early 1940s -- including the drama "Hold Back the Dawn," with Charles Boyer as a desperate ballroom gigolo, and the screwball comedy "Ball of Fire" -- were so well received that Paramount, where he was under contract, allowed him to direct an original script. His mother, who was in love with all things American, nicknamed him Billie in honor of the Buffalo Bill Wild West show. 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. bit like Wilder. But he is also mischievous. NEARLY 40 years ago, My French Whore was a film script. Wilder received various honors over his distinguished career between the late 1980s and 1990s. Birth Location Other:
Comedy, Crime, Drama. Another You (1991)
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[27][28], Wilder's directorial choices reflected his belief in the primacy of writing. He won both the Academy Award for Best Director and the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for both The Lost Weekend (1945) and The Apartment (1960). California Birth Index; Name: Victoria Wilder
He was also out of time. She once said to him, "Hit me, for God's sake, hit me
and beg forgiveness for he knew not what. Wilder directed the Cold War political farce film One, Two, Three (1961), starring James Cagney, which won critical praise with Variety writing, "Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three is a fast-paced, high-pitched, hard-hitting, lighthearted farce crammed with topical gags and spiced with satirical overtones. Estimated birth year:
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When Wilder asked his
Lucian Baldinger was born in Lodz in 1925 to Mikhael and Miriam. In 1950, Wilder co-wrote and directed the cynical dark noir comedy film Sunset Boulevard. Mr. Wilder married twice. Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Dr Friederich
''I don't like the audience to be aware of camera tricks,'' he told one interviewer. 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. When friends tried to trick him into attending a Los Angeles Conservancy showing of his "Double Indemnity" at its Last Seats on Broadway summer series in historic theaters, Wilder refused, commenting: "I don't want to see all those dead people." Wilder was nominated in 1966 for his screenplay for the biting comedy "The Fortune Cookie," for which Walter Matthau won a best supporting actor Oscar as a crooked lawyer. laugh." That would add to his reputation for cynicism, but. Able to Write: Yes
Let's pretend we are what we really are. | Wilder directed Marilyn Monroe in two films, The Seven Year Itch (1955) and Some Like It Hot (1959). unpleasant to work with. The journalist hopes he can make a name for himself writing about the story of survival. declined; the role went to Gene Hackman. They divorced in 1946. After arriving in Hollywood in 1933, Wilder continued working as a screenwriter. In one of his early German films, ''Ihre Hoheit Befiehlt'' (''Her Highness's Command''), a Bavarian princess disguises herself as a manicurist while the chief of the palace guard pretends to work in a delicatessen. Wilder was married twice--in 1936 to Judith Coppicus Iribe, with whom he had a daughter, Victoria (and a son; Vincent)
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