Mr. Wilder married twice. The film earned critical acclaim, after it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and competed in the main competition, where it received the Festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or, and four Academy Awards including for Best Picture. His career started with the theater in various off-Broadway His belief was that no matter how talented the actor, none were without limitations and the result would be better if you bent the script to their personality rather than force a performance beyond their limitations. Most of Wilder's films since the mid-1960s were not successful, popularly or critically: from "Kiss Me, Stupid" (1964), with Dean Martin as a sex-starved singer, to "Buddy Buddy," about the friendship of a hit man and a suicidal television censor. 's in postwar Berlin, were too dark for Mr. Brackett. photo by Joe Coomber, http://www.dga.org/news/v27_2/images/dganewsjuly02/news_wilder13_full.html, Above, left to right: Architect Michael Maltzan, Hammer director Ann Philbin, film director Curtis Hanson, Audrey Wilder, and UCLA Film and Television Archive director Tim Kittleson Developing an interest in film, he began working as a screenwriter. 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. He enjoyed professional sports, chess, bridge and gin rummy, classical music and gourmet cooking but hated and feared flying. 12), Some Like It Hot (no. Though his last film was made in 1981, Billy Wilder was still turning up to work at his Hollywood office well into his 80s. Wilder coaxed a very effective performance out of Monroe in Some Like It Hot. films. Wilder had consistent smashes in the 1950s, with the cynical POW drama "Stalag 17"; "The Seven Year Itch," with Tom Ewell as an average married man taunted by the capricious Monroe; and the twisty "Witness for the Prosecution," which author Agatha Christie regarded as the best interpretation of her work. He is responsible for two of the film noir era's most definitive films in Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Was the voice in a 1960s Alka-Seltzer commercial. During Wilder's 10-month stay in France, he wrote and co-directed one film, "Mauvaise Graine" ("Bad Seed,") about young auto thieves. She "Gilda's Disease" for which he shared personal experiences of Radner's I say, "A hint," he repeats. But what was the connection? Able to read: Yes (1972) It was ultimately Wilder who told Spielberg he should direct it. angry. After ''People on Sunday'' (1930), Mr. Wilder and Robert Siodmak were hired by UFA, the top movie studio in Germany. 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. As a teenager, he Wilder became well known for owning one of the finest and most extensive art collections in Hollywood, mainly collecting modern art. Baldinger Balbina "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. In 1937 Paramount assigned him to work with former New Yorker theatre critic Charles Brackett. Mother's Maiden Name: Coppicus A major paper in Berlin hired him away in 1926 to cover the crime beat, experience that would serve him well in his subsequent career. In the late 1970s and 1980s he appeared in a number of movies with so ill, I probably would have been. struggle with ovarian cancer. ''Some Like It Hot'' (1959), with Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis as hapless musicians who escape gangsters by dressing as women, endures as a great American farce, while ''Sabrina'' (1954) sparkles as a sophisticated romantic comedy in which a chauffeur's daughter (Audrey Hepburn) is wooed by a captain of industry (Humphrey Bogart) and his playboy brother (Holden). The Screen Directors Guild had a vote by show of hands. Search Ship Database: Samuel Wilder was born June 22, 1906 in the town of Sucha, in a section of Poland that was then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Name: Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder were teamed by Paramount in 1936. 22, Double Indemnity to No. SSN: Billy Wilder was held up to us as a preeminent director of Hollywood's Golden Age, helping to shape the art form's evolution in the decades following World War 2. 80. | James M. Cains 1936 novella, on which the film is based, had been deemed too controversial for Hollywoods Production Code at the time of its publication, but by 1944 standards had relaxed enough to allow depictions of the decidedly adult scenario it offered, and the adaptation by Wilder and novelist Raymond Chandler was masterful. After that, Wilder directed all his pictures. [3] As of 2019[update], seven of his films are preserved in the United States National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". Paramount shelved the film indefinitely. It's not quite the classic as . Gender: Male Religion: Jewish Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Film Director, Screenwriter. What an evening it would be. Billy Wilder hospital many times, but the last time was just before I was drafted Silence. Poland the army. In 1924, Wilder spent three months in the University of Vienna's pre-law program, but dropped out to become a reporter for the newspaper Die Stunde, writing personality profiles and crime and sports stories. Two years later, Wilder adapted from Charles R. Jackson's novel The Lost Weekend into a film of the same name. For several months he worked as a professional dance partner to rich ladies at the Hotel Eden and then turned the experience into a newspaper series that gave him brief notoriety. 29 to play for her. 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. "Very affectionate, very sweet, Today, lets talk about my latest read, Stitches, from prolific author Sylvester Barzey. T715 childhood. The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975) (also could see the sweat drip on the doctor's fat cheeks, when he heard the screenplay, but the story was very good," he says. Find Billy Wilder's phone number, address, and email on Spokeo, the leading online directory for contact information. he told her. Wilder received six Academy Awards and was nominated for the Oscar 21 times for the nearly 50 U.S. films he made from the mid-1930s to the early 1980s. And the second thing he said was, 'Try to make her laugh.' Name: William Silberman, Home in 1920: Milwaukee Ward 10, Milwaukee, Wisconsin The Frisco Kid (1979) Maurice Zolotow, in the 1977 biography ''Billy Wilder in Hollywood,'' wrote that the usually dignified Mr. Brackett often hurled the nearest objects at his partner, who ducked them. Only John Huston and Wilder opposed. "She had opened my letter," he recalls. 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. This was home. Wilder, his sister and They were married on June 30, 1949. But he also had a chance to be a co-director, in ''Mauvaise Graine'' (''Bad Seed''). Stir Crazy (1980) He lasted three months. But ''Kiss Me, Stupid'' (1964), a bawdy sex farce with Dean Martin and Kim Novak, seemed to go over that edge; it failed at the box office and was condemned as an occasion of sin by the Roman Catholic Church's Legion of Decency. He then moved to Hollywood in 1933, and had a major hit when he, Charles Brackett and Walter Reisch wrote the screenplay for the Academy Award-nominated film Ninotchka (1939). . ''The Lost Weekend'' (1945), which took the Oscar for best picture and also won Mr. Wilder Academy Awards for director and co-author of the script, is still the most harrowing movie made about an alcoholic. His mother and step-father died at Auschwitz concentration camp ( Yad Vashem reports say Plaszow, Poland and Nowy Targ, Poland). After "Double Indemnity" cemented his reputation, Wilder read and immediately wanted to adapt Charles R. Jackson's best-selling novel "The Lost Weekend," which chronicles the depths to which an alcoholic sinks. Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity, (Jerome "Jerry" Silberman in Milwaukee, Moviegoers like a movie in which they can recognize a little of themselves.". Queen Mary On March 1, 2005, Wilder released his highly-personal memoir Kiss Me I sensed that it was best to go as far as possible. To turn Diamond from the late 1950s until his last film, "Buddy Buddy" (1981). I used to say, 'If you can't tell At 18 he found himself a job on a tabloid that put a premium on punchy reporting and celebrity interviews. Now he sees guilt as a wasted, selfish emotion. Humphrey Bogart shed his tough-guy image to give one of his warmest performances in Sabrina. His is a tough-minded romanticism and elegance; the lack of sentimentality has left him forever relevant as an artist," wrote director Cameron Crowe in his 1999 book "Conversations with Billy Wilder." . "I've reconciled my feelings. Were they close while away from the Paramount lot? He wrote or. On September 8, 1991, Wilder married Karen Webb (nee Boyer), whom he Diamond, who, like Wilder himself, was an emigrant to America from eastern Europe (in Diamond's case, Romania). father where he was from, he used to say, "I was born between Minsk Smart, impudent and undisciplined, he finished high school at the Realgymnasium Juranek for problem students and then, obeying his mother's wishes, entered the University of Vienna as a law student. Furthermore, this genre of Strassenfilm ("street film") paved way to the birth of Italian neorealism and the French New Wave. Baldinger Lucian 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 His career in Hollywood spanned five decades, and he is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Classic Hollywood cinema. Call it bulimia if you want or curiosity or passion. romantic story, and I thought, 'When I go back to New York I am going [9] After the family moved to Vienna, Wilder became a journalist, instead of attending the University of Vienna. In love with words, he sprinkled sugar laced with acid into movies whose heroes were often adulterers and gigolos. the two were not as close as people believed. In 1936, Paramount hired Wilder and teamed him with Brackett, a novelist and former New Yorker drama critic. Balbina Baldinger was born in Lodz in 1867 to Wolf and Reizl. | His direction of James M. Cain's "Double Indemnity" (co-written with Raymond Chandler) in 1944 resulted in a film noir classic, and he startled audiences in 1950 when his "Sunset Boulevard," perhaps Hollywood's definitive look at itself, turned out to be narrated by a corpse. "I called, I wrote. The look of a movie was less important to him than its language. 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). Ship Name: You did? Julia Silberman 8/12 born in Wisconsin, Name: Hyman Silberman Catch our last episode of 2022 on Yule RIGHT, I'm always so honored and thankful to be a part of, On this lovely Freya's Day, I am honoring Dionysus, Tomorrow!!! "[17] "Wilder followed Ninotchka with a series of box office hits in 1942, including Hold Back the Dawn, Ball of Fire, and his directorial debut film The Major and the Minor. 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. hotel suite. Eugenia Wildar was born in Nowy Targ in 1885 to Adolf and Balbina. So I wouldn't get angry to write a screenplay for myself to act in.' Trailer Credit . Once I got adjusted to that way of working, our lives were simpler. ''Sabrina'' was remade in 1995 and failed with critics and audiences. Updates? of The 100 Greatest Performances: And they were When this morally ambiguous film was named the best picture of 1960, Mr. Wilder became the first person to win three Oscars in a single night -- as director, producer and co-author of the screenplay. It's as red as the Daily Worker and just as sore." thought, 'When I get out of the army, I'm going to get help.'". Figure Measurements & Body Stats: Billy Wilder stands tall 44-33-19 Inch and Weight 61.0 KG. He avoided the cafes and living rooms where refugees met to drink coffee and speak German. 118 So I was intrigued to read how he described In a few days it would be apt to turn up, slightly changed, as Wilder's idea. . By ALJEAN HARMETZ Frisco Kid. curls. "Is this what you think of me?" Port of Departure: 6. Crazy, unruly suffering from overwhelming but non-specific guilt, and when telling Eugenia Wildar was born in Nowy Targ in 1885 to Adolf and Balbina. 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. Virtually no writer other than Mr. Wilder could scale the language barrier. "[34][35] Wilder's artistic ambitions led him to create a series of works of his own. Yet the ever-dapper Wilder continued to go to his Beverly Hills office almost daily well into his 90s, reading and keeping tabs on both the worlds of film and the world of art, where he was an extremely knowledgeable collector. "I have never been happier in His father manufactured miniature beer and whiskey bottles.) Premiere Magazine placed another Wilder role on its list of The 100 unpleasant to work with. Billy Wilder, 95, the maverick director-writer-producer who turned his trenchant scripts into some of the most memorable of all Hollywood films, died Wednesday at his home in Beverly Hills,. Wilder received twenty-one nominations at the Academy Awards, winning six. I 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. The result, ''Der Teufelsreporter'' (''The Demon Reporter''), was an unmemorable movie about a daredevil reporter. indeed have loved her enormously to feel that way. Wilder holds a significant place in the history of Hollywood censorship for expanding the range of acceptable subject matter. 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. Such an homage was a far cry from its initial release, when Wilder's peers were greatly distressed about his depiction of Hollywood. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. Jedn se o estinsobnho dritele ceny Americk filmov akademie Oscar . The actor says that he no longer needs to Male I had the feeling he The He had an inventive talent for making unpleasant situations hilarious, and he had the courage to deal with traditionally taboo subjects. "Now that Wilder characters can say the 'F' word at will, the thrill of the battle is gone," Lally wrote in his 1996 biography. probably why I didn't go on about it. While he worked with He first considered, and rejected, a project to star Laurel and Hardy. At a time when Hollywood liked to play drunkenness for laughs, Wilder created in "The Lost Weekend" (1945) a harrowing portrait of a life ruined by addiction. realised what was going on with my mother, the demons started to fade He immediately recognized his naked guest as a man known only as Galitzenstein, the president of Maxim Films, and, introducing himself as a screenwriter, offered him a script to read. "There was nothing I could do about it. Follow More from Medium Simon Dillon in Fanfare My Ten Favourite Westerns Larrylambert in The Haven Things You Didn't Know About Don. He has finally found it, exorcised the demons. The film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards; together Wilder and Brackett won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Often, though, those happy endings were ambiguous -- as when the alcoholic writer refuses a drink, at least for the moment, in ''The Lost Weekend.'' Many critics consider "Double Indemnity" in 1944 to be the first of Wilder's major works. Wilder directed The Front Page based on a Broadway play of the same name. a story.'" 39 I am his audience and sit completely T715 The film remained to be one of the three films, winning both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d' Or, alongside Marty and Parasite. and he likes where he has ended up. But there is something substantial about his performance, Si el cine consigue que un individuo olvide por dos segundos que ha aparcado mal el coche, no ha pagado la factura del gas o ha tenido una discusin con su jefe, entonces, el cine ha conseguido su objetivo. The filmmaker shifted skillfully between the lives of roue{acute}s and murderers and those of delectable debutantes. Fluid Identities ", But there was always a connection missing. Film: The Hollywood giant's use of the language on and off screen became legendary for its pithiness and its sharp wit. Originally planning to become a lawyer, Billy Wilder abandoned that career in favor of working as a reporter for a Viennese newspaper, using this experience to move to Berlin, where he worked for the city's largest tabloid. New York himself, at first, with unemployment insurance and some savings, and Wilder, Austrian-born, but in the US since . Both were German-speaking Jews with similar backgrounds and names. Wilder received two Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Director and Best Screenplay, and a Writers Guild of America Award nomination. He saw mobs, a ruined currency and shattered families. It follows an alcoholic writer (Ray Milland) opposing the protestations of his girlfriend (Jane Wyman). Wilder and Bracketts next project, Five Graves to Cairo (1943), was a suspenseful tale of wartime espionage. In 1926, Wilder got a job in Berlin handling publicity for touring American bandleader Paul Whiteman. He smiles gently. later, this clearly still hurts. My French Whore, by Gene WIlder (11.99, Old Street Publishing), is [27][28], Wilder's directorial choices reflected his belief in the primacy of writing. Age: But isn't there a paradox about the women he has A ranking of the films directed by Billy Wilder that I have seen, presented in order of best to worst. "The picture maybe that has the fewest faults, obvious faults, would be 'The Apartment.' View contact information: phones, addresses, emails and networks. piercing, mesmerising blue. In addition to his wife of 51 years, survivors include a daughter, Victoria, from his earlier marriage to Judith Iribe; and a grandchild. Ranked as #38 -- Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Not Rated shows before making it on the Great White Way. She accompanies an aspiring screenwriter (William Holden), who becomes her gigolo partner. They did not have a say in the matter. with anything, and Mary Jo would never say no.". 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. troubled co-star's drug addiction made him very difficult and Harry Silberman 20 came to the country in 1912 novelties "I have no villa in St. Tropez. He was interested in doing a film with one of the classic slapstick comedy acts of the Hollywood Golden Age. "Well, it [38] A French newspaper, Le Monde, titled the front-page obituary: Billy Wilder is dead. It won Wilder Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. Will you ever dismissively, "Oh, Daddy," thinking he was joking. 130 min Webb was at the time a clinical recognised himself. Story is so furiously quick-witted that some of its wit gets snarled and smothered in overlap. A small man who was constantly in motion, he was as witty in person as on paper. In 1979 Wilder starred alongside Harrison Ford in the comedy The 551-05-1953 It's tough to make a deal." Not even a hint? apologised immediately afterwards.". Wilder received various honors over his distinguished career between the late 1980s and 1990s. In Ball of Fire, his burlesque queen 'Sugarpuss' points at her sore throat and complains "Pink? ." She had an Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) Due to the sheer breadth of cinematic history that needs to be covered in a semester, Wilder's innovations in chiaroscuro and moral ambiguity were duly, yet briefly, noted as we . "[32] In general, Wilder disliked formula and genre films. Wilder was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for the first two films and shared a nomination for Best Screenplay for the second. [citation needed] In all, they made four movies "I wanted to say [in 'The Apartment'] how corrupt we are, how money-mad we are. Moviegoers packed theaters there and in California and the film's success was sealed. 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. 91316Encino, Los Angeles, California, United States of America Victoria had 4 siblings: Eliza A. It's better to act from your heart than your head. by expressing what he really wants to say in an actor's language, the . " And it's very difficult to make a picture in Hollywood about Hollywood. State: New York A brilliant film, it was a box-office failure, and Mr. Wilder was careful never to be so downbeat again. 121 min See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989) (also writer) wanted to continue writing books. I laugh. Billy Wilder ( / waldr /; German: [vld]; born Samuel Wilder; June 22, 1906 - March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-American filmmaker. Mother's Maiden Name: Coppicus Still others were troubled by his tendency to pull the sting from the tail of his characters at the last moment, allowing for happy endings. Name an object and I collect it. Total of 16 Hollywood classics from legendary director Billy Wilder and American playwright and screenwriter Tennessee Williams. In 1993, art dealer Louis Stern, a longtime friend, helped organize an exhibition of Wilder's work at his Beverly Hills gallery. much, but I didn't want to marry them. doesn't matter. Adventure, Biography, Drama, PG-13 any minute, you hold your breath in the pregnant silence, waiting, 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. of the dramatic is impeccable. No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989). 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". 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. James Cagney, not usually known for comedy, was memorable in a high-octane comic role for Wilder's One, Two, Three. The cynicism, he said, ''is sort of disappointed romanticism at heart -- someone once described it as whipped cream that's gotten slightly curdled.'' In 1940, she was 0 years old and lived in Beverly Hills, California, with her father, mother, and sister. I have sadnesses. Line: 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. 113 min was lying in bed suffering. process and made it an emotional one. He received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1988, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1990 and the National Medal of Arts in 1993. and Pinsk." In April he was hospitalized for three weeks with a urinary infection. he perks up, becoming engrossed in conversation, passionate even. 125 min fencing. [14] After Adolf Hitler's rise to power, Wilder went to Paris, where he made his directorial debut film Mauvaise Graine (1934). Age: It ['Sunset'] really caught them unaware. Nobody is perfect, a reference to the last line of Some Like It Hot.[39]. detective Larry "Cash" Carter. Wilder said he turned to producing his films in the early 1950s to protect their controversial content. His six Oscars spanned the years of his greatest success. It was the first film pairing Jack Lemmon with Walter Matthau. Stein), Stage appearances Brackett described their collaboration process: "The thing to do was suggest an idea, have it torn apart and despised. sales novelties Wilder received the American Film Institute Life Achievement Award in 1986. But when Katie was in Wilder, a young screenwriter struggling to make a name amid the bohemian decadence of pre-War Berlin, heard a tap on his window. ", But he needed self-knowledge to take action. Wilder is credited with the English-language version. In 1926, jazz band leader Paul Whiteman was on tour in Vienna when he met and was interviewed by Wilder, a fan of Whiteman's band. ten months later, it was not a shock Well, it was a shock, but not Adam Bernstein has spent his career putting the "post" in The Washington Post, first as an obituary writer and then as editor. In the 1950s, Wilder directed and co-wrote a string of critically acclaimed films, including the Hollywood drama Sunset Boulevard (1950), for which he won his second screenplay Academy Award, Ace in the Hole (1951), Stalag 17 (1953) and Sabrina (1954). But I After an early career as a journalist in Vienna and then Berlin, Wilder entered the burgeoning Weimar film industry in 1929, first . Recalling his childhood in a big hotel, he remarked, ''I learned many things about human nature -- none of them favorable.'' Wilder's nephew told him Katie had wanted His words make me smile, are touching in the way that they language of 'let's pretend'. have failed to entice him. In ''Some Like It Hot,'' men must pretend to be women, and Tony Curtis, wearing women's clothing, shares a bunk with Marilyn Monroe. Better, he explains, Originally planning to become a lawyer, Billy Wilder abandoned that career in favor of working as a reporter for a Viennese newspaper, using this experience to move to Berlin, where he worked for the city's largest tabloid. He smiles. Mr. Wilder's combined nominations for writing, directing and producing total 21 (12 for writing, 8 for directing, and 1 for producing ''The Apartment.''). Comedy, Drama, Romance, Approved He always had to father's death did he discover that Pinsk really existed and pisha Mr. Wilder sent him a story idea that became his own ticket to Hollywood. her, but admits that he was frightened of being a father. In 1926, an interview with Paul Whiteman, the American bandleader, changed Mr. Wilder's life. In 1945, he said as an example of the bargains he found, he bought a George Grosz painting for a carton of cigarettes. 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. 1972 to 1977. Wilder was nominated for Academy Awards for best screenplay and director for the film, but Leo McCarey's "Going My Way" swept the 1944 awards. would have felt guilty feeling free, joyous, to be in ecstasy when she Champlain T715_7618 Billy Wilder: Charles Brackett's screenwriting partner for about a dozen years. After a year he dropped out to work as a sports reporter for a Vienna newspaper. His biting one-liners included this definition of an associate producer: ''the only guy who will associate with a producer.'' "For a few | 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. reasons," he continues. In 1959, Wilder reunited with Monroe in the United Artists released Prohibition-era farce film Some Like It Hot. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) bit like Wilder. and beg forgiveness for he knew not what. Blazing Saddles (1974) The article could be improved by integrating relevant items and "A lot of my friends had a fear of going into a country where they didn't speak the language, so they went to Vienna or Prague, which was very shortsighted. No Illusions About Hitler her, and I resented her. I was on the train to Paris . He protects himself During this time he also worked as the voice of "Letterman" on the In the last scene, Lemmon, in drag, pulls off his wig to show an amorous male millionaire why they can't be married. Louis B. Mayer, on the other hand, stormed out of the theater cursing Paramount and shouting: "We should horsewhip this Wilder, we should throw him out of this town, he has brought disgrace on the town that is feeding him!" wife does in My French Whore. "I'm not a born director," he told Crowe. Wilder, who had been in failing health for some time, died at 11 p.m. Wednesday of pneumonia at his home in Beverly Hills. Only after his Port of Departure: Wilder immediately realized his Jewish ancestry would cause problems, so he emigrated to Paris, then the US. Eugenia Wilder has described her young son as a "rambunctious kid" and has been inspired by the Buffalo Bill's Wild West Shows that she saw while living briefly in New York. The Woman in Red (1984) (also director and writer) GENE WILDER is talking so, so quietly, I can scarcely breathe. It opened to critical acclaim in New York. 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. How's it goin'? It's all done to astonish the bourgeois, to amaze the middle-class critic.'' I can't even apologise. This film marked the first on-screen pairing of Lemmon and Matthau. 245 pages. Wilder won three of his six Oscars for "The Apartment," as director, producer and co-writer. It's quirky, eccentric - a Page Number: awards. DraftBoard: 160. The temperamental, often warring pair wrote 14 consecutive hits, including the innovative "Ninotchka," "The Lost Weekend" and "Sunset Boulevard." The American Society of Newspaper Editors recognized Bernsteins ability to exhume the small details and anecdotes that get at the essence of the person. He joined The Post in 1999. protect his mother at the expense of himself. with his mother. Name: Vincent Wilder For two decades -- from the first movie he directed, ''The Major and the Minor'' (1942), to ''Irma La Douce'' (1963) -- Mr. Wilder usually managed to please audiences while creating films whose unsympathetic heroes and black humor were often thought to be at the far edge of what moviegoers would accept. His father was Max Wilder, who ran a railway cafe, and his mother was the former Eugenia Baldinger, whose family owned a resort hotel. Interview with Wilder on NPR's Fresh Air (March 16, 2005) In 1957, three films Wilder directed were released: biopic The Spirit of St. Louis, starring James Stewart as Charles Lindbergh, romantic comedy Love In The Afternoon--Wilder's first screenplay with I. I loved This series featured busts of the Egyptian queen wrapped la Christo, or splattered la Jackson Pollock, or sporting a Campbell's soup can in homage to Andy Warhol. The following year Wilder made "The Lost Weekend," which pioneered movies about social problems. "You don't quite and I didn't quite" he says drolly. He revisited the script and six Billy Wilder For years after his final film, "Buddy, Buddy," starring Lemmon and Matthau, failed at the box office in 1981, Wilder continued to write and contemplate making more movies. "We wind up showing him winning the Kentucky Derby.". photo by Joe Coomber Wilder would crave the attention that he felt he was denied in Biography: Billy Wilder. I want to leave it that way." his Russian immigrant father focused all their energy on her. ''People said Hitler was a big, loud, unpleasant joke,'' Mr. Wilder once told this reporter. 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. They parted in 1950. American;Polish (American) ''The opening wasn't logical,'' Mr. Wilder once said, ''but it was riveting. As a young man of boundless energy, chutzpah and zero educational ambition, the Austrian native and future film legend hustled into . 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. "I shared a room with Peter Lorre, and we lived on a can of soup a day." Wilder cried. 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. paysha was a card game. 18 Dec 1935 just a fly-by-night." [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]. Mary Jo, who was bringing up her daughter Katie alone. This critically acclaimed film was the final film Wilder collaborated with Brackett. Gradually a liking to Wilder and cast him in several films. Maybe, since she had already been rejected by one father, she was Billy was a teenager in the post-war years when Vienna faced the perilous new world. Her Body Measurements are 44-33-19 Inch. During the war he was in Warszawa, Poland. After the British are defeated at the battle of Tobruk, a survivor (Franchot Tone) assumes the identity of a dead waiter at a hotel swarming with German officers. He is 74 this year, and the famous blonde corkscrew curls are now thin He co-created the Committee for the First Amendment, of 500 Hollywood personalities and stars to support those professionals called upon to testify before the HUAC who had classified themselves as hostile with regard to the interrogations and the interrogators. Columbia offered a one-way ticket and $150 a week. Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis played musicians disguised as women to escape pursuit by a Chicago gang. But sometimes, she did destructive things and then [26] Wilder had hoped to make Schindler's List as his final film, saying "I wanted to do it as a kind of memorial to my mother and my grandmother and my stepfather," who had all been murdered in the Holocaust. 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. Death Place: Los Angeles His mother, Eugenia, who died in Auschwitz during World War II, had lived in the United States in her youth and nicknamed her second son "Billie" because of her fascination with the American frontier hero Buffalo Bill Cody. Other movies directed by Mr. Wilder include ''The Seven Year Itch'' (1955), with its famous moment of Monroe standing over a subway grate, a rush of air from a passing train blowing her dress; ''The Spirit of St. Louis'' (1957), with James Stewart as Charles Lindbergh; and a remake of ''The Front Page'' (1974), with the team of Lemmon and Matthau. ''A lot of my friends had a fear of going to a country where they didn't speak the language, so they went to Vienna or Prague,'' he continued. One of Hollywood's foremost emigre filmmakers, Wilder holds a key position in film history via films that represent a complex reflection of his European roots and American cultural influences. "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. didn't know what to do with that pain, and I thought, 'Write it, write A sweet man," he repeats wistfully. endured. It was nice. Admittedly, I had a few hurdles in getting this on, In October, the gods granted me the honor of atten, Follow me or I may eat you. [1] In 1960, Wilder co-wrote, directed and produced the critically acclaimed film The Apartment. Microfilm Roll: dance, to learn about sex." love. | That night, the family were going out to dinner, and when Wilder took After Gilda died, he had his own battle with Curtis's character courts a singer (Monroe), while Lemmon is wooed by Joe E. Brown setting up the film's final joke in which Lemmon reveals that his character is a man and Brown blandly replies "Well, nobody's perfect". When I was making pictures, we went to the front office, told them what we wanted to do, and then we did it." Able to Write: Yes Correction: March 31, 2002, Sunday An obituary of the director Billy Wilder on Friday misidentified the actor who shared a railway sleeping berth with Marilyn Monroe in Wilder's film ''Some Like It Hot.'' isn't particularly observant. Page Number: He was 95.. Billy Wilder and Galicia. death. Many of the German-speaking refugees from Hitler -- among them Fritz Lang, Peter Lorre, Otto Preminger and Douglas Sirk -- prospered in Hollywood, but they were actors, directors, producers and composers. 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. and unruly, spiralling crazily in every direction. The film was the fifth highest-grossing film of the year. (b. Sucha, Austria 1906 - d. West Los Angeles 2002) Born as Samuel Wilder. Director Billy Wilder, whose films were renowned for their wit, cynicism and satirical edge, died March 27 in Beverly Hills, California at the age of 95. 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. From his arrival in the United States, he wrote with a collaborator. studied drama at the University of Iowa, where he was a member of the When asked by the director of the traditional Passion play in the town of Oberammergau if a former Nazi, Anton Lang, could play Jesus, Mr. Wilder responded, ''Permission granted, but the nails have to be real.'' His six-month visitor's visa had almost expired. Whether creating comedies, dramas, thrillers or mysteries, the Austrian-born . I went out to make a commercial picture I wouldn't be ashamed of." Submitter's Last Name BALDINGER This is why it's essential that, although the rhythm of the plot may be predictable, the notes themselves often come as a surprise. They divorced in 1946. During the 1950s Wilder continued a string of hit films including Sabrina (1954), The Seven Year Itch (1955) and Some like it hot (1959). father, and Wilder was the substitute whipping boy. 1939) He retired in 1981. I always Poland Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. Yet no other major filmmaker slipped so easily into so many genres. Wilder received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director for the last film. in Harrods. In 1998 he collaborated on the book . "Whatever I made, $200 or $300 a week, I always put half or a third into a drawer for art purchases," he said during sale previews. Prior to WWII she lived in Lodz, Poland. Many of Wilder's films achieved both critical and public acclaim. Wilder directed and co-wrote three films in 1957, including The Spirit of St. Louis, Love in the Afternoon and Witness for the Prosecution. Born in Milwaukee, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, Wilder Then Wilder would say 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. "In Hollywood," wrote critic Pauline Kael, "it is now common to hear Billy Wilder called the world's greatest movie director." is an exhibited artist, a writer and actor, but modern film scripts During Wilders first years in Hollywood, when he spoke little English, he roomed with expatriate German actor Peter Lorre and accumulated credits on modest scripts such as Music in the Air (1934) and The Lottery Lover (1935) by collaborating with writers who could translate his contributions. I don't think that was the case, but I When I I did. He has more than 50 movies to his credit, with many undisputed classics among them. that he insisted on carrying her coffin, which is against Jewish Lucian perished in 1943 in Warszawa, Ghetto. Mother Courage and Her Children (Broadway, 1963) However, Wilder later admitted From 1929 he worked as a screenwriter for silent films in Berlin until the Nazis came to power and the Jewish Wilder left for America. soul". He is the co-founder of Gilda's Club, a support He has dark shading hair and dark black eyes.. I was worried about her death in his memoir Kiss Me Like a Stranger. Arrival Date: Theirs is the kingdom; ours is the power and the glory." Wackier, wierder, Wilder Furthermore, Max Wilder moved to Krakw to manage a hotel before moving to Vienna. So just answer "I tell about problems facing mankind, but I don't pretend to solve them," he once told an interviewer. Now he realises that he did. Birthplace: California He was a natural in both areas. A stem-cell transplant has [13] In 1932 Wilder collaborated with the writer and journalist Felix Salten on the screenplay for "Scampolo". Wilder was married to Saturday Night Live actress Gilda Radner from The film also won Holden his only Oscar, for best actor. 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. Estimated birth year: abt 1902 But he hated it because he was the only She knows it anyway. "I said to myself, 'That fellow's crazy, but not both of them, but Katie would ultimately divide them. http://www.dga.org/news/v27_2/images/dganewsjuly02/news_wilder13_full.html. I cut down on my ballooning in Bavaria, and I stayed away from junk bonds," he continued. Gender: Female He collaborated with several other novices (Fred Zinnemann and Robert Siodmak) on the 1930 film People on Sunday. The clich of Wilder as cynic and misanthrope is not to McBride's taste. And ehm He was 95. Born in a part of the Austrian Empire that is now Hungary, Wilder was a writer-director who fled the Nazis to become one of Hollywood's most celebrated directors. Roll: 1786852 Samuel Wilder, whose childhood nickname "Billie" was Americanized to "Billy," was born in a region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that is now Poland. "Relax, fellow picture makers. He later said the only project he pursued that he regretted not directing was "Schindler's List," as a tribute to his mother and grandmother. Billy Wilder has had a powerful creative influence on both the experimental and traditional film industries in America. She was a music teacher and married to Mikhael. He avoided, especially in the second half of his career, the exuberant cinematography of Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles because, in Wilder's opinion, shots that called attention to themselves would distract the audience from the story. 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. prostitute who isn't really a prostitute. It has been argued that Wilder's earlier careers as a police reporter and dance hall gigolo colored his often-acid depiction of humanity. Wilder looks down, MacMurray had become Hollywood's highest-paid actor portraying a decent, thoughtful character in light comedies, melodramas, and musicals; Wilder cast him as a womanizing schemer. In person, Wilder's verbal thrusts could be just as incisive as the dialogue he scripted. The doctor's words then. abt 1906 That first outing as director, on "The Major and the Minor" (1942), featured Ginger Rogers as a woman pretending to be a 12-year-old trying to board a train at half-fare and Ray Milland as an Army major who tries to help her. Once a subject was chosen, he would begin to visualize in terms of specific artists. ''Well, it hasn't been my decade.'' interviewer refused. Later, she gives the overbearing and unsmiling housemaid the name "Franco". As a man who was so often part of great teams (Wilder was a true collaborator and often . And ''Witness for the Prosecution'' (1957), based on an Agatha Christie play, was a powerfully effective courtroom thriller. "Things are always cooking in the back of my mind or in the back of a drawer," he said in 1988. New York, New York Raymond Chandler disliked him so much when they worked together on the screenplay for ''Double Indemnity'' that he tried to get him fired. wrote the screenplays for some of them, and now he has turned his hand "Dicen que no encajo en este mundo. off his uniform his mother saw his bruised body. By the time Wilder returned to the U.S., Paramount had decided to release the film. One day a young In other words, he loves women who say, 'Fly, you're free,' and In 1936 Paramount teamed him with Charles Brackett, the conservative, Harvard-educated son of a New York state senator. . If I hadn't had that experience when Gilda was 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. very gentle. Trivia However, their output as directors was quite different: Wyler preferred to direct epics and heavy dramas, while Wilder was noted for comedies and film noir type dramas. Only in his final years did he kick a four-pack-a-day smoking habit. Instead, he sees the demeaning ones.'' Gender: ", It was only after his mother died that the 23-year-old Wilder felt Lemmon says. he continued. I was always a one-woman man." "Oh, I loved her very much, and I knew she why she did this or did that How could she be so wonderful and so Wildar Eugenia Microfilm Serial: Eugenia perished in 1943 in Plaszow, Poland. Paris making a film and I was very lonely. 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. United States of America Billy Wilder, scriptwriter and director, born June 22, 1906; died March 27 2002. "I did the best I could at the time. But then he met Karen Webb, a worker with Girlfriend: Hedy Lamarr (actress, dated 1940s) But I've had a wonderful career, I've got Wilder directed Marilyn Monroe in two films, The Seven Year Itch (1955) and Some Like It Hot (1959). Another shoestring production, it was about a band of young car thieves. The casual blue shirt he wears is a lake of oceanic colour that His first marriage, to Judith Iribe, a painter, ended in divorce in 1947. 14), Double Indemnity (no. "I wish he had paid me more attention. number one." Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. English actress called Mary, ignored him sexually, like Paul Peachy's gentle feeling, always sweet to people", At 11, Wilder had watched his sister act in an amateur production. Arrival Date: mother.' Ironically, it was "Stalag 17," about a German prisoner-of-war camp, that caused Wilder to depart Paramount. Correction: April 19, 2002, Friday Because of an editing error, an obituary of the film director Billy Wilder on March 29 misidentified an actor who figured in an anecdote about casting the role of Jesus in a postwar German production of the Passion play when Mr. Wilder headed a United States Army program to bar former Nazis from the stage. Billy Wilder (/waldr/; German: [vld]; born Samuel Wilder; June 22, 1906 March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-American filmmaker. Of the blacklisted 'Hollywood Ten' he said, "Of the ten, two had talent, and the rest were just unfriendly. took me on holiday, just the two of us. His sense Indeed, Wilder helped pave the way for the time when directors became widely recognized as the primary "authors" of their films, regardless of whether they wrote the scripts. I felt I needed a liberation from responsibility." Cherbourg, France "If someone was Microfilm Roll: ''Sunset Boulevard'' -- like ''The Apartment'' and ''Ace in the Hole'' -- was an original screenplay, and Mr. Wilder daringly chose to have the movie narrated by a dead screenwriter who is first seen floating face down in the aging star's swimming pool. 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 . got weaker and was suffering. Year of Immigration: 1912 Naturalized in 1916 It sounds terribly something that suggests to the woman that he is not a fly-by-night. There is something about the way he says he was very lonely in Paris. Or purchase a subscription for unlimited access to real news you can count on. He opposed the Vietnam War and the war year.". 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). Wilder came to refer to his cynical 1951 drama "Ace in the Hole," starring Kirk Douglas as a ruthless reporter, as "the runt of my litter." She got more emotional as she Blazing Saddles. "She was in Hyde.'' 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. To advance his career Wilder decided to move to Berlin, Germany "Because I would be number two, and I want to be "I kind of starved for a little bit," he said. McKinney's A Blade So Black Above, left to right: Architect Michael Maltzan, Hammer director Ann Philbin, film director Curtis Hanson, Audrey Wilder, and UCLA Film and Television Archive director Tim Kittleson, Billy Wilder's mother and step-father died at Auschwitz concentration camp ( Yad Vashem reports say Plaszow, Poland and Nowy Targ, Poland). They had one daughter, Victoria. "That's good." He had also suffered from cancer. Even when Wilder was no longer wanted for new films, he and Hollywood continued their mutual love affair. Frances Obodal 18 servant (from German background). Isador Silberman 9 born in Wisconsin In 1951, Wilder directed Ace in the Hole (a.k.a. Embracing a New Country Mother's Birth Place: Russia Would the marriage last? Birth Location Other: His goal, he insisted in his usual sardonic way, was to have audiences stay awake. A. L. Diamond, who'd become his regular partner--featuring Gary Cooper, Maurice Chevalier and Audrey Hepburn, and courtroom drama Witness for the Prosecution, featuring Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton. The romantic comedy starred Greta Garbo (generally known as a tragic heroine in film melodramas), and was popularly and critically acclaimed. his father about the abuse, but not his mother. Born: Maria perished in 1943 in Warsaw, Poland. understanding more about cancer, I wasn't shocked. movie Mother Courage and Her Children featuring actress Anne Bancroft Wilder is sometimes confused with director William Wyler. It wasn't a good 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.'' He often bumped against studio bureaucracy unwilling to risk the condemnation of church groups, which had some authority over a film's content or even release. Birth County: Los Angeles For much of that era, directors were virtually unknown to the general filmgoing public. With ''Love in the Afternoon'' (1957), a May-December romance with Gary Cooper and Audrey Hepburn, he found his second major collaborator, I. A sad tale, I say. GeneWilder.net a Gene Wilder fansite Billy Wilder y el cine. "Besides, you know the cliche about being possessed by possessions," he said. In Paris he codirected Mauvaise Graine (1934) with Alexander Esway before continuing on to the United States, after a brief period in Mexico. Check resumes and CV, arrest records, publications, news, social media profiles, places of employment, public records, skilled experts and business records . Over the next 12 years, they wrote 13 screenplays and become the most successful screenwriting team of the 1940's. Always daring Hollywood censors' limits on content, Billy Wilder directed greats such as Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, Ginger Rogers, Marlene Dietrich, Kirk Douglas, Audrey Hepburn, and Gary Cooper. When her boyfriend suddenly appeared at their apartment house, Wilder agreed to hide the sometime-prostitute's client in his own room. Wilder (who was named Samuel but called Billy because of his mothers affinity for William [Buffalo Bill] Cody) was raised in Vienna and attended the University of Vienna as a prelaw student. Name: group to raise awareness of cancer. [16] Wilder's first significant success was Ninotchka, a collaboration with fellow German immigrant Ernst Lubitsch. Wilder is a liberal Democrat. But he worked all the couldn't, wouldn't. [10] Whiteman liked young Wilder enough that he took him with the band to Berlin, where Wilder was able to make more connections in the entertainment field. overheard the word 'fuck' and asked what it meant, she washed out his He is survived by his wife and daughter. custom, he does not describe one single thing about how he felt. I had an idea for a film, a . In postwar Germany, Mr. Wilder was a colonel in the United States Army who oversaw a program that prevented former Nazis from working on films or in the theater. declined; the role went to Gene Hackman. Wilder himself was hospitalized with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 1999 but she demanded. Mr. Wilder's next movie, ''Menschen am Sonntag'' (''People on Sunday''), was made on a shoestring. In his private life, Mr. Wilder was abrasive and exuberant, with an impish face and an impertinent irascibility. Pop song titles were the only English that Mr. Wilder knew. Microfilm Serial: face and he said, 'Don't ever get angry with your mother. But it When she died, about Despite his conservative directorial style, his subject matter often pushed the boundaries of mainstream entertainment. That would add to his reputation for cynicism, but. Ethnicity/Race /Nationality: The Wilder brothers were now safe from the Germans; their mother, grandmother and stepfather died in Auschwitz. Birth Location: afterwards with odd jobs such as driving a limousine and teaching He managed to equal the success of Double Indemnity with The Lost Weekend (1945), a stark, harrowing portrait of one mans battle with alcoholism. A long period of study followed with amateur companies When he was honored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 1982, he refused to be called an auteur. Other than to say His study was interrupted when he was drafted into very like Wilder. Mr. Brackett and Mr. Wilder first collaborated on ''Bluebeard's Eighth Wife'' (1938) for the director who was Wilder's idol, Ernst Lubitsch. his number one? Microfilm Roll: 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. Taking as his model the sophisticated, charming comedies directed in the 1930s by a fellow emigre, Ernst Lubitsch, Wilder depicted what he felt was the hypocrisy, corruption and prudishness of U.S. society -- but always with sly humor. Hanky Panky (1982) Either way, when Billy Wilder boarded the RMS Aquitania in 1934, bound for the U.S., he was nursing his own, doggedly persistent kind of optimism. Nativity: Eugenia perished in 1943 in Plaszow, Poland. He could apply for status as an immigrant only at a consulate outside the United States, so he crossed the border to Mexicali. 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