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  1. Some Like It Wilder: The Life and Controversial Films of Billy Wilder (Screen Classics) by Gene D. Phillips, 2009-12-22
  2. Conversations with Wilder by Cameron Crowe, 2001-09
  3. Billy Wilder (Pocket Essentials) by Glenn Hopp, 2001-03
  4. Nobody's Perfect: Billy Wilder, A Personal Biography (Applause Books) by Charlotte Chandler, Billy Wilder, 2004-08-01
  5. On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder by Ed Sikov, 1999-11-17
  6. Billy Wilder in Hollywood (Limelight) by Maurice Zolotow, Billy Wilder, 2004-08-01
  7. Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot: DVD Edition (25)
  8. Some Like It Hot by Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Dimond,
  9. Close-up on Sunset Boulevard: Billy Wilder, Norma Desmond, and the Dark Hollywood Dream by Sam Staggs, 2003-02-04
  10. Billy Wilder:The Complete Films, The Cinema of Wit 1906 - 2002 by Glenn Hopp, 2003-11-01
  11. Billy Wilder: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series)
  12. Conversations with Billy Wilder by Cameron Crowe, 2001-01-08
  13. Wilder Times: The Life of Billy Wilder by Kevin Lally, 1996-05
  14. Ethics and Social Criticism in the Hollywood Films of Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Billy Wilder by Nora Henry, 2000-10-30

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    Wilder Billy , w³a¶ciwie Samuel Wilder (1906-), amerykañski re¿yser, scenarzysta i producent filmowy pochodzenia austriackiego. Studiowa³ prawo na uniwersytecie w Wiedniu, w Berlinie pracowa³ jako dziennikarz. Napisa³ scenariusz do filmu R. Siodmaka Ludzie w niedzielê Po doj¶ciu do w³adzy A. Hitlera (1933) emigrowa³ do Francji, nastêpnie do Ameryki, gdzie wraz z Ch. Brackettem opracowa³ m.in. scenariusze do filmów E. Lubitscha Ósma ¿ona Sinobrodego (1938) i  Ninoczka (1939, nominacja do Oscara). Od 1942 re¿yserowa³ filmy przynosz±ce mu uznanie publiczno¶ci i nagrody (7 Oscarów za re¿yseriê, scenariusz i produkcjê, 14 nominacji do Oscara, Z³ota Palma w Cannes oraz nagroda im. I. Thalberga w 1987). Realizowa³ dramaty, komedie i musicale, m.in.:

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    Billy Wilder June 22 March 27 ) had a career as a screenwriter film director and producer that spanned more than 50 years and more than 60 films Born Samuel Wilder in Sucha Austria-Hungary (now Poland He started work in late as screenwriter in Germany , then left for France , then United States after the rise of Adolf Hitler . His mother, grandmother, and stepfather died at Auschwitz Sharing an apartment with Peter Lorre , he broke into writing in Hollywood with classics like Ninotchka . He was a noted collector of modern art. Billy Wilder died in 2002 in Los Angeles, California , and was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, Los Angeles, California Billy Wilder wrote or directed (or both) classics in more than one genre: edit ...
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    Awards Image Credits Links Writer turned director turned producer Billy Wilder contributed to a plethora of highly successful films of varying genres over the course of his 50+ year Hollywood film career, receiving an incredible eight Academy Award nominations as Best Director (second only to William Wyler who had twelve). He won the award twice, but even more amazing is the fact that he was nominated twelve times for Best Screenplay awards, and he took three of these home. Perhaps better than any other director of his time, Wilder succeeded in creating films of substance which appealed to (most) critics and audiences alike. Claudette Colbert and Gary Cooper in BLUEBEARD'S EIGHTH WIFE (1938), an Ernst Lubitsch comedy about a millionaire ( Cooper ) whose eighth wife ( Colbert ) tries to make sure she's the last. Wilder co-wrote the screenplay with Charles Brackett based on a French play by Alfred Savoir. Featuring Olivia de Havilland Charles Boyer and Paulette Goddard, HOLD BACK THE DAWN (1941) is the story of a spinster American school teacher ( de Havilland ) taken advantage of by a foreign gigolo who wants to immigrate to the United States. The film earned six Oscar nominations including one for Best Picture and one for the Wilder-Brackett screenplay based on Ketti Frings book.

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    An Austrian Legend e was born Samuel Wilder on June 22, 1906 in a remote corner of a remote province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now part of Poland). He died at his home in Beverly Hills, California on March 27, 2002. In the intervening 95 years, an impressive life story unfolded, a life that was to have a lasting impact on Hollywood and world cinema. T he recent Broadway and London musical productions of Sunset Boulevard , based on Billy Wilder's 1950 movie of the same name, and the 1995 remake of Sabrina
    In 1993, Billy Wilder (on right) revisited the Berlin site of his 1961 film, One, Two, Three . Here he is seen standing with Horst Buchholz, one of the film's stars, on the eastern side of the Brandenburg Gate, something they were not allowed to do during the filming because the East German authorities would not allow Wilder to film in their territory. The movie was something of a flop, partly because the Berlin Wall and East-West tensions went up just before the film's release, making the humor fall flat. The picture, with James Cagney as a Coca-Cola executive in Berlin, has been better received in recent times. PHOTO: DIE WELT film noir Double Indemnity (1944) to the hilarious Some Like It Hot (1959). Over the years, he directed stars such as Marilyn Monroe, Gloria Swanson, Ginger Rogers, Marlene Dietrich, Barbara Stanwyck, Shirley MacLaine, Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart, Ray Milland, Jack Lemmon, James Cagney, and many other famous silver-screen personalities.

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    F He was born Samuel Wilder on June 22, 1906 in Sucha, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His father, Max Wilder, who died in 1926, ran a chain of railway cafes. His mother Eugenia had spent several years in the United States in her youth. She nicknamed her younger son "Billy" because of her fascination with legendary American hero, Buffalo Bill. Wilder briefly studied law in Vienna before obtaining a newspaper job writing interviews, crime and sports stories, and hard-hitting personal profiles. In 1926, Wilder’s interests led him to a publicity job with the American jazz bandleader Paul Whiteman in Berlin. He remained in Berlin writing for the city’s largest tabloid.
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    BILLY WILDER Nascut a Viena, Samuel Wilder va iniciar els estudis de Dret, que va abandonar per a llançar-se a una carrera com ballarí i, posteriorment, va acabar treballant com periodista a Berlín. El seu llinatge jueu li va obligar a abandonar Alemanya en 1933, amb l'arribada al poder d'Adolf Hitler.
    Després d'un breu pas per París, on va debutar amb la realització de 'Curvas peligrosas', arriba a Hollywood reclamat per un altre exiliat, Joe May, perquè redactès guions per a altres cineastes refugiats, a pesar del seu desconeixement de l'anglès. Es va associar més tard amb Charles Brackett i va escriure els guions d'algunes comèdies clàssiques, com 'Ninotchka' i 'Bola de fuego'.
    En 1942, amb Brackett de productor, el duo va crear diversos clàssics com 'Perdición', 'Cinco Tumbas al Cairo', 'Días sin Huella' (Oscar a la Millor Pel·lícula, Millor Director i al Millor Guió) i 'El Crepúsculo de los Dioses' (Oscar al Millor Guió).
    A partir d'aleshores les seves pel·lícules van ser notablement més cíniques, com 'El Gran Carnaval', encara que Wilder també va produir comèdies sublims com 'Con faldas y a lo loco' i 'El Apartamento' (Oscar a la Millor Pel·lícula i Millor Director). Wilderes va retirar definitivament al 1981.

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    By Paul Clinton CNN LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) Writer-director Billy Wilder, whose films' cynical worldview was often at odds with their rousing humor, died of pneumonia Wednesday night in his Beverly Hills home. He was 95. The director's health had been failing in recent months, producer George Schlatter, a longtime friend, told The Associated Press. Wilder died peacefully in his sleep about 11 p.m. PST, said Schlatter. Wilder was one of the last survivors of the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood. His remarkable career in American cinema extended from the mid-1930s to 1981 and included such classics as "Double Indemnity" (1944), "The Lost Weekend" (1945), "Sunset Blvd." (1950), "Sabrina" (1954), "Some Like It Hot" (1959) and "The Apartment" (1960). Along the way, he helped to shape the art of moviemaking for generations to come, forged the careers of many of Hollywood's greatest stars, was nominated for 21 Academy Awards and won six times. Both "The Lost Weekend" and "The Apartment" won best picture.

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    an interview by Robert Porfirio "A man who makes movies and certainly somebody like myself that makes all kinds of movies, works in different styles. I don't make only one kind of movie, like say Hitchcock. Or like Minnelli, doing the great Metro musicals. As a picture-maker, and I think most of us are this way, I am not aware of patterns. We're not aware that 'This picture will be in this genre.' It comes naturally, just the way you do your handwriting." An excerpt from Film Noir Reader 3 (November 2001, Limelight Editions). Go to the interview

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    b. June 22, 1906, Sucha, Poland.
    d. March 27, 2002, Los Angeles, USA. by Richard Armstrong Richard Armstrong is an Associate Tutor affiliated to the British Film Institute. He is preparing a book on Realism for BFI Publishing. filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources
    Bridging the transition between the studio system and the rise of independent producer-directors, and still active in the ‘New Hollywood’ era, Billy Wilder was a key player in the American cinema throughout the postwar period. A ‘30s screenwriter who became a contract director in the ’40s, by 1950 Wilder had come to be regarded as a consummate studio auteur. Producing from the mid-1950s, he and his co-screenwriters were renowned in front office and fan magazine for making money, teasing audience sensibilities, and pleasing the critics. If the early-1960s saw a critical downturn, by the mid-1970s Wilder’s reputation led to accolades and awards. He was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire the son of a businessman. Baulking at a career in law, Wilder’s imagination was fired by his mother’s girlhood experiences in America. (He was even nicknamed Billie because she had been smitten with 'Buffalo Bill' Cody). Growing up in the devastated Europe of post-Great War American largesse, he fell under the spell of jazz, the Charleston, and Douglas Fairbanks. Dropping out of university in 1925, his knowledge of American culture got him into journalism. In 1926 he interviewed band leader Paul Whiteman. So impressed was Whiteman with Wilder that Wilder accompanied him on the Berlin leg of his tour.

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