and whom he divorced in 1947, and in 1949 to singer-actress Audrey Young. Wilder is a liberal Democrat. Writer-Director Billy Wilder Dies
Wilder met Audrey Young while filming The Lost Weekend. his father about the abuse, but not his mother. of The 100 Greatest Performances:
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. During the war she was in Plaszow, Poland. dominated his early life. 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. couldn't, wouldn't. It's as red as the Daily Worker and just as sore." After she
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He is responsible for two of the film noir era's most definitive films in Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard. ''The opening wasn't logical,'' Mr. Wilder once said, ''but it was riveting. But the Berlin of the Weimar era was the most exciting city east of Paris, and Mr. Wilder had no intention of returning to Vienna. "I just buy nice things and sometimes swap them for better ones. [14] After Adolf Hitler's rise to power, Wilder went to Paris, where he made his directorial debut film Mauvaise Graine (1934). But
reasons," he continues. Billy Wilder, the caustic writer and director who won six Academy Awards and international acclaim as one of the world's great filmmakers and then spent the last 21 years of his vivid life. 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
didn't want to, when she stopped clinging and suggested he holiday
For the German version, Die Todesmhlen, Hanu Burger is credited as the writer and director, while Wilder supervised the editing. Since then he has
Surviving other than his wife and daughter is one grandchild..( two?) He was buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary. "I kind of starved for a little bit," he said. 13 on its "100 Greatest Film Directors Ever" list. just a fly-by-night." Wilder mentioned Lemmon, and was the first director to pair him and Matthau in The Fortune Cookie. Moviegoers like a movie in which they can recognize a little of themselves.". double act in movies during the period. But no, she wasn't a prostitute. to play for her. 39
indeed have loved her enormously to feel that way. Wilder, who was uninterested in pat resolutions, preferred to see his art as a rumination on the heights and depths of human potential. Name: William Silberman, Home in 1920: Milwaukee Ward 10, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
He sold a second collection in 1993 through his long-time friend's Louis Stern Gallery in Beverly Hills. Columbia offered a one-way ticket and $150 a week. Paramount shelved the film indefinitely. Relation to Head of House: Son
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She said, 'Forgive me, I shouldn't have. Director and scriptwriter whose European sensibility provided Hollywood with wild humour, dark visions - and Sunset Boulevard, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. He received seven nominations at the Golden Globe Awards, winning Best Director for The Lost Weekend and Sunset Boulevard (1950). T715_7618
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92, Morris Dickstein (Spring 1988). 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. 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. Mr. Wilder was among the first of about 1,500 members of the German film industry who fled from Hitler to Hollywood between 1933 and 1939 and transformed American movies. [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. Microfilm Roll:
Humphrey Bogart shed his tough-guy image to give one of his warmest performances in Sabrina. Wilder's first big part was in Bonnie and Clyde where he played an
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"There is never a day I don't write something. 130 min He doesn't deal in redeeming social values. 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. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. It was a significant financial success with low budget. Wilder, a young screenwriter struggling to make a name amid the bohemian decadence of pre-War Berlin, heard a tap on his window. It's not tough to make a picture. Age:
Of the blacklisted 'Hollywood Ten' he said, "Of the ten, two had talent, and the rest were just unfriendly. 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. On Wednesday March 27, 2002 in Beverly Hills California, Billy Wilder died at the age of 95. "Oh, I
Wilder began studying drama and working in summer stock while studying
(1972). 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. We went fishing. I bought most of the stuff a couple of weeks ahead of the big prices." Young Frankenstein. But there is something substantial about his performance,
''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. Microfilm Roll:
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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. start of it, in his childhood, on that hot July day in Milwaukee when
To advance his career Wilder decided to move to Berlin, Germany
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Was offered the title role in Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums but
In 1970, he directed The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, which was intended as a major roadshow theatrical release, but to Wilder's dismay was heavily cut by the studio. into the peacetime army, and they found out she had breast cancer as
That night, the family were going out to dinner, and when Wilder took
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As a 19-year-old reporter, he became a Vienna tour guide for Whiteman, who took Mr. Wilder to Berlin, where the band was to play. It ['Sunset'] really caught them unaware. thought, 'When I get out of the army, I'm going to get help.'". "Sabrina," a 1954 film with Audrey Hepburn as a chauffeur's daughter who blossoms into a beauty, put a clever spin on a classic romantic storyline. Billy Wilder - Films of the 1950s | Britannica Billy Wilder Films of the 1950s of Billy Wilder Sunset Boulevard Sunset Boulevard Before splitting, apparently without rancour, Brackett and Wilder collaborated on one more film, which may have been their best. Wilder then collaborated with I.A.L. McKinneys A Blade So Black. March 28, 2002, By MYRNA OLIVER, L.A. Times Staff Writer
Paul Peachy, an unhappily married train conductor who runs away to
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wife does in My French Whore. And outside, hiding in a tree on this moonlit night, yearning for a glimpse of David Larrabee, studying every movement in this full house of wild different characters, crouches the lovesick Sabrina. Wilder's best known films include Double Indemnity (1944), The Lost Weekend (1945), Sunset Boulevard (1950), Ace in the Hole (1951), and Witness for the Prosecution (1957). It's also gentle and slightly unworldly, which is
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In 1993, art dealer Louis Stern, a longtime friend, helped organize an exhibition of Wilder's work at his Beverly Hills gallery. undertaker abducted by the couple. Prior to WWII she lived in Krakow, Poland. There are few people in his movies one could model one's behavior on. Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity, (Jerome "Jerry" Silberman in Milwaukee,
But Mr. Wilder always did well by his actors, and actors liked him. A ranking of the films directed by Billy Wilder that I have seen, presented in order of best to worst. Wilder directed The Front Page based on a Broadway play of the same name. Gean Silberman 22 born in Illinois to Russian parents
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. 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 . 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. The Producers (1968)
Raymond Chandler disliked him so much when they worked together on the screenplay for ''Double Indemnity'' that he tried to get him fired. In 1945, he said as an example of the bargains he found, he bought a George Grosz painting for a carton of cigarettes. The doctor's words then. 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. He broke into films as a screenwriter in 1929 and wrote scripts for many German films until Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933. Instead, he lay on the bed in his rented room and listened to the radio and learned 20 new English words every day. Wilder taught himself English by listening to baseball games on the radio and going to movies, forcing himself to learn 20 new words a day. 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. just feel guilty about her? Wilder is sometimes confused with director William Wyler. Age:
He had an inventive talent for making unpleasant situations hilarious, and he had the courage to deal with traditionally taboo subjects. Diamond--to correct immediately any mistake he made in writing the language. Name an object and I collect it. Eugenia Wildar was born in Nowy Targ in 1885 to Adolf and Balbina. The Life and Times of Billy Wilder, Writers Guild of America, west Laurel Award Recipients, Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing Feature Film, Directors Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award Feature Film, Film Society of Lincoln Center Gala Tribute Honorees, New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director, New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Billy_Wilder&oldid=1131148233, Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award winners, Best Original Screenplay Academy Award winners, Filmmakers who won the Best Film BAFTA Award, Producers who won the Best Picture Academy Award, Burials at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States, Knights Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, United States National Medal of Arts recipients, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles needing additional references from January 2022, All articles needing additional references, Pages using infobox person with multiple spouses, Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2019, All articles containing potentially dated statements, Articles containing Yiddish-language text, Articles with unsourced statements from June 2013, Articles with unsourced statements from August 2019, Articles with unsourced statements from August 2021, Wikipedia external links cleanup from June 2021, TCMDb name template using numeric ID from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Neil Sinyard & Adrian Turner, "Journey Down Sunset Boulevard" (BCW, Isle of Wight, UK, 1979), This page was last edited on 2 January 2023, at 20:02. [2] Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot, and The Apartment are included in the AFI's greatest American films of all time. And ''Witness for the Prosecution'' (1957), based on an Agatha Christie play, was a powerfully effective courtroom thriller. still because, subconsciously, when someone talks this slowly, this
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Eugenia perished in 1943 in Plaszow, Poland. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1939, having spent time in Mexico waiting for the government after his six-month card expired in 1934, an episode reflected in his 1941 Hold Back the Dawn. I had an idea for a film, a
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. The Producers. female friend. (b. Sucha, Austria 1906 - d. West Los Angeles 2002) Born as Samuel Wilder. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Broadway, 1963)
tells the waiting PR that he pleaded to be released but the
She asked how much he had. She was married to Adolf. By the time Wilder returned to the U.S., Paramount had decided to release the film. At 18 he found himself a job on a tabloid that put a premium on punchy reporting and celebrity interviews. Piercing blue eyes. Both critics and audiences embraced this powerful cautionary tale, which won the Academy Award as best picture, while Milland won for best actor, Wilder won as best director, and Wilder and Brackett won for their screenplay. He protects himself
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He saw mobs, a ruined currency and shattered families. Young Frankenstein (1974) (also writer)
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Wilder had arrived. months later had a novel. 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, Calif. A sweet man," he repeats wistfully. recognised himself. Silence. Find Billy Wilder's phone number, address, and email on Spokeo, the leading online directory for contact information. abortion. | ''People say, 'It wasn't your year,' '' he conceded. In 1926, Wilder got a job in Berlin handling publicity for touring American bandleader Paul Whiteman. "Mary Jo felt
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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). started acting because he craved attention as a child, he admits. ''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). 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. 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. As a young man, Wilder once came home and found her sitting
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