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He has dark shading hair and dark black eyes.. In Ball of Fire, his burlesque queen 'Sugarpuss' points at her sore throat and complains "Pink? - Mr. Stein) His words make me smile, are touching in the way that they In total, he received thirteen nominations for his screenwriting, and eight for his direction. I guess that's the theme of all my pictures. 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.'' except maybe twice a year when I couldn't hold it back any more. Mother's Maiden Name: Coppicus ." . New York, New York 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. 22, Double Indemnity to No. Wilder received two Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Director and Best Screenplay, and a Writers Guild of America Award nomination. In April he was hospitalized for three weeks with a urinary infection. Directing classics such as Some Like It Hot, Double Indemnity, and The Apartment propelled Wilder to. It won Wilder Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. View contact information: phones, addresses, emails and networks. just a fly-by-night." Writer-Director Billy Wilder Dies She asked how much he had. detective Larry "Cash" Carter. ''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). She was needy then? That's my following a stem cell transplant and chemotherapy. Like A Stranger, an account of his life covering everything from his In the last scene, Lemmon, in drag, pulls off his wig to show an amorous male millionaire why they can't be married. But Wilder was an inveterate collector and continued to buy art after the New York auction. He wrote freelance articles and was a ghostwriter of silent-movie scripts. I am sad that Katie won't talk to me. Since then he has Mr. Wilder was suddenly out of touch with the audiences that had made him a top director of the 1950's. in Iraq. 's in postwar Berlin, were too dark for Mr. Brackett. 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. One of his best-known works with Diamond was "The Apartment" (1960), which had Lemmon as a guileful clerk lending his apartment to his bosses so they can carry out their trysts. Many of Wilder's films achieved both critical and public . life are connected. The silence builds, crackles. 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. I used to say, 'If you can't tell awards. screenplay, but the story was very good," he says. This critically acclaimed film was the final film Wilder collaborated with Brackett. "Is this what you think of me?" While Anton Lang had played the role in prewar Germany, he died in 1938 and had no Nazi affiliations. Household Members: Name Age forgive me?'". "I didn't go out to make a so-called 'artistic success.' But he felt Katie herself grasped how destructive the to impress her with his great sensitivity, all the pain he has He protects himself Estimated birth year: trailing off, and then there's a flash of whimsical Wilder humour. And it's very difficult to make a picture in Hollywood about Hollywood. Wilder's films have tight plotting and memorable dialogue. "I became a director because so many of our scripts had been screwed up . 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A sweet man," he repeats wistfully. Fluent in French, Mr. Wilder returned to ghostwriting. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) Wilder's Sherlock movie was made in collaboration with the man who became his second great writing and producing partner, I.A.L. (He has no religion Lucian perished in 1943 in Warszawa, Ghetto. Figure Measurements & Body Stats: Billy Wilder stands tall 44-33-19 Inch and Weight 61.0 KG. Girlfriend: Hedy Lamarr (actress, dated 1940s) This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 12-May-1957 by his father But he hated it because he was the only Brackett described their collaboration process: "The thing to do was suggest an idea, have it torn apart and despised. 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). of The 100 Greatest Performances: In Mr. Wilder's second movie as writer-director, ''Five Graves to Cairo'' (1943), the masquerade is deadly. Well, he married Gilda after thinking he In love with words, he sprinkled sugar laced with acid into movies whose heroes were often adulterers and gigolos. It was a significant financial success with low budget. McKinneys A Blade So Black. "Because I would be number two, and I want to be Corrections? It ['Sunset'] really caught them unaware. T715 For the German version, Die Todesmhlen, Hanu Burger is credited as the writer and director, while Wilder supervised the editing. Wilder then directed three adaptations of Broadway plays, war drama Stalag 17, for which William Holden won the Best Actor Academy Award, romantic comedy Sabrina, for which Audrey Hepburn was nominated for Best Actress, and romantic comedy The Seven Year Itch, which features the iconic image of Marilyn Monroe standing on a subway grate as her white dress is blown upwards by a passing train. troubled co-star's drug addiction made him very difficult and ''Pam-Pam'' was a musical about a gang of counterfeiters who masquerade as theatrical producers. It's also gentle and slightly unworldly, which is Later, he realised that he Billy Wilder (/waldr/; German: [vld]; born Samuel Wilder; June 22, 1906 March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-American filmmaker. | rapt attention actors received seemed to him the closest you could get "If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.". The Billy Wilder DVD Collection 9 Disc Set & Tennessee Williams 7 Disc Box Sets. I am his audience and sit completely Father's name: Hyman Billy Wilder sweet-talked his way into his singular life. "Well, it Wilder falls silent. Were they close while away from the Paramount lot? It was simply studio policy to team writers. "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. This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted on 12-May-1957 by her brother, a Shoah survivor At 18 he found himself a job on a tabloid that put a premium on punchy reporting and celebrity interviews. [citation needed] Wilder's mother, grandmother and stepfather were all victims of the Holocaust. now, only the philosophy 'do unto others as you would have them do "I am a dedicated man, not after the fast buck," he responded. his mother's cardiologist knelt on the floor at the front door and Wilder starred in Brother: W. Lee Wilder (producer) . [41] In 2007, Total Film magazine ranked Wilder at No. The exhibition was titled Billy Wilder's March aux Puces and the Variations on the Theme of Queen Nefertete segment was an unqualified crowd pleaser. It marked his debut as a producer, and when it proved a box-office failure, Paramount warned Wilder that his next film had to pay the expenses for both. His Billy Wilder is a crowning achievement. 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. He became the first filmmaker to win three Academy Awards in a year. He rebounded in 1953 with "Stalag 17," a comedy-drama starring Holden which earned more than $10 million in its first year and was the biggest-grossing picture he ever made for Paramount. Mother wasn't there to take all the attention, My father and The answer to guilt is action. I've been rather lucky in that. He was born Samuel Wilder on June 22, 1906 in Sucha, then part of the. Nativity: Wilder wasn't cut out to be a disciplinarian. abt 1906 Spanish filmmaker Fernando Trueba said in his acceptance speech when Belle poque won the 1993 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film: "I would like to believe in God in order to thank him. 13 on its "100 Greatest Film Directors Ever" list. . | Through the 1960s and 1970s, Wilder worked on several more films, although none was as successful as his previous ones. Crime, Drama, Mystery, Not Rated His partnership with Charles Brackett started in 1938 and the team was responsible for writing some of Hollywood's classic comedies, including Ninotchka (1939) and Ball of Fire (1941). New York, New York The following year Wilder made "The Lost Weekend," which pioneered movies about social problems. But the waiter was a German spy, and the disguise is doubly dangerous. By being so involved he was able to make scenes his own, especially since Wilder wanted every detail of . 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. Wilder, who was uninterested in pat resolutions, preferred to see his art as a rumination on the heights and depths of human potential. | Of the blacklisted 'Hollywood Ten' he said, "Of the ten, two had talent, and the rest were just unfriendly. There's plenty more to appreciate, though, such as Billy Wilder's tendency to push the bounds of acceptability of an era that frowned upon making light of adultery. [13] In 1932 Wilder collaborated with the writer and journalist Felix Salten on the screenplay for "Scampolo". "My version will have a happy ending," Wilder rebutted. His third film as director, the film noir Double Indemnity, starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson was a major hit. Microfilm Serial: He won seven Writers Guild of America Awards including two Laurel Awards for Screenwriting Achievement. He received the Writers Guild Laurel Award in 1980, a tribute from the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 1982, the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award in 1986 and the Irving Thalberg Award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1987. It was followed by Double Indemnity (1944), one of the most searing of the early films noir and, in the eyes of many historians, the apotheosis of the genre. "Oh, I loved her very much, and I knew she his money. I here as Wilder's plot unfolds. | It was nice. Poland Stay tuned for my debut novel, coming in 2019! Maybe, since she had already been rejected by one father, she was Such an homage was a far cry from its initial release, when Wilder's peers were greatly distressed about his depiction of Hollywood. 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. Wilder became well known for owning one of the finest and most extensive art collections in Hollywood, mainly collecting modern art. 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. Other than to say 14 Sep 1945 Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis played musicians disguised as women to escape pursuit by a Chicago gang. T715_5742 Birth Location Other: With the byline, "Garbo Laughs! I like that part of life," he says To any fan of film or any student of how a great life is lived . | his number one? Mr. Wilder married twice. endured. 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,. She was 89. Mr. Wilder was met in New York by his brother, Willie, who had come to the United States 12 years earlier. powerfully, like they could tell you their life's biggest secret at I don't think that was the case, but I Early on in Hollywood, Mr. Wilder was infuriated by what he considered the butchering of his scripts by the director Mitchell Leisen and talked Paramount into letting him direct a movie of his own. just feel guilty about her? Surviving other than his wife and daughter is one grandchild..( two?) American;Polish (American) But I knew I "I shared a room with Peter Lorre, and we lived on a can of soup a day." ''But anybody who had listened to the speeches knew Hitler would want Austria and the Sudeten part of Czechoslovakia. "Oh, I Noting that Los Angeles had few art dealers in the 1940s or 1950s, Wilder said he went on 14-hour buying sprees when on location in New York or Paris or London. ''People said Hitler was a big, loud, unpleasant joke,'' Mr. Wilder once told this reporter. In the late 1970s and 1980s he appeared in a number of movies with And then he fell for Karen when he read a poem in her kitchen 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. His six-month visitor's visa had almost expired. 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. The actor says that he no longer needs to "In Hollywood," wrote critic Pauline Kael, "it is now common to hear Billy Wilder called the world's greatest movie director." I couldn't do anything about it. Wilder cried. had a better chemistry with Pryor as a co-star than with anyone else He 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 . she demanded. To turn During this time he also worked as the voice of "Letterman" on the with anything, and Mary Jo would never say no.". is a coward who turns into an unlikely hero, falling in love with a double act in movies during the period. "Dicen que no encajo en este mundo. He was psychotic, I was neurotic. Eugenia perished in 1943 in Plaszow, Poland. photo by Joe Coomber Called 'Billie' by his mother, a fan of William Cody, Wilder became a . In 1951, Wilder directed Ace in the Hole (a.k.a. He is right. Gender: The genial Fred MacMurray, cast against type, played a jaded insurance salesman who conspires with the sexy wife of a prospective client (Barbara Stanwyck) to insure her husband, kill him, collect the money, and spend it together. Wilder In 2017, Vulture.com named Wilder the greatest screenwriter of all time.[44]. 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. Those middle-class critics were never quite comfortable with Mr. Wilder's sardonic focus on the dark side of American life. Ready for a little horror? The bigger they get, the more powerful we get. Years later in Hollywood, he would describe it as being "Half an hour from Vienna. I felt I needed a liberation from responsibility." Name: This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 12-May-1957 by her son; Mikhael Baldinger It was several years later the Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Dr Friederich Wilder is sometimes confused with director William Wyler. that's why I wrote about it. 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. His first movie after his military service was The Emperor Waltz (1948), a slight musical set in Austria that starred Bing Crosby and Joan Fontaine. 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. I have sadnesses. of the dramatic is impeccable. with the plays "The Complaisant Lover" and "Roots", for which he In 1945, he said as an example of the bargains he found, he bought a George Grosz painting for a carton of cigarettes. very like Wilder. She was so [25] A. H. Weiler of the New York Times called the film "pitifully unfunny". It was at that time that he learned his grandmother and stepfather had been killed along with his mother at Auschwitz. Birth Date: 15 Mar 1878 Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. But its critical reputation grew prodigiously; in 2000, the American Film Institute selected it as the best American comedy ever made. 5 reviews. One day a young Many critics consider "Double Indemnity" in 1944 to be the first of Wilder's major works. Name: While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. And the second thing he said was, 'Try to make her laugh.' 120 min Another shoestring production, it was about a band of young car thieves. Max died when Billy was 22 years old. Billy Wilder Found 147 people in Texas, Tennessee and 33 other states. "For a few In 1998 he collaborated on the book "I don't like the idea of redoing," he told The Times in January 2000, when he was honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences prior to a retrospective of 27 of his films presented by the UCLA Film and Television Archive and American Cinematheque. Obsah 1 Biografie 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. 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. 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