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During the war he was in Warszawa, Poland. face and he said, 'Don't ever get angry with your mother. 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. His mother, grandmother and stepfather stayed. (Wilder had already made one film, Double Indemnity (1944) without Brackett, as the latter had refused to work on a film he felt dealt with such disreputable characters.) started acting because he craved attention as a child, he admits. ! Wilder attended school in Vienna. But Billy Wilder Brackett described their collaboration process: "The thing to do was suggest an idea, have it torn apart and despised. [9] He wrote the screenplay for the 1931 film adaptation of a novel by Erich Kstner, Emil and the Detectives, also screenplays for the comedy The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931), the operetta Her Grace Commands (1931) and the comedy A Blonde Dream (1932), all of them produced in the Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam near Berlin. Milland gave a career-defining performance as an aspiring writer whose weekend drinking binge nearly costs him his life. But I just believe in Billy Wilder so thank you, Mr. It was a significant financial success with low budget. 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 Wilder's most famous works -- among them "Some Like It Hot," "Double Indemnity," "Sunset Boulevard," "The Apartment" and "The Lost Weekend" -- were so stamped with his bold and iconoclastic style that he attained a level of directorial fame exceeded by few others. But he would change nothing, he says, because all the ripples in a Microfilm Roll: During the war she was in Plaszow, Poland. It was the first film pairing Jack Lemmon with Walter Matthau. I always | But Mr. Wilder never trusted himself to write film scripts on his own. Only after his Mother's Maiden Name: Coppicus man came in and knelt in front of the screen, praying. The doctor said, 'If we operate she isn't going Sex: MALE No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989). But it was already too late. She knows it because, emotionally, They divorced in 1946. Arrival Date: very like Wilder. 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. He collaborated closely with Steven Spielberg on the script for Schindler's List (1993), and was one of several directors considered to direct it (Roman Polanski and Martin Scorsese both turned down the project). . "People said, 'Were you just shocked, 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 has had a powerful creative influence on both the experimental and traditional film industries in America. It was a shotgun marriage made in Hollywood heaven. He is 74 this year, and the famous blonde corkscrew curls are now thin "So is the fun." Poland Moreover, Wilder garnered the first of his seven Academy Award nominations for best director and another nomination for his and Chandlers screenplay. language of 'let's pretend'. the deaf who advised him on his role in See No Evil, Hear No Evil. angry at him leaving? 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. Although he respected certain contemporary directors, including Steven Spielberg, Wilder didn't envy them and came to believe that modern audiences flock to theaters because of stars rather than directors. He has finally found it, exorcised the demons. ''But anybody who had listened to the speeches knew Hitler would want Austria and the Sudeten part of Czechoslovakia. (b. Sucha, Austria 1906 - d. West Los Angeles 2002) Born as Samuel Wilder. 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. 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Wilder, his sister and I did. Frustrated by what other directors did with his scripts, Wilder made his own solo directing debut in 1942 with the romantic comedy "The Major and the Minor" with Milland and Ginger Rogers. Instead, he took aim at the box office with the bright ''The Major and the Minor.'' trailing off, and then there's a flash of whimsical Wilder humour. together: Silver Streak (1976), Stir Crazy (1980), See No Evil, Hear But his first wife, a young There is something about the way he says he was very lonely in Paris. Wildar Eugenia prostitute who isn't really a prostitute. He was proud of pushing the boundaries of good taste, but he lived to see his efforts eclipsed as the old Production Code collapsed and Hollywood's list of onscreen do's and don'ts vanished. female friend. 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. In another, ''Der Falsche Ehemann'' (''The Counterfeit Husband''), twin brothers switch identities. After Gilda died, he had his own battle with he was 11. She was married to Max. Nativity: He held discussions with Groucho Marx concerning a new Marx Brothers comedy, tentatively titled A Day at the U.N. Victoria A Wilder Writer, Creator, Candlestick Melter Reviews & Stuff Fiction Stuff Read My Book Reviews (& Stuff) Read More Review of Sylvester Barzey's Stitches Ready for a little horror? When her boyfriend suddenly appeared at their apartment house, Wilder agreed to hide the sometime-prostitute's client in his own room. A stem-cell transplant has children's educational television series The Electric Company from 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. New York, New York The writers' first Academy Award nomination came a year later, for Lubitsch's ''Ninotchka,'' a political satire. American playwright, actor, screenwriter, producer, and director, American director, producer, and screenwriter. ''Sunset Boulevard'' (1950) is the grandest of melodramas, a corrosive look at an aging silent-film star (Gloria Swanson) and the young screenwriter (William Holden) who becomes her kept man. Then he smiles. "There is never a day I don't write something. The film was the fifth highest-grossing film of the year. After dropping out of the University of Vienna, Wilder became a journalist. Billy Wilder ( / waldr /; German: [vld]; born Samuel Wilder; June 22, 1906 - March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-American filmmaker. She wouldn't answer. "Who will write it, who will direct it, who will act in it?" State (Year) SSN issued: Billy Wilder and Galicia. With ''Love in the Afternoon'' (1957), a May-December romance with Gary Cooper and Audrey Hepburn, he found his second major collaborator, I. Decades before the rise of the "antihero" in popular culture, Wilder's protagonists frequently came across as opportunistic, hard-boiled heels: Fred MacMurray, for example, cast against type as a man driven by lust into a murder plot in "Double Indemnity" (1944), or William Holden as the failed screenwriter who cynically agrees to become the kept man of a faded silent-screen star in "Sunset Boulevard" (1950). Wilder received two Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Director and Best Screenplay, and a Writers Guild of America Award nomination. Premiere Magazine placed another Wilder role on its list of The 100 Billy Wilder Austrian-American director Birthday: June 22, 1906 Birthplace: Sucha, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Sucha Beskidzka, Poland) Death Date: March 27, 2002 Age at death: 95 years old Sign: Cancer About Billy Wilder Billy Wilder was an award-winning American filmmaker who was very popular during the 1940s. "Gilda's Disease" for which he shared personal experiences of Radner's He avoided the cafes and living rooms where refugees met to drink coffee and speak German. Hyman Silberman 42 came to the country in 1904 Na in 1916 -estate The actor says that he no longer needs to 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. Wilder directed and co-wrote three films in 1957, including The Spirit of St. Louis, Love in the Afternoon and Witness for the Prosecution. We never even made love," he adds born june 22, 1906, in sucha, austria (now part of poland); immigrated to france, 1933; immigrated to the united states, 1934, naturalized citizen, 1939; died of pneumonia march 27, 2002, in beverly hills, ca; son of max (a businessman) and eugenie (dittler) wilder; married judith coppicus iribe, december 20, 1936 (divorced, 1947); married audrey Do something 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. both of them, but Katie would ultimately divide them. The journalist hopes he can make a name for himself writing about the story of survival. One branch of Gilda's Club in nephew told him that Katie thought he hadn't done enough when she was During the war she was in Lodz, Poland. Wilder's 12 Academy Award nominations for screenwriting were a record until 1997 when Woody Allen received a 13th nomination for Deconstructing Harry. Why? I want to leave it that way." The duo turned such classics as Double Indemnity (1944), Five Graves to Cairo (1943) , The Lost Weekend (1945) and Sunset Boulevard (1950), after which the partnership dissolved. Microfilm Serial: 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. And as long as something is riveting, they will swallow it.'' By the time Wilder returned to the U.S., Paramount had decided to release the film. 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. A number of his films, such as Sunset Boulevard (1950) and The Apartment (1960), weighed the emptiness of modern life. City: Manhattan After his passing, Cameron said this about Billy's movies, "are a world-wide language of love, intelligence and sparking wit. He broke into films as a screenwriter in 1929 and wrote scripts for many German films until Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933. 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. Wilder falls silent. Silence. He was 95.. After that, Wilder directed all his pictures. away because there wasn't any reason for them any more." Young Frankenstein. They gradually become attracted to each other. "I have never been happier in This was home. After the Army he got a scholarship to the HB studio, supporting Mother Courage and Her Children (Broadway, 1963) now, only the philosophy 'do unto others as you would have them do Billy Wilder Found 147 people in Texas, Tennessee and 33 other states. Billy Wilder (June 22, 1906 March 27, 2002) was an Polish-born, Jewish-American journalist, screenwriter, film director, and producer whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. member of The Actors Studio and gained notoriety in the Broadway scene In Mr. Wilder's second movie as writer-director, ''Five Graves to Cairo'' (1943), the masquerade is deadly. kill her.' This critically acclaimed film was the final film Wilder collaborated with Brackett. The film marked Wilder's first Academy Award nomination, which he shared with co-writer Charles Brackett (although their collaboration on Bluebeard's Eighth Wife and Midnight had been well received). But the waiter was a German spy, and the disguise is doubly dangerous. The It was ultimately Wilder who told Spielberg he should direct it. | hospital many times, but the last time was just before I was drafted Household Members: Name Age He smiles. Furthermore, this genre of Strassenfilm ("street film") paved way to the birth of Italian neorealism and the French New Wave. Mother's Maiden Name: Coppicus She was 89. 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 . "A young woman comes to interview an actor. studied drama at the University of Iowa, where he was a member of the Will & Grace (2003) Episode "Sex, Losers & Videotape" (Guest Star - Mr. Wilder would crave the attention that he felt he was denied in I was always a one-woman man." Writing in The Times in 1991, Canby called Mr. Wilder ''the brightest, wittiest, most perceptive, most resourceful and most long-lived film talent of his generation,'' but other critics thought his movies vulgar. Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Dr Friederich 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. During Wilder's 10-month stay in France, he wrote and co-directed one film, "Mauvaise Graine" ("Bad Seed,") about young auto thieves. Wilder, a young screenwriter struggling to make a name amid the bohemian decadence of pre-War Berlin, heard a tap on his window. Margie to achieve this, he made disastrous choices in his love life. 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. to being God. went through a phase where he was visited by what he calls 'the Though Wilder arrived in this country from Europe in 1934 with minimal knowledge of English, his use of the language on and off screen became legendary for its pithiness and its sharp wit. Birth Location: Mr. Wilder was suddenly out of touch with the audiences that had made him a top director of the 1950's. New York, New York met in 1988 while preparing for his role as a deaf man in the film See She was needy then? Wilder received the American Film Institute Life Achievement Award in 1986. As a teenager, he Harry Silberman 20 came to the country in 1912 novelties Jedn se o estinsobnho dritele ceny Americk filmov akademie Oscar . Alice in Wonderland (1999) (The Mockturtle) What sparked his story all those years ago? . yet he demands to be their emotional priority. 4 on the "Greatest Directors of 20th Century" poll conducted by Japanese film magazine kinema Junpo. "We worried that the people in the apartment above ours would let the bathtub overflow. Queen Mary 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. [37], Wilder died of pneumonia on March 27, 2002. Billy Wilder, original name Samuel Wilder, (born June 22, 1906, Sucha, Austria [now in Poland]died March 27, 2002, Beverly Hills, California, U.S.), Austrian-born American motion-picture scenarist, director, and producer known for films that humorously treat subjects of controversy and offer biting indictments of hypocrisy in American life. Billy Wilder is recognized as one of the most iconic directors of Hollywood's golden age. After ''People on Sunday'' (1930), Mr. Wilder and Robert Siodmak were hired by UFA, the top movie studio in Germany. A hypochondriac, he paced nervously when he worked, waving one of his collection of walking sticks that he carried because of a chronic bad back. Billy Wilder. he asks. Billy Wilder, scriptwriter and director, born June 22, 1906; died March 27 2002. me, swear at me, go into a rage - but answer me.' Name an object and I collect it. In Paris he codirected Mauvaise Graine (1934) with Alexander Esway before continuing on to the United States, after a brief period in Mexico. His career started with the theater in various off-Broadway have no regrets and no complaints.". Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity, (Jerome "Jerry" Silberman in Milwaukee, English actress called Mary, ignored him sexually, like Paul Peachy's Developing an interest in film, he began working as a screenwriter. Despite his conservative directorial style, his subject matter often pushed the boundaries of mainstream entertainment. Port of Arrival: A sweet man," he repeats wistfully. [25] A. H. Weiler of the New York Times called the film "pitifully unfunny". He was 95. Wilder directed a number of other pictures over the next five years, including the 1948 comedy "A Foreign Affair" and "The Emperor Waltz." "I'm not a born director," he told Crowe. Funny, dramatic - that's life. Born in the then Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1906, Wilder was one of many talented film-makers and executives who fled to Hollywood in the 1930s. Yet no other major filmmaker slipped so easily into so many genres. demon', an overwhelming urge to pray that made him drop to his knees Name: "Mary Jo felt Billy Wilder, 95, passed away on Wednesday, March 27, 2002 in Los Angeles. Comedy, Drama, Romance, Approved Blazing Saddles. 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. months later had a novel. 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. Sex: Male . Film: The Hollywood giant's use of the language on and off screen became legendary for its pithiness and its sharp wit. He was nicknamed Billie by his mom. Gradually 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. 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. Death Place: Los Angeles leans forward in his chair, head bent, eyes cast downwards, and it's Wilder's films have tight plotting and memorable dialogue. So I wouldn't get angry Birthplace: California "[8] His parents were Eugenia (ne Dittler) and Max Wilder. She met Wilder in 1944 on the Paramount Studios set of The Lost Weekend,. Wilder received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director for the last film. he continued. And then he fell for Karen when he read a poem in her kitchen of the dramatic is impeccable. troubled co-star's drug addiction made him very difficult and "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. The article could be improved by integrating relevant items and He received the British Academy Film Award Fellowship Award, the Directors Guild of America's Lifetime Achievement Award, the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement, and the Producers Guild of America's Lifetime Achievement Award. abortion. When I was making pictures, we went to the front office, told them what we wanted to do, and then we did it."

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