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xvi, 352 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Filmography: pages 326-342. |
| Contents |
Europe -- Eugenia's Dream -- Billie, the Kid -- The Dream Prince -- Vienna, City of Broken Dreams -- Viennese Tarts -- Raincoats and Freud -- One-Way Ticket to Berlin -- Ghostwriting with a Shoehorn -- People on Sunday -- UFA -- Adieu, Berlin -- Emigre Auteur -- Hollywood -- "Write Some Good Ones" -- The Brackett Touch -- "Next Year's Crowd" -- Every Cinderella Has Her Midnight -- "A Ghostwriter in the Toilet" -- Lovers of Fortune -- The Cockroach on the Cutting Room Floor -- The Slang Gang -- The Major and the Minor -- Five Graves to Cairo -- Double Indemnity -- The Lost Weekend -- Colonel Wilder, U.S. Army -- The Emperor Waltz -- A Foreign Affair -- A Legend in His Own Time -- Sunset Boulevard -- Ace in the Hole -- Stalag 17 -- Sabrina -- The Seven Year Itch -- The Spirit of St. Louis -- Love in the Afternoon -- Witness for the Prosecution -- Some Like It Hot -- The Apartment -- One, Two, Three -- Irma la Douce -- Kiss Me, Stupid -- The Fortune Cookie -- The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes -- Avanti! -- The Front Page -- A Legend in Somebody Else's Time -- Fedora -- Buddy Buddy -- Lights! Camera! Auction! -- Nefertete -- "Alone from My Time." |
| Summary |
A portrait of controversial Hollywood legend Billy Wilder introduces readers to the man behind the camera that shot "Some Like It Hot" and "Sunset Boulevard," among other classic American films. |
| Subject |
Wilder, Billy, 1906-2002.
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Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Biography.
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Wilder, Billy, 1906-2002 (OCoLC)fst00047437
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Motion picture producers and directors. (OCoLC)fst01027225
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
0743217098 |
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9780743217095 |
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