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On the 75th anniversary of 'Sunset Boulevard,' Oscar nominee Nancy Olson talks about her experience on the film as a 22-year ...
Billy Wilder's caustic tale of Hollywood, obsession and murder, in which a fading star of silent pictures tries to recreate ...
A down-at-heel screenwriter, on the run from dogged repo men trying to requisition his car, pulls up at a dilapidated, ...
Seventy-five years after the film was released, David M. Lubin’s new book delightfully recounts its history as well as its continued relevance ...
“Billy Wilder and Me” is part coming-of-age-story and part true-life portrait about a young woman who begins working with Wilder during the filming of “Fedora” on a Greek island in 1977.
For Billy Wilder, one of the most influential filmmakers in Hollywood history, the priorities were always story and character. If the premise of a movie, no matter the genre, is fully supported by ...
Before Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled L.A. detective Philip Marlowe and his vivid literary prose caught the public’s attention, before Billy Wilder’s towering position as one of Hollywood ...
Billy Wilder debuted his most prescient film in 1961. It was a major flop. One, Two, Three, a three-sided farce about capitalism, hollow efforts at denazification and the simmering Cold War, was ...
Billy Wilder ’s filmmaking career ended without him actually noticing the fact. There came a point after his final two movies, Fedora (1978) and Buddy Buddy (1981), when Hollywood simply stopped ...
Samuel “Billy” Wilder, 95, died of pneumonia in 2002 — 73 years after he broke into the film business as a screenwriter in Berlin, Germany, several years before Hitler’s rise quickly sent ...
Billy Wilder’s ‘Apartment’ filled with wit and wonderful characters By Saul Asterlitz, Special to the Los Angeles Times Sept. 5, 2010 12 AM PT ...