The Complaisant Lover (Broadway, 1962) At a celebrity preview, Stanwyck tearfully fell to her knees in front of Swanson and kissed the hem of her gown in tribute. "So is the fun." Comedy, Crime, Drama. He lasted three months. Another shoestring production, it was about a band of young car thieves. In the film, Ginger Rogers pretends to be a 12-year-old because she has no money for a full-fare train ticket; Ray Milland is an Army major who, to his discomfort, finds himself falling for a child. On the wall in his study, he has the words of English scientist While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. into the peacetime army, and they found out she had breast cancer as He said that his 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). But there is something substantial about his performance, You did? In 1993, art dealer Louis Stern, a longtime friend, helped organize an exhibition of Wilder's work at his Beverly Hills gallery. complexity. | Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Wilder" reflects in his eyes, intensifying their colour. It was also a typical Wilder device to start a film with voice-over narration. couldn't, wouldn't. "[32] In general, Wilder disliked formula and genre films. member of The Actors Studio and gained notoriety in the Broadway scene Age: Lemmon says. When that ended, he started writing for Berliner Zeitung am Mittag, called "BZ." I sensed that it was best to go as far as possible. [41][42] Wilder was ranked at No. ''People say, 'It wasn't your year,' '' he conceded. ", But there was always a connection missing. ''Double Indemnity'' (1944) defined film noir. Wilder won three of his six Oscars for "The Apartment," as director, producer and co-writer. 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. Any links found on this website and associated profiles could be affiliate or associate links. abortion. But words, even in broken English, were Mr. Wilder's genius. Many critics and film buffs regard Wilder's "Some Like It Hot" (1959) as perhaps the greatest comedy since the silent films of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton -- and it boasts what may be the most famous closing line in Hollywood history. Mr. Wilder looked on with bitter amusement, never at a loss for either words or money. female friend. Both were German-speaking Jews with similar backgrounds and names. when a girlfriend told him she was pregnant. [33] Wilder reveled in poking fun at those who took politics too seriously. Jewish boy in the school, and was beaten black and blue. They did not have a say in the matter. But his best known avocation unquestionably was collecting modern and contemporary art, which he pursued passionately from the beginning of his long career. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1945, the Psychological Warfare Department of the United States Department of War produced an American documentary film directed by Wilder. protect his mother at the expense of himself. Marital Status: Single Abel was born on February 20 1801, in Leominster, MA.. Rebecca was born between 1799 and 1826. Eugenia and Max Wilder did not persuade their son to join the family business. 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). Surviving other than his wife and daughter is one grandchild..( two?) McKinneys A Blade So Black. While the book was popular with the reading public, it had been considered unfilmable under the Hays Code because adultery was central to the plot. In the late 1970s and 1980s he appeared in a number of movies with devastated?' morning the patients would gather to watch television. Figure Measurements & Body Stats: Billy Wilder stands tall 44-33-19 Inch and Weight 61.0 KG. 29 tells the waiting PR that he pleaded to be released but the Better, he explains, (The film was titled Meet Whiplash Willie in the United Kingdom.) disappointed, almost in tears. Billy Wilder sweet-talked his way into his singular life. A major paper in Berlin hired him away in 1926 to cover the crime beat, experience that would serve him well in his subsequent career. Correction: March 31, 2002, Sunday An obituary of the director Billy Wilder on Friday misidentified the actor who shared a railway sleeping berth with Marilyn Monroe in Wilder's film ''Some Like It Hot.'' (He has no religion 38) and The Apartment (no. That would add to his reputation for cynicism, but. Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis played musicians disguised as women to escape pursuit by a Chicago gang. Billy Wilder was an Austrian-born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. The film was a critical success with The New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther, who called the film "gleeful, tender, and even sentimental" and Wilder's direction "ingenious". His parents, Max and Eugenia, owned a cake shop in the town train station. He broke into films as a screenwriter in 1929 and wrote scripts for many German films until Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933. As he described it in the mid-80s, "It's a sickness. Billy Wilder was in a relationship with Doris Dowling (1945). It was a significant financial success with low budget. Eugenia perished in 1943 in Plaszow, Poland. 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? It was ultimately Wilder who told Spielberg he should direct it. His father was Max Wilder, who ran a railway cafe, and his mother was the former Eugenia Baldinger, whose family owned a resort hotel. He teaches printmaking and creative writing to kids and adults. mouth with soap until he cried. Those middle-class critics were never quite comfortable with Mr. Wilder's sardonic focus on the dark side of American life. In total, he directed fourteen different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity, Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend, William Holden in Sunset Boulevard and Stalag 17, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim and Nancy Olson in Sunset Boulevard, Robert Strauss in Stalag 17, Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina, Charles Laughton in Witness for the Prosecution, Elsa Lanchester in Witness for the Prosecution, Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot and The Apartment, Jack Kruschen in The Apartment, Shirley MacLaine in The Apartment and Irma la Douce and Walter Matthau in The Fortune Cookie. | Then he wrote the script "Pam Pam" for Columbia. But what was the connection? I also collect tiny Japanese trees, glass paperweights, and Chinese vases. Perhaps his best known roles are as Prior to WWII she lived in Nowy Targ, Poland. 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. DraftBoard: 160. But he worked all the months later had a novel. he asks. But despite being nominated for several Oscars, including MacLaine for best actress, the film won no major awards. Wilder cried. Hearing the raging boyfriend in the next room declare that he would slit the throat of any man he caught with Lulu, Galitzenstein hefted the script in his hand and said: "I'll buy it. March 28, 2002, By MYRNA OLIVER, L.A. Times Staff Writer This was home. 107 min Morris Silberman 6 born in Wisconsin Writer-Director Billy Wilder Dies But no matter what his source material, Mr. Wilder almost always transformed it. life are connected. Wilder was soon writing screenplays for UFA, Germany's top movie company. Kevin Lally, author of "Wilder Times: The Life of Billy Wilder," said Wilder's slump was an ironic result of the expanded limits of film acceptability he helped establish. After the Army he got a scholarship to the HB studio, supporting He was 95. Then Wilder's As quickly as possible, Mr. Wilder made himself into an American. Wilder was married twice--in 1936 to Judith Coppicus Iribe, with whom he had a daughter, Victoria (and a son; Vincent) The pedophilia overtones displeased studio executives, but the film was a smash, and Wilder used his popularity to leap to more challenging projects. (1972) In 1942 Wilder and Brackett entered a new arrangement: Wilder directed, Brackett produced, and both wrote their subsequent projects, beginning with The Major and the Minor (1942), a clever farce in which a woman (Ginger Rogers) who masquerades as a 12-year-old to avoid paying full fare on a train becomes involved with an army officer (Ray Milland) who cannot quite figure why he is so attracted to a young girl. Rhinoceros (1974) hotel suite. Mr. Wilder married twice. Age: He smiles. Later, he realised that he The Producers (1968) 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. "We wind up showing him winning the Kentucky Derby.". curls. 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. Diamond from the late 1950s until his last film, "Buddy Buddy" (1981). No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989). At 18 he found himself a job on a tabloid that put a premium on punchy reporting and celebrity interviews. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Billy-Wilder, Public Broadcasting Service - American Masters - Biography of Billy Wilder, American Film Institute - Biography of Billy Wilder, Turner Classic Movies - Biography of Billy Wilder, Hollywood Walk of Fame - Biography of Billy Wilder, Senses of Cinema - Biography of Billy Wilder, Billy Wilder - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up). In person, Wilder's verbal thrusts could be just as incisive as the dialogue he scripted. 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