...stories about Bogdanovich's past and about such characters as Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford and Orson Welles. Hammer Museum, Billy Wilder Theater, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., L.A. 8 p.m. Free. (310) 443-7000. hammer.ucla.edu. Photo exhibition (Friday-Sunday):...
...a drunk. Fred Derry is still poor and without skills. Homer Parrish still has no hands. Sunset Blvd. (1950), directed by Billy Wilder. Notable for Gloria Swanson’s triumphant comeback performance in a movie that denies her character a comeback, the film...
...the young girl (Nancy Olson) who sees more in him than there is, and of himself. Double Indemnity (1944), also directed by Billy Wilder. This time Wilder's anti-hero — played by Fred MacMurray, who could do tall but weak with the best of them (see "The...
...recommend this one. Here are the final run of A Movie A Day titles: Tomorrow begins our final week of AMAD, following director Billy Wilder over to the Jack Lemmon/Shirley MacLaine reteaming romantic comedy IRMA LA DOUCE! See you folks for that...
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Background
Billy Wilder (June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Polish-born, Jewish-American journalist, screenwriter, Academy Award-winning film director and producer, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. Many of Wilder's films achieved both critical and public acclaim.
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