Billy Wilder : interviews
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. These collected interviews follow the filmmaking career of one of Hollywood's most honoured and successful writer-directors and spans over fifty years.
Print Book, English, ©2001
University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, ©2001
interviews
xxxvii, 200 pages [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9781578064434, 9781578064441, 1578064430, 1578064449
47869687
The happiest couple in Hollywood / Lincoln Barnett
Wilder seeks films "with bite" to satisfy "nation of hecklers" / Philip K. Scheuer
Why not be in Paris? / Newsweek
Charming Billy / Richard Gehman
In Wilder's wild west / Thomas Wood
The message in Billy Wilder's fortune cookie : "Well, nobody's perfect ..." / Richard Lemon
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"Yes, we have no naked girls" / Mark Shivas
Broadcast to Kuala Lumpur / Vanessa Brown
Apropos Avanti! / Michel Ciment
Shooting The front page : two Damns and one By God / Joseph McBride
"You used to be very big." "I am big. It's the pictures that got small." / Jon Bradshaw
Billy Wilder / Gene D. Phillips
Dialogue on film : Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond / The American Film Institute
Double indemnity : a policy that paid off / John Allyn
Going for extra innings / Joseph McBride and Todd McCarthy
A cynic ahead of his time / Stephen Farber
The art of Billy Wilder / Michael Blowen
Saul Bass and Billy Wilder in conversation / Pat Kirkham
An interview with Billy Wilder / Burt Prelutsky
Includes index