Billy Wilder: The Complete Films (Paperback)

~ Glenn Hopp 195 (Author) "In Richard Attenborough's movie biography Chaplin (1992), a curious scene appears that would resonate for many film-makers coming to America from abroad..." (more)
Key Phrases: double indemnity, Charles Brackett, Sunset Boulevard, Jack Lemmon (more...)

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"The only thing that bothers me more than not being taken seriously is being taken too seriously." -Billy Wilder"

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This biography of director Billy Wilder ("Sunset Boulevard, Some Like it Hot") contains movie posters, a bibliography and a complete filmography.

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Product Details Paperback: 192 pages Publisher: Taschen (November 1, 2003) Language: English ISBN-10: 3822815950 ISBN-13: 978-3822815953 Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.6 x 0.7 inches Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review) Amazon.com Sales Rank: #886,284 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Charles Brackett, Sunset Boulevard, Jack Lemmon, William Holden, Sherlock Holmes, Claudette Colbert, Foreign Affair, Irma la Douce, Some Like It Hot, The Lost Weekend, Buddy Buddy, Ernst Lubitsch, Erich von Stroheim, Gary Cooper, Marilyn Monroe, Seven Year, Audrey Hepburn, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, The Private Life of Sherlock, Bing Crosby, Charles Boyer, Hold Back the Dawn, Joe Gillis

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This book cites 17 books:

• Sunset Boulevard by Billy Wilder on 14 pages
• Some Like It Hot by Dan Auiler on 8 pages
• Witness for the Prosecution (VHS) by Billy Wilder on page 115, page 116, and page 186
• The Witness for the Prosecution (St. Martin's Minotaur Mysteries) by Agatha Christie on page 115, page 116, and page 186
• Understanding Movies (10th Edition) by Louis Giannetti on page 13, and Back Matter

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6 books cite this book:

• How I Made A Hundred Movies In Hollywood And Never Lost A Dime by Roger Corman on page 43, and page 171
• Faith In Film: Religious Themes In Contemporary Cinema by Christopher Deacy on page 65, and Back Matter
• Crossing the Stage: Controversies on Cross-Dressing by Lesley Ferris in Front Matter
• Reading 'Desperate Housewives': Beyond the White Picket Fence (Reading Contemporary Television) by Janet McCabe in Back Matter
• Hollywood's Dark Cinema: The American Film Noir (Twayne's Filmmakers Series) by R. Barton Palmer in Back Matter

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Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Taschen (November 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3822815950
• ISBN-13: 978-3822815953
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #886,284 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Genius of Wilder Augmented by Wondrous Photographs, December 5, 2004

By	Ed Uyeshima (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

To me, Billy Wilder is synonymous with the best of what Hollywood offered during the mid-century golden era. A consummate screenwriter, who eventually evolved into one of the leading directors and producers, Wilder has made film classics that have endured into our collective consciousness. Author Glenn Hopp does a nice job following Wilder's career from his birth in Austria in 1906 to his escape from the Nazi uprising in Germany to his eventual settlement in Hollywood. He started writing for his mentor, Ernst Lubitsch, penning the scripts for lovely confections such as "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife" and the Garbo classic, "Ninotchka". Then he made his directorial debut with a Ginger Rogers romper, "The Major and the Minor" in 1942. After that film he had a string of critical and commercial hits - "Double Indemnity", "The Lost Weekend", "Sunset Boulevard", "Stalag 17", "Sabrina", "Love in the Afternoon", "Witness for the Prosecution", and arguably his high-water marks, "Some Like It Hot" and "The Apartment", both non-coincidentally starring a never-better Jack Lemmon. Wilder continued into the 1980`s, but he became less assured with his later films. The book covers each film and provides tantalizing glimpses into the stars involved. It also has some interesting inserts on the visual style he displayed in certain films like "The Apartment", the use of minor characters, and most interesting, deleted scenes like a shot of Fred MacMurrray facing the gas chamber at the end of "Double Indemnity".

For those who want a more critical and detailed assessment of Wilder's career, this is not it. The book breezes through much of his history, but the photographs are wonderful, some familiar, many completely new to me, for example, color shots on the set of "Some Like It Hot". But if you are looking for a more comprehensive view of his work and his filmmaking process, as well as more on his personal life and dealings with his casts, then I suggest you pick up Ed Sikov's "On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder", a fairly thorough, even-handed biography. As with most of the Taschen books, this is well worth getting simply for the plentiful photographs beautifully presented.