"A double delight: a richly entertaining biography of both screenwriter-director Wilder and his milieu - Hollywood... a fascinating montage of a man whose talents and quirks, virtues and faults, are endlessly engrossing. Electrifying opinions of those with whom he has worked and the original casting choices for his films are often surprising: Mae West was his first choice for Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard and Mary Pickford was his second! A first-rate book about a complicated, talented curmudgeon." - After Dark
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Fascinating Look at Hollywood's Grand Old Man,
This review is from: Billy Wilder in Hollywood (Limelight) (Paperback)
Amidst the flurry of new books by and about Billy Wilder, don't neglect this forgotten gem originally published in the mid-70s. Author Zolotow has an 'Old Hollywood' perspective on Wilder's astonishingly productive career and acerbic personality--not to be missed.
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As charming and witty as Wilder himself,
By Crescent Dragonwagon (35 isolated acres in the Green Mountains of Vermont; formerly, for 33 years, the Arkansas Ozarks) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Billy Wilder in Hollywood (Limelight) (Paperback)
I never read this book without laughing out loud in wonderment and delight. Unlike most other Wilder biographers, Zolotow (who died only a few years before Wilder) was a contemporary and spent years with the man, interviewing meticulously Wilder, Iz Diamond, and many of Wilder's actors and friends.His was the original, foundational research many later biographers drew oon. "Words, words, words?" Well, of course --- that is what books are made of! In the interest of full disclosure: I am Zolotow's daughter. I don't adore all my father's books, but this one truly delights me. The tapes of these interviews, BTW, are held by the University of Texas Special Collections department.
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Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard, New York, Los Angeles, The Apartment, Some Like It Hot, Marilyn Monroe, Double Indemnity, Sherlock Holmes, Kiss Me Stupid, Irma La Douce, Jack Lemmon, Foreign Affair, Norma Desmond, Beverly Hills, Charlie Brackett, The Lost Weekend, Sam Goldwyn, Unheeded Advice, Gloria Swanson, Audrey Hepburn, Doris Dowling, William Holden, Jean Arthur, Moss Hart Browse Sample Pages:
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Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard, New York, Los Angeles, The Apartment, Some Like It Hot, Marilyn Monroe, Double Indemnity, Sherlock Holmes, Kiss Me Stupid, Irma La Douce, Jack Lemmon, Foreign Affair, Norma Desmond, Beverly Hills, Charlie Brackett, The Lost Weekend, Sam Goldwyn, Unheeded Advice, Gloria Swanson, Audrey Hepburn, Doris Dowling, William Holden, Jean Arthur, Moss Hart Browse Sample Pages:
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- Blackout: World War II and the Origins of Film Noir by Professor Sheri Chinen Biesen in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Close-up on Sunset Boulevard: Billy Wilder, Norma Desmond, and the Dark Hollywood Dream by Sam Staggs on page 387, and Back Matter
- Stroheim by Arthur Lennig in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Erich Maria Remarque: The Last Romantic by Hilton Tims in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Writers in Hollywood, 1915-1951 by Ian Hamilton on page 253, and Back Matter
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