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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
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.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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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 in Hollywood (Limelight) by Maurice Zolotow (Paperback - August 1, 2004)
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