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Thu Oct 11 2007 10:36:10 |
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Billy Wlder is one of the American Screen's greatest Directors. Wilder directed a series of smash hit films in the l940's and 1950's and 1960's that today are considered classics: "Double Indemnity" "Lost Weekend" "Sunset Blvd", "Stalag 17" "Some Like It Hot" "Sabrina" "The Apartment" "Irma La Douce" etc. Correct casting was important to Wilder and his pictures featured great stars such as Garbo, Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, Shirely MacLaine, Wiliam Holden, Gloria Swanson, Henry Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck, James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Dean Martin, Marlene Dietrich, James Cagney, Kim Novak, Kirk Douglas and most famously with Marilyn Monroe in "The Seven Year Itch" and "Some Like It Hot" and with whom he fought tooth and nail but whom he called 'a Genius and 2nd only to Garbo before the Camera' Asked whom his two favorite Leading Ladies were towards the end of his life and he named Audrey Hepburn and Kim Novak. Wilder had a great friendship with Jack Lemmon who starred in several Wilder pix Wilder's two greatest hits are "Sunset Blvd" -with a blazing performance by Gloria Swanson- and one of the screen's two greatest fadeouts, the other being the riotous "Some Like It Hot" with Joe E. Brown 's immortal line in the fadeout of "Nobody's Perfect" to Jack Lemmon. Wilder's great finale is the little seen "Fedora" with Bill Holden and Hank Fonda about a Garbo-like star. Allied Artists Studio went bankrupt this film did not the distribution it deserved | ||
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