On Sunset Boulevard, originally published in 1998, describes the
life of acclaimed filmmaker Billy Wilder (1906-2002), director of
such classicsas Sunset Boulevard, The Lost Weekend, The Seven Year
Itch, and Sabrina. This definitive biography takes the reader on a
fast-paced journey fromBilly Wilder's birth outside of Krakow in
1906 to Vienna, where he grew up, to Berlin, where he moved as a
young man while establishing himself as a journalist and
screenwriter, and triumphantly to Hollywood, where he became as
successful a director as there ever was. Double Indemnity, Sunset
Boulevard, Some Like It Hot, and The Apartment-Wilder's cinematic
legacy is unparalleled. Not only did he direct these classics and
twenty-one other films, he co-wrote all of his own screenplays.
Volatile, cynical, hilarious, and driven, Wilder arrived in
Hollywood an all-but-penniless refugee who spoke no English. Ten
years later he was calling hisown shots, and he stayed on top of
the game for the next three decades. Wilder battled with Humphrey
Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, Bing Crosby, and Peter Sellers; kept close
friendships with William Holden, Audrey Hepburn, Jack Lemmon, and
Walter Matthau; amassed a personal fortune by way of blockbuster
films and shrewd investments in art (including Picassos, Klees, and
Miros); and won Oscars-yet Wilder, ever conscious of his thick
accent, always felt the sting of being an outsider. On Sunset
Boulevard traces the course of a turbulent but fabulous life, both
behind the scenes and on the scene, from Viennese cafes and Berlin
dance halls in the twenties to the Hollywood soundstages of the
forties and the on-location shoots of the fifties and sixties.
Crammed with Wilder's own caustic wit, On Sunset Boulevard reels
out the story of one of cinema's most brilliant and prolific
talents.
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