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Nobody's perfect : Billy Wilder, a personal biography / Charlotte Chandler.
Van Pelt Library PN1998.3.W56 C49 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chandler, Charlotte.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wilder, Billy, 1906-2002.
- Wilder, Billy.
- Motion picture producers and directors--United States--Biography.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 352 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, [2002]
- Summary:
- The author of "I, Fellini" offers a candid look at the life and career of the great film director, Billy Wilder--much of it told in his own voice. 20 photos.
- Contents:
- Part I Europe
- Eugenia's Dream 15
- Billie, the Kid 19
- The Dream Prince 25
- Vienna, City of Broken Dreams 28
- Viennese Tarts 32
- Raincoats and Freud 35
- One-Way Ticket to Berlin 40
- Ghostwriting with a Shoehorn 44
- People on Sunday 47
- UFA 53
- Adieu, Berlin 58
- Emigre Auteur 60
- Part II Hollywood
- "Write Some Good Ones" 71
- The Brackett Touch 76
- "Next Year's Crowd" 80
- Every Cinderella Has Her Midnight 84
- "A Ghostwriter in the Toilet" 87
- Lovers of Fortune 92
- The Cockroach on the Cutting Room Floor 95
- The Slang Gang 99
- The Major and the Minor 102
- Five Graves to Cairo 111
- Double Indemnity 114
- The Lost Weekend 123
- Colonel Wilder, U.S. Army 127
- The Emperor Waltz 133
- A Foreign Affair 136
- Part III A Legend in His Own Time
- Sunset Boulevard 145
- Ace in the Hole 161
- Stalag 17 167
- Sabrina 171
- The Seven Year Itch 177
- The Spirit of St. Louis 183
- Love in the Afternoon 189
- Witness for the Prosecution 195
- Some Like It Hot 200
- The Apartment 223
- One, Two, Three 237
- Irma la Douce 243
- Kiss Me, Stupid 248
- The Fortune Cookie 251
- The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes 254
- Avanti! 274
- The Front Page 278
- Part IV A Legend in Somebody Else's Time
- Fedora 289
- Buddy Buddy 299
- Lights! Camera! Auction! 305
- Nefertete 316
- "Alone from My Time" 318.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0743217098 :
- OCLC:
- 49492984
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