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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.
Contributor:
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
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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