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Billy Wilder is a producing Réalisateur, and American Scénariste , of Austrian origin . From its true name Samuel Wilder , it was born in Sucha (current Poland, at the time property of the Empire Austro-Hungarian) the June 22nd 1906 and died of a Pneumonie with Beverly Hills, in California (the United States) the March 27th 2002.

Biography

After a childhood in Poland within an Jewish family, Wilder leaves for Vienna of which he attends the university. It is established then with Berlin where he becomes dancer then finally journalist, starting to write accounts and outlines of stories. It ends up becoming the collaborator of a local German newspaper then of a Tabloïde for which it writes news or serialized stories with success, generally police or burlesques.

It then starts a career of scenario writer auprès in particular of Fred Zinnemann and Robert Siodmak then sign a pretty success: Men Sunday . The arrival of Adolf Hitler with the capacity the constrained one with the exile. Party a time with Paris, it carries out a film with Danielle Darrieux and Pierre Mingand: Bad seed . The threat Nazi obliges it to emigrate once again: it is established with the the United States where it writes scénarii for Howard Hawks and Ernst Lubitsch which leads it to sign a contract with the Paramount. Passed definitively behind the camera, it puts in scene a third film in which Raymond Chandler collaborates: Insurance on the death , which is its first great success. It turns then several Black films then is directed towards the comedy which will be worth its most important successes to him. It directs Marilyn Monroe in Seven Years of reflection and impossible to circumvent the Some like it hot . Billy Wilder made her last films in Europe, like Alfred Hitchcock.

Uncontested Master of the American comedy in the 1950 and 1960, the scenario writer knew to impose his style of Moraliste and Caricaturiste, thanks to scriptes of a frightening effectiveness, illustrated by looked after, at the same time simple and fluid settings in scene, with the antipodes of the formal, visual or narrative audacities and technical prowesses of a Hitchcock or a Orson Welles for example.

Wilder received by twice the Oscars better film and better realizer: in 1946 for the Poison and in 1961 for Garçonnière . The first also was worth the to him Oscar of the best adaptation then the second and Boulevard of the twilight (1950), that of the better original screenplay.

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  • 1929 : Men the dimanch E ( Menschen amndt Sonntag ) of Robert Siodmak with Erwin Splettstosser (scenario writer, 2nd assistant realizer)

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