William A. Wellman or William Wellman (born William Augustus Wellman the February 29th 1896 with Brookline, Massachusetts - December 9th 1975 with Los Angeles) is a Réalisateur of American cinema . It is especially known for its films the Wings ( Wings ) and a star was born .

Biography

Having served as ambulance man then pilot in the Flotilla Fayette, it attempts to show in its Film S of war the reality of the face more than to idealize the Héroïsme soldiers. Even preoccupation with a truth in its Western S, its kind of predilection, where the action is often forsaken with the profit of scenes where day the tensions of a group or the psychological dimension of the characters are done. Null free violence finally: Wellman “often omits” to film a brawl in its entirety, preferring to underline the asides of them, with a great sobriety of means. Its will to show reality leads it to prefer the natural decorations or to be freed from the conditions of turning imposed by its producers: for the Wings ( Wings ), it requires to await the arrival of cloud in a perfectly blue sky to return more the aerial combats seizing.

Scenario writer “sensitive, opened to the social injustices” (according to Jean Tulard), more than engaged scenario writer, it carries out The Oxbow Incident (1943) which denounces the Lynchage during one time when the Racial segregation with respect to the Noir S doubles setting with the round of applause of the Japanese suspected of collaboration, like Wild Boys off the Road , film painful on the violence generated by the Grande depression.

Several of its Western S, finally, testify to its will to show the essential contribution of the Femme in the history of the United States. In the abandoned City , Anne Baxter holds head with a band of Hors-la-loi, in Westward the Women , 200 women displaced (unmarried mothers, prostitutes…) cross the United States and face with courage and dignity of multiple tests to marry colonists with half-savages who represent their last chance of rehabilitation. If its career were crowned many successes ( the Wings and a star was born , inter alia), it finishes on a failure, with Lafayette Escadrille (1958), semi-autobiographical film where it lends its voice to that of the narrator.

A few days before its death, he entrusted to his son to have lived “the life of one hundred men”.

Called “Wild Bill” with Hollywood as much because of its engagement during the Great War that for its behavior and its requirements on a turning, Wellman was a scenario writer before very concerned of Réalisme.

Partial catalog of films

Realizer

Actor

  • 1919 : Evangeline , of Raoul Walsh: British lieutenant
  • 1919: The Knickerbocker Buckaroo , of Albert Parker: Henry
  • 1927: the Wings ( Wings ) - (Caméo)
  • 1958: It is the war ( Lafayette Escadrille ): Narrator
  • 1996: Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick - Images of files

Scenario writer

  • 1937 : a star was born ( has Star Is Born )
  • 1937: the Last Gangster ( The Last Gangster ), of Edward Ludwig
  • 1954: a star was born ( has Star Is Born ), of George Cukor - According to her history
  • 1958: It is the war ( Lafayette Escadrille ) - According to its history
  • 1976: a star was born ( has Star is Born ), of Frank Pierson - According to its history

Producer

  • 1928 : Pilots of dead the ( The Legion off the Condemned )
  • 1939: Beautiful Gesture
  • 1947: Magic Town
  • 1958 : It is the war ( Lafayette Escadrille )

Anecdotes

  • Willam Wellman returned from the war with several medals and wounds: it had a money plate screwed in its cranium all its life.
  • Taking into account the difficulties encountered on the turning of the Wings , the producers of the Paramount did not invite the realizer to the first of film, nor even with following projections in spite of its great success.
  • With leaving the projection of the Strange Incident , Orson Welles declared that the spectators “had not carried out what they had just seen”.

Rewards

  • 1938 : Nomination Meilleur realizer for a star was born
  • 1950: nomination Better realizer for Bastogne
  • 1955: Nomination Meilleur realizer for Writes in the sky

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