After stringing together three hit movies in a row based on Broadway plays, Billy Wilder decided to pivot to new territory: a biopic of the first man to complete a solo transatlantic flight. On one hand, Charles Lindbergh was an American myth whose life story was ripe for Hollywood treatment. On the other, he was a Nazi sympathizer, and Wilder was a Jew who'd lost much of his family in the Holocaust. The project was fraught with difficulties from the start--and that was before star Jimmy Stewart arrived on set...
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One, Two, Three
It's 1961, and Hollywood is changing. Foreign films are wooing critics and audie
The Apartment
By 1960, nearly twenty years into his career as a writer/director, Billy Wilder
Troma, Lloyd Kaufman, and Billy Wilder
As the co-founder of Troma Entertainment, Lloyd Kaufman has blazed a singular tr
Some Like It Hot
With his new writing partner at his side and a parade of hit movies trailing beh
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