After stringing together three hit movies based on Broadway plays, Billy Wilder pivoted to new territory: a biopic of Charles Lindbergh. On one hand, 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 family in the Holocaust. The project was fraught with difficulties from the start--and that was before Jimmy Stewart arrived on set...
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Kiss Me, Stupid
When a star singer stops for gas in small-town Nevada, two struggling songwriter
Interview with Paul Diamond, son of Billy Wilder’s writing partner, I. A. L. Diamond
Paul Diamond knew Billy Wilder well—his dad was Wilder’s writing partner, I. A.
Irma La Douce
Billy Wilder’s last film, a savage satire of capitalism, was a flop. With Irma l
One, Two, Three
It's 1961, and Hollywood is changing. Foreign films are wooing critics and audie
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