Together they created a film both allusive and literate, with Hollywood's worst excesses and neuroses laid out for all to see. Billy Wilder collaborated on the screenplay with the very able Charles Brackett, and with D.
Brown, Jack Lemmon, Billy Wilder (back right), 1959, rehearsing THE FRONT PAGE, Carol Burnett, director Billy Wilder, Jon Korkes, on-set, 1974 THE APARTMENT, director Billy Wilder, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Lemmon on set, 1960 SOME LIKE IT HOT, Tony Curtis, Billy Wilder, 1959 THE FRONT PAGE, Jack Lemmon, Director Billy Wilder on set, 1974 THE APARTMENT, Billy Wilder, Jack Lemmon, 1960, tray SUNSET BOULEVARD, director Billy Wilder, Gloria Swanson, Cecil B.Sunset Boulevard (1950) is one of the most famous films in the history of Hollywood, and perhaps no film better represents Hollywood's vision of itself. LOUIS, director Billy Wilder, on-set, 1957 SOME LIKE IT HOT, Tony Curtis, Marilyn Monroe, Billy Wilder (w/ film crew), 1959 SUNSET BOULEVARD, from left: Gloria Swanson, director Billy Wilder, on set, 1950 sunsetblvd1950-fsct24(sunsetblvd1950-fsct24) SOME LIKE IT HOT, Joe E. Photos FOREIGN AFFAIR, A, Director Billy Wilder, John Lund, Marlene Dietrich, 1948 SUNSET BOULEVARD, Director Billy Wilder, Gloria Swanson, 1950 FIVE GRAVES TO CAIRO, director Billy Wilder, Erich von Stroheim on set, 1943 FIVE GRAVES TO CAIRO, director Billy Wilder, Erich von Stroheim on set, 1943 THE SPIRIT OF ST. Wilder lived on as one of classic Hollywood's most accomplished directors. Diamond, and directed his greatest achievement, "The Apartment" (1960), in partnership with the latter. Wilder had long collaborations with writers Charles Brackett and I.A.L. After the great war drama "Stalag 17" (1953), Wilder created a variation on the comedy of manners and seduction in films such as "Sabrina" (1954) and "Love in the Afternoon" (1957), mixed black comedy and farce for "Some Like It Hot" (1959) - his most entertaining movie - and alienated Hollywood with the cruel and haunting "Sunset Boulevard" (1950).
With the help of co-writer Raymond Chandler, he directed a masterpiece of film noir, "Double Indemnity" (1944), which he followed with "The Lost Weekend" (1945), a social drama that delivered an uncompromising look at alcoholism. First and foremost a writer, Billy Wilder became, by his own admission, a director in an effort to protect his scripts from directors who he felt misinterpreted his work.Wilder operated with assurance across all genres, compiling an impressive body of work featuring dialogue over character - its wit and astringent bite setting his oeuvre refreshingly apart from mainstream Hollywood fare.
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