Description: [HOLLYWOOD, FILM DIRECTORS, ART COLLECTORS, BILLY WILDER]On offer here is a COLLECTION OF 8 TITLES FROM FILM DIRECTOR BILLY WILDER'S PERSONAL LIBRARY. These books were acquired after he passed and his library was sold in parts. Each of these titles is inscribed or has a letter or item laid in related to Wilder. There's even an inscribed business card from his longtime friend Benedict Taschen laid into one of the books. (more to follow) ______________________________Billy Wilder (born Samuel Wilder; June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-born filmmaker and screenwriter. His career in Hollywood spanned five decades, and he is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Classic Hollywood cinema. He received seven Academy Awards (among 21 nominations), a BAFTA Award, the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or and two Golden Globe Awards. Wilder became a screenwriter while living in Berlin. The rise of the Nazi Party and antisemitism in Germany saw him move to Paris. He then moved to Hollywood in 1934, and had a major hit when he, Charles Brackett and Walter Reisch wrote the screenplay for the Academy Award-nominated film Ninotchka (1939). Wilder established his directorial reputation and received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director with the film noir Double Indemnity (1944), based on the novel by James M Cain with a screenplay by Wilder and Raymond Chandler. Wilder won the Best Director and Best Screenplay Academy Awards for The Lost Weekend (1945), which also won the Academy Award for Best Picture.Please email any questions -
Price: 679.99 USD
Location: Beverly Hills, California
End Time: 2024-08-29T06:32:03.000Z
Shipping Cost: 15.88 USD
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Binding: Cloth
Special Attributes: Collector's Edition, Inscribed
Topic: Modern
Original/Facsimile: Original
