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First Name
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Samuel Wilder
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The Viennese Pixie
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Film Noir
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Friends
Ernst Lubitsch (was also his idol and mentor. Wilder always kept a sign hanging in his office that asked, "How would Lubitsch do it?"),
Charles Brackett,
Jack Lemmon,
Jay Livingston,
Ray Evans,
William Holden,
Sam Spiegel,
Robert Capa,
Ray Milland,
George Cukor,
Mae West,
Fred Zinnemann,
Robert Siodmak,
Tony Curtis,
Marlene Dietrich,
Olivia De Havilliand,
Gary Cooper,
Barbara Stanwyck,
Howard Hawks,
Ginger Rogers,
Leland Hayward
Biography
Billy Wilder (22 June 1906 – 27 March 2002) was an Austrian-born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. Wilder is one of only five people to have won Academy Awards as producer, director, and writer for the same film (The Apartment).
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