Description 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.
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Jeffrey Meyers, a renowned biographer, has written many books and articles on modern American, English, and European literature.
He lives in Los Angeles.
Billy Wilder has been nominated for twenty-one Academy Awards and has won six Oscars.
His fifty-year career there--as both director and cowriter--was one of astonishing versatility and genius, encompassing films about war, murder, alcoholism, Hollywood, sensational journalism, prison camps, criminal trials, love stories, and romance as comedy.
When Hitler came to power, Wilder fled to Paris and came to Hollywood in 1934.
His first career was journalism, but he soon moved into the German film industry as a scriptwriter.
About the Author Billy Wilder was born in 1906 near Cracow in Polish Galicia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Jeffrey Meyers\'s introduction provides an intriguing array of background details about Wilder, the film\'s casting and production, and the lives of those connected to what has become a classic.
This facsimile edition of Sunset Boulevard makes it possible to get as much pleasure from reading the highly intelligent screenplay as from seeing the film.
Mayer exclaimed: "We should throw this Wilder out of town " The New York Times, however, gave the movie a rave review, praising "that rare blend of pungent writing, expert acting, masterly direction, and unobtrusively artistic photography." The film was nominated for Best Picture, and Wilder won an Academy Award for Best Story and Best Screenplay.
After viewing Sunset Boulevard Louis B.
Together they created a film both allusive and literate, with Hollywood\'s worst excesses and neuroses laid out for all to see.
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Billy Wilder collaborated on the screenplay with the very able Charles Brackett, and with D.
Description 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
