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Billy Wilder (22 June 1906 – 27 March 2002) was an Austro-Hungarian 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).
Wilder became a screenwriter in the late 1920s while living in Berlin. After the rise of Nazi Party, Wilder, who was Jewish, left for Paris, where he made his directorial debut. He relocated to Hollywood in 1933, and in 1939 he had a hit when he co-wrote the screenplay to the screwball comedy Ninotchka. Wilder established his directorial reputation after helming Double Indemnity (1944), a film noir he co-wrote with mystery novelist Raymond Chandler. Wilder earned the Best Director and Best Screenplay Academy Awards for the adaptation of a Charles R. Jackson story The Lost Weekend, about alcoholism. In 1950, Wilder co-wrote and directed the critically acclaimed Sunset Boulevard.
Death Mills, or Die Todesmhlen, is a 1945 American propaganda documentary film directed by Billy Wilder and produced by the United States Department of War. It was intended for German audiences to educate them about the atrocities committed by the Nazi regime.
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Actors: Randy Tobin (actor), Maria Honrado (editor), Maria Honrado (producer), Maria Honrado (writer), Maria Honrado (director), Terry Adams (composer), Nick Ligonis (producer), Brenda Lamberty (actress), Grady Miller (writer), Grady Miller (writer), Jonathan Gross (composer), Space (actor), Space (actor), Patricio Solis (actor),
Plot: Billy Wilder, an adult film director, finds himself alone after losing his sight during a bizarre incident on the set of his last movie. Blind and unable to work, Billy spends his days stumbling around the house alone. In a ploy for companionship , Billy posts an ad for a foreign maid. Billy hires Rosa, a good Catholic girl in desperate need of work to avoid eviction.
Keywords: blind, surrealismActors: Gregory Peck (actor), Tom Rack (actor), Eric McCormack (actor), James Bradford (actor), Steve Adams (actor), Mel Ferrer (actor), Richard Jutras (actor), Noel Burton (actor), Tony Calabretta (actor), Mark Camacho (actor), Humphrey Bogart (actor), William Holden (actor), Keir Dullea (actor), Vlasta Vrana (actor), Sam Stone (actor),
Plot: Biographic made-for-TV movie of the life of one of Hollywood's most famous actreses: Audrey Hepburn, spaning from her early childhood to the 1960's which details her life as Dutch overachieving ballerina, coming to grips with her parents divorce and enduring five hard years of living in Nazi occupied Holland during World War II. Audrey then settles in the USA where she tries to make it big as a movie actress and the emotional trials that follow her with it.
Keywords: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, actress, anorexia, baby, ballerina, based-on-true-story, behind-the-scenes, broadway-manhattan-new-york-cityActors: Ashley Judd (actress), Marianne Muellerleile (actress), Beth Grant (actress), Earl Boen (actor), John Rubinstein (actor), Edith Fields (actress), Lindsay Crouse (actress), David Dukes (actor), Jeffrey Combs (actor), Allan Corduner (actor), Peter Dobson (actor), Scott Menville (actor), Ron Rifkin (actor), Christopher Young (composer), Mira Sorvino (actress),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: Paul A. Kaufman (actor), Paul A. Kaufman (producer), Paul A. Kaufman (director),
Genres: ,Actors: Flóra Kádár (actress), Cecília Esztergályos (actress), Lajos Balázsovits (actor), András Bálint (actor), Cecília Esztergályos (actress), László Csákányi (actor), Péter Balázs (actor), Lajos Balázsovits (actor), John Huston (actor), János Kovács (actor), András Bálint (actor), Lajos Balázsovits (actor), András Bálint (actor), László Vajda (actor), Hédi Temessy (actress),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Sheree North (actress), Dalene Young (writer), Viveca Lindfors (actress), Tracey Gold (actress), Norman Mailer (writer), Lawrence Schiller (producer), Lance Rosen (actor), Richard Basehart (actor), Frank Pesce (actor), Michael Fairman (actor), Alex Romero (actor), Catherine Hicks (actress), John Ireland (actor), Jack Arnold (director), William Goldstein (composer),
Plot: The story of how Norma Jean, once an orphan in Hollywood California, becomes Marilyn Monroe, the movie star and celebrity. The movie begins with Norma Jean as a child and ends with the mysterious way she dies. Throughout the movie, we see the highlights and lowlights of her career, including the parts of her private life not widely known.
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