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Billy Wilder — the making of a great film director

19 June 2021

9:00 AM

19 June 2021

9:00 AM

Billy Wilder on Assignment Edited by Noah Isenberg, translated by Shelley Frisch

Princeton University Press, pp.224, 20

Before Billy Wilder became the celebrated director of films such as Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot and The Apartment he was a busy jobbing screenwriter at UFA Studios in Berlin in the early 1930s, writing or co-writing the scenarios to more than 20 movies. And before that, he was a journalist.

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