Before he came to Hollywood, Billy Wilder had written this story concept years earlier in German, “From A to Z.” He said Thomas Monroe helped him “Americanize it”. Here, his story fully evolves into a screwball comedy with a twist on SNOW WHITE and the SEVEN DWARVES (1937). We see many references to the Disney animated version of the classic fairytale. But this is not … Continue reading A Fairytale Gone Wilder: BALL of FIRE