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Blogathon

Happy Birthday Billy! The BILLY WILDER BLOGATHON is here…

“An actor entering through the door, you’ve got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you’ve got a situation.” —Billy Wilder Filmmaker Billy Wilder was a genius because he looked through the camera lens and typed words on the keys with a different perspective than most. His skew was wittier, and richer in layers of character development. Today we celebrate him with this blogathon … Continue reading Happy Birthday Billy! The BILLY WILDER BLOGATHON is here…

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STALAG 17 (1953)

Billy Wilder was an Austrian born filmmaker/writer/director… and all-around cinema genius. Born Samuel Wilder on June 22, 1906 in Sucha, Austria, Wilder went from being a Viennese reporter to a free-lance writer in Berlin where he started working on film scripts in 1929. As Hitler rose to power, Wilder moved to Paris to direct his first film, as he feared his Jewish ancestry would threaten … Continue reading STALAG 17 (1953)

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