by Maurice Zolotow · Limelight · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780879100704
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«Billy Wilder in Hollywood» is the biography of Billy Wilder written by Maurice Zolotow, published by Limelight in paperback (396 pages, in English).
The biography follows Billy Wilder from his beginnings in Germany, where he was a dance companion, to his consecration in Hollywood as an award-winning director and screenwriter. It includes testimonies from collaborators and curiosities such as Mae West being the first choice for Norma Desmond in «Sunset Boulevard», with Mary Pickford as second.
With a foreword by Jack Lemmon. The cover reproduces a collage of scenes from his films. The work was originally published in 1977; this edition is from 2004.
For readers interested in biographies of filmmakers and in the history of classic Hollywood.
