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  • Billy Wilder on Assignment

    Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna

    by Billy Wilder ...
    Translated by Shelley Frisch ...
    A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, chosen by Tom Stoppard**"A revelation."—Marc Weingarten, Washington PostAcclaimed film director Billy Wilder’s early writings—brilliantly translated into English for the first time**Before Billy Wilder became the screenwriter and director of iconic films like Sunset Boulevard and Some Like It Hot, he worked as a freelance reporter, first in Vienna and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Sunset Boulevard

    by Billy Wilder ...
    Sunset Boulevard (1950) is one of the most famous films in the history of Hollywood, and perhaps no film better represents Hollywood's vision of itself. Billy Wilder collaborated on the screenplay with the very able Charles Brackett, and with D. M. Marshman Jr., who later joined the team. Together they created a film both allusive and literate, with Hollywood's worst excesses and neuroses laid out ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

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    Screen Directors' Playhouse

    by Billy Wilder, Tay Garnett, Robert Siodmak, George Marshall ...
    Narrated by Marlene Dietrich, Bette Davis, Jimmy Stewart, Lucille Ball, Bob Hope, Old Time Radio ...
    Series series Screen Directors' Playhouse

    Unabridged

    9 hours 53 min

    During the late 1940's and early 1950's, several different radio programs brought in Hollywood stars to reprise their performances from popular films. Among them, Screen Directors' Playhouse offered something that no other show had: the directors. Imagine, if you will, listening to a radio play of A Foreign Affair and then hearing Marlene Dietrich and director Billy Wilder share their thoughts on ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Marlene

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    by C. W. Gortner ...
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  • The Great Movies

    by Roger Ebert ...
    America’s most trusted and best-known film critic Roger Ebert presents one hundred brilliant essays on some of the best movies ever made.Roger Ebert, the famed film writer and critic, wrote biweekly essays for a feature called "The Great Movies," in which he offered a fresh and fervent appreciation of a great film. The Great Movies collects one hundred of these essays, each one of them a gem of ... Read more

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    Translated by Shaun Whiteside, Jamie Lee Searle ...
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    by Stephen Rebello ...
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  • The Great Movies II

    by Roger Ebert ...
    From America's most trusted and highly visible film critic, 100 more brilliant essays on the films that define cinematic greatness.Continuing the pitch-perfect critiques begun in The Great Movies, Roger Ebert's The Great Movies II collects 100 additional essays, each one of them a gem of critical appreciation and an amalgam of love, analysis, and history that will send readers back to films with a ... Read more

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  • The Artificial Silk Girl

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    Before Sex and the City there was Bridget Jones. And before Bridget Jones was The Artificial Silk Girl.In 1931, a young woman writer living in Germany was inspired by Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes to describe pre-war Berlin and the age of cinematic glamour through the eyes of a woman. The resulting novel, The Artificial Silk Girl, became an acclaimed bestseller and a masterwork of German ... Read more

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