Sunset Boulevard

Informationen zum Autor Billy Wilder (1906-2002) was born near Cracow in Polish Galicia! then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His first career was journalism! but he soon moved into the German film industry as a scriptwriter. When Hitler came to power! Wilder fled to Paris and came to Hollywood in 1934. His fifty-year career there—as both director and cowriter—was one of astonishing versatility and genius! encompassing films about war! murder! alcoholism! Hollywood! sensational journalism! prison camps! criminal trials! love stories! and romance as comedy. Billy Wilder wasn nominated for twenty-one Academy Awards and won six Oscars.  Jeffrey Meyers  is an American biographer! literary! art and film critic. He lives in Berkeley! California. Klappentext "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. This facsimile edition of the screenplay provides intriguing background information about Wilder and the film's casting and production. Zusammenfassung "Sunset Boulevard" (1950) is one of the famous films in the history of Hollywood, and perhaps no film better represents Hollywood's vision of itself. This title makes it possible to get as much pleasure from reading the highly intelligent screenplay as from seeing the film.

Product details

• Authors: Billy Wilder, Jeffrey Meyers, Billy Wilder
• Assisted by: Jeffrey Meyers (Introduction)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.06.1999
• EAN: 9780520218550
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21855-0
• No. of pages: 143
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Screenplays, Television scripts & screenplays, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Film Scripts & Screenplays, Film scripts and screenplays, Television screenplays, scripts and performances