{"product_id":"conversations-with-wilder-9780375709678","title":"Conversations with Wilder","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Conversations with Wilder  Hollywoods legendary and famously elusive director Billy Wilder agrees for the first time to talk extensively about his life and work.  Here  in an extraordinary book with more than 650 black-and-white photographs -- including film posters  stills  grabs  and never-before-seen pictures from Wilders own collection -- the ninety-three-year-old icon talks to Cameron Crowe  one of todays best-known writer-directors  about thirty years at the very heart of Hollywood  and about screenwriting and camera work  set design and stars  his peers and their movies  the studio system and films today. In his distinct voice we hear Wilders inside view on his collaborations with such stars as Barbara Stanwyck  Gary Cooper  Marilyn Monroe  Jack Lemmon  Tony Curtis  William Holden  Audrey Hepburn  and Greta Garbo (he was a writer at MGM during the making of Ninotchka. Here are Wilders sharp and funny behind-the-scenes stories about the making of A Foreign Affair  Double Indemnity  Sunset Boulevard  Love in the Afternoon  Some Like It Hot  The Apartment  and Ace in the Hole  among many others. Wilder is ever mysterious  but Crowe gets him to speak candidly on Stanwyck: \"She knew the script  everybodys lines  never a fault  never a mistake\"; on Cary Grant: \"I had Cary Grant in mind for four of my pictures . . . slipped through my net every time\"; on the \"Lubitsch Touch\": \"It was the elegant use of the super-joke.\" Wilder also remembers his early years in Vienna  working as a journalist in Berlin  rooming with Peter Lorre at the Chateau Marmont -- always with the same dry wit  tough-minded romanticism  and elegance that are the hallmarks of Wilders films. This book is a classic of Hollywood history and lore.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45279897649205,"sku":"ByrdShop_0375709673","price":79.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780375709678.jpg?v=1780615500","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/conversations-with-wilder-9780375709678","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}