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Billy Wilder

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Noun1.Billy Wilder - United States filmmaker (born in Austria) whose dark humor infused many of the films he made (1906-2002)


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Film historians remember a grocery-store scene in "Double Indemnity" in which director Billy Wilder had Green Giant vegetables facing the screen while other products were faced backwards.
Audrey Hepburn is far too young for ageing Humphrey Bogart, but it works anyway, probably because of the sparkling screenplay by director Billy Wilder with Samuel Taylor and Ernest Lehman.
Byline: The Register-Guard Hitchcock and Wilder films featured at DIVA The "Mystery of Film Noir" seminar continues on Sunday with films by Alfred Hitchcock and Billy Wilder.
 
 
 
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