Ebook {Epub PDF} On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder by Ed Sikov

 · Ed Sikov's book, On Sunset Boulevard, The Life And Times of Billy Wilder, tells a classic Hollywood tale of rags to riches - and of self-invention. Sikov has unearthed many new facts and dutifully sets the record straight on the false tales Wilder spread about himself.  · Overview. On Sunset Boulevard, originally published in , describes the life of acclaimed filmmaker Billy Wilder (), director of such classics as Sunset Boulevard, The Lost Weekend, The Seven Year Itch, and Sabrina. This definitive biography takes the reader on a fast-paced journey from Billy Wilder's birth outside of Krakow in to Vienna, where he grew up, to Berlin, Brand: University Press of Mississippi. "Sikov's unauthorized biography of moviemaker Billy Wilder is better written than Kevin Lally's Wilder Times (). Otherwise, it is remarkably similar, despite Lally's greater access to Wilder (Sikov confesses he shared Wilder's reaction to the prospect of interviewing for the book: 'the idea made him want to throw up')/5(39).

On Sunset Boulevard, originally published in , describes the life of acclaimed filmmaker Billy Wilder (), director of such classics as Sunset Boulevard, The Lost Weekend, The Seven Year Itch, and Sabrina. This definitive biography takes the reader on a fast-paced journey from Billy Wilder's birth outside of Krakow in to Vienna, where he grew up, to Berlin, where he moved as a. On Sunset Boulevard, originally published in , describes the life of acclaimed filmmaker Billy Wilder (), director of such classics as Sunset Boulevard, The Lost Weekend, The Seven Year Itch, and www.doorway.ru definitive biography takes the reader on a fast-paced journey from Billy Wilder's birth outside of Krakow in to Vienna, where he grew up, to Berlin, where he moved as a. ON SUNSET BOULEVARD The Life and Times of Billy Wilder. By Ed Sikov. Illustrated. pp. New York: Hyperion. $

By ANDREW SARRIS. ON SUNSET BOULEVARD. The Life and Times of Billy Wilder. By Ed Sikov. Illustrated. pp. New York: Hyperion. $ he epigraph to the preface of Ed Sikov's finely wrought and. Ed Sikov has taught at Haverford College, Colorado College, and Columbia University. He is the author of seven books, including On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder, Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis, Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers, and Laughing Hysterically: American Screen Comedy of the s. He lives in New York City. On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder. On Sunset Boulevard.: Ed Sikov. Hyperion, - Biography Autobiography - pages. 2 Reviews. The life of screenwriter and.