I had no idea that Jack Lemmon was so charming. You can tell that they were truly friends and had so much respect for each other! I see why Jack Lemmon did so many pictures with him! The way he describes Billy Wilder’s writing and directing makes me wanna go to Amazon Prime and buy all his movies! I think one of the comments said there are some books? So happy that I found this video! Thank you! 👍
I couldn't agree more with the words of Jack Lemmon. If you want to know everything about technique - watch Hichcock. If you want to know everything about human behavior - watch Billy Wilder. Boy, was he great!
TO ME MY 2 FAVORITE BILLY WILDER FILMS ARE: FOREIGN AFFAIR AND Witness for the Prosecution.BOTH STARING MARLENE DIETRICH..FOREIGN AFFAIR IS A COMEDY/DRAMA/SUSPENSE.LOL WITNESS WAS NOMINATED FOR 6 OSCARS AMAZEING FILMS BRILLANT ...IF U HAVENT SEEN IT WATCH IT...THE ENDING WILL BLOW U AWAY U WILL WANNA WATCH IT AGAIN JUST TO SEE IF U MISSWD OR NOTICED ANYTHING ONCE U FIND OUT THE ENDING!
Read or heard that he had to escape from Nazi Germany.... wonder how much talent was lost when others didn't make it out? Plays not written, compositions not performed...songs not sung because of a mad dictator.
Did Wilder write the scripts? English was his second language. Could he have written the dialogue for Walter Matthau in "The Fortune Cookie"? He was a great director but that would have been an amazing accomplishment.
Of course he wrote the scripts. He was probably the greatest screenwriter of all time (although he liked working with collaborators). On the subject of his English: Soon after immigrating, he actually commissioned a group of “slang speakers” he had met randomly, in order to learn how Americans actually spoke. Not only did this inform his style of dialogue, it actually became the subject matter of a comedy he wrote for Howard Hawks called “Ball of Fire.” Gary Cooper plays a linguist, though, not an immigrant writer.
J Z O yeah ...'Ball Of Fire' 🏆💎...Starring Gary Cooper⭐😃😊🏆🗿 and Barbara Stanwyck⭐🔥🗿🏆🤓😍😅A Fantastic film...Two Legends lighting up the screen .. Ms. Stanwyck was a smoking hot fireball⭐😍🙂❤ in this classic film .. And it's Gary Cooper being a little 'Walter Mitty' - like in this charming , funny ( and scary ) romantic comedy drama... This whole film is a 👍👍💎🏆💯➕ ➕ ➕⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐❗
Lucky? Everyone who lives in the first world has a 1 in 1 chance of seeing the Apartment for the first time if they want to. I hardly call that luck. :|
In a book about him, Wilder gave nonstop praise for Jack Lemmon's work.
Loved his movies and Jack Lemmon's performances!
I had no idea that Jack Lemmon was so charming. You can tell that they were truly friends and had so much respect for each other! I see why Jack Lemmon did so many pictures with him! The way he describes Billy Wilder’s writing and directing makes me wanna go to Amazon Prime and buy all his movies! I think one of the comments said there are some books? So happy that I found this video! Thank you! 👍
Such a great man; he's made some of the best films I've ever seen.
That was lovely, thank you.
Wilder was a visionary , big picture thinker who understood the times and was coming . Love his work!
And Jack, an incredible actor! A wonderful sweet gorgeous soul, loved his movies💕
man was one of the finest artist to exist in this planet.
Billy Wilder was involved in the writing of Double Indemnity with Raymond Chandler.
Too true, and I know it's a little "PSA", but The Lost Weekend is certainly up there as one of my favourite Wilder pics.
The Fortune Cookie is under appreciated.
I couldn't agree more with the words of Jack Lemmon. If you want to know everything about technique - watch Hichcock. If you want to know everything about human behavior - watch Billy Wilder. Boy, was he great!
thank you
TO ME MY 2 FAVORITE BILLY WILDER FILMS ARE: FOREIGN AFFAIR AND Witness for the Prosecution.BOTH STARING MARLENE DIETRICH..FOREIGN AFFAIR IS A COMEDY/DRAMA/SUSPENSE.LOL WITNESS WAS NOMINATED FOR 6 OSCARS AMAZEING FILMS BRILLANT ...IF U HAVENT SEEN IT WATCH IT...THE ENDING WILL BLOW U AWAY U WILL WANNA WATCH IT AGAIN JUST TO SEE IF U MISSWD OR NOTICED ANYTHING ONCE U FIND OUT THE ENDING!
@trajan75 Basically, English was his third language, second was Polish and Eastern Yiddish was his mother tongue.
I guess German was his mother tongue.
He spoke German was Austrian.
Read or heard that he had to escape from Nazi Germany.... wonder how much talent was lost when others didn't make it out? Plays not written, compositions not performed...songs not sung because of a mad dictator.
His mother perished in the death camps.
Hard to believe this tribute didn't mention "Double Indemnity", Wilder's best movie IMO.
Did Wilder write the scripts? English was his second language. Could he have written the dialogue for Walter Matthau in "The Fortune Cookie"? He was a great director but that would have been an amazing accomplishment.
Of course he wrote the scripts. He was probably the greatest screenwriter of all time (although he liked working with collaborators). On the subject of his English: Soon after immigrating, he actually commissioned a group of “slang speakers” he had met randomly, in order to learn how Americans actually spoke. Not only did this inform his style of dialogue, it actually became the subject matter of a comedy he wrote for Howard Hawks called “Ball of Fire.” Gary Cooper plays a linguist, though, not an immigrant writer.
J Z O yeah ...'Ball Of Fire' 🏆💎...Starring Gary Cooper⭐😃😊🏆🗿 and Barbara Stanwyck⭐🔥🗿🏆🤓😍😅A Fantastic film...Two Legends lighting up the screen .. Ms. Stanwyck was a smoking hot fireball⭐😍🙂❤ in this classic film .. And it's Gary Cooper being a little 'Walter Mitty' - like in this charming , funny ( and scary ) romantic comedy drama... This whole film is a 👍👍💎🏆💯➕ ➕ ➕⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐❗
Lucky? Everyone who lives in the first world has a 1 in 1 chance of seeing the Apartment for the first time if they want to. I hardly call that luck. :|
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