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Caption: Directors Group, Nov. 1972. George Cukor Hosts a party for Luis Bunuel. Back Row from left: Robert Mulligan, William Wyler, George Cukor, Robert Wise, Jean-Claude Carriere, and Serge Silverman. Front Row from left: Billy Wilder, George Stevens, Luis Bunuel, Alfred Hitchcock, and Rouben Mamoulin.
About Samuel Wilder
Writer, Director, Producer
Born: June 22, 1906
Star sign: Cancer
Height: 5' 11" (1.8 m)
Known for: Some Like It Hot (1959), Sunset Blvd. (1950), The Apartment (1960), Double Indemnity (1944)
Source: IMDB
Originally planning to become a lawyer, Billy Wilder abandoned that career in favor of working as a reporter for a Viennese newspaper, using this experience to move to Berlin, where he worked for the city's largest tabloid. He broke into films as a screenwriter in 1929, and wrote scripts for many German films until Adolf Hitler came to power in ...
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