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Fedora is a 1978 German-French drama film directed by Billy Wilder and starring William Holden and Marthe Keller. The screenplay by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is based on Tom Tryon 's novella in the collection Crowned Heads .
Billy Wilder (/ ˈ w aɪ l d ər /; German:; born Samuel Wilder; June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an American filmmaker and screenwriter. He was born in Sucha Beskidzka , Poland, a town in Austria-Hungary at the time of his birth. [ 1 ]
Mr Wilder and Me is a novel by Jonathan Coe, published in the UK by Viking Books on 5 November 2020. It is a historical novel set in the late 1970s, and tells the story of Hollywood director Billy Wilder's struggles to write, finance and shoot his penultimate film Fedora, as observed through the eyes of a young Greek interpreter. The novel ...
Billy Wilder (1906–2002) was an Austrian filmmaker. Wilder initially pursued a career in journalism after being inspired by an American newsreel. [ 1 ] He worked for the Austrian magazine Die Bühne and the newspaper Die Stunde in Vienna, and later for the German newspapers Berliner Nachtausgabe , and Berliner Börsen-Courier in Berlin. [ 2 ]
Billy Wilder wrote and directed the film Fedora (1978), which takes its title from the female lead character played by Marthe Keller. In addition, fedoras are a strong theme throughout the picture. Most of Wilder's film's feature fedoras prominently in promotional materials as well as in the finished films. [43]
Fedora: Billy Wilder: Marthe Keller, William Holden, Hildegard Knef: West German–French co-production [5] Fire's Share: Étienne Périer: Michel Piccoli, Claudia Cardinale, Jacques Perrin — [6] Get Out Your Handkerchiefs: Bertrand Blier: Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, Carole Laure: Comedy: Belgian–French co-production [7] The Green ...
Pages in category "Films directed by Billy Wilder" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. ... Fedora (1978 film) Five Graves to Cairo;
She also acted alongside William Holden in Billy Wilder's 1978 romantic drama Fedora. After 1978, Keller did more work in European cinema than in Hollywood. Her later films include Dark Eyes (1987), with Marcello Mastroianni .