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William Wyler Wyler in 1945 Born Willi Wyler (1902-07-01) July 1, 1902 Mülhausen, German Empire Died July 27, 1981 (1981-07-27) (aged 79) Beverly Hills, California, U.S. Resting place Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California, U.S. Occupations Film director producer Years active 1925–1970 Spouses Margaret Sullavan (m. 1934; div. 1936) Margaret Tallichet (m. 1938) Children 5 Relatives ...
For his work Wyler was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Directors Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award, and the American Film Institute Life Achievement Award. Wyler went on to win the Academy Award for Best Director three times, those being for Mrs. Miniver (1942), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), and Ben-Hur (1959 ...
The film's iconic tribute to the sacrifices on the home front, as movingly directed by William Wyler, did much to rally America's support for its British allies. [15] Film critic Manny Farber writing in The New Republic registered this response to the picture: Mrs. Miniver is about an English family which is prissy and fake like all screen ...
William Wyler circa 1945. William Wyler was a Swiss-German-American director and producer.. He is regarded as one of the most distinguished and versatile filmmakers for Classical Hollywood cinema, directing films during the silent era as well as the sound era, and in both black-and-white and technicolor film.
Standing (left to right): Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright; seated at piano: Hoagy Carmichael The Best Years of Our Lives (also known as Glory for Me and Home Again) is a 1946 American drama film directed by William Wyler and starring Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo and Harold Russell.
Morgan's crew had not flown all of its missions together. Captain Verinis had originally been Morgan's co-pilot at the beginning of their combat tour but had become a "first pilot" (aircraft commander) in his own right on December 30, 1942, after which he flew 16 missions as commander of a replacement B-17 he named Connecticut Yankee after his home state.
Thunderbolt is a 1947 film directed by William Wyler and John Sturges which documented the American aerial operations of Operation Strangle in World War II, when flyers of the Twelfth Air Force based on Corsica successfully impeded Axis supply lines to the Gustav Line and Anzio beachhead.
Margaret Tallichet, who played Jane, married film director William Wyler on October 23, 1938, at the home of actor Walter Huston [6] and continued to make films, including Stranger on the Third Floor in 1940. She made two more films, then retired from acting.