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Sunset Boulevard Paperback - 1999

by Billy Wilder; Introduction by Jeffrey Meyers

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"Sunset Boulevard" (1950) is one of the most famous films in the history of Hollywood, and perhaps no film better represents Hollywood's vision of itself. This facsimile edition of the screenplay provides intriguing background information about Wilder and the film's casting and production.

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Sunset Boulevard (1950) is one of the most famous films in the history of Hollywood, and perhaps no film better represents Hollywood's vision of itself. Billy Wilder collaborated on the screenplay with the very able Charles Brackett, and with D. M. Marshman Jr., who later joined the team. Together they created a film both allusive and literate, with Hollywood's worst excesses and neuroses laid out for all to see. After viewing Sunset Boulevard Louis B. Mayer exclaimed: "We should throw this Wilder out of town!" The New York Times, however, gave the movie a rave review, praising "that rare blend of pungent writing, expert acting, masterly direction, and unobtrusively artistic photography." The film was nominated for Best Picture, and Wilder won an Academy Award for Best Story and Best Screenplay.

This facsimile edition of Sunset Boulevard makes it possible to get as much pleasure from reading the highly intelligent screenplay as from seeing the film. Jeffrey Meyers's introduction provides an intriguing array of background details about Wilder, the film's casting and production, and the lives of those connected to what has become a classic.

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  • Title Sunset Boulevard
  • Author Billy Wilder; Introduction by Jeffrey Meyers
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edit
  • Pages 143
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
  • Publication date 1999-06-24
  • ISBN 9780520218550 / 0520218558
  • Weight 0.49 lbs (0.22 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.24 x 5.9 x 0.41 in (23.47 x 14.99 x 1.04 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1950's
  • Category Pop Arts / Pop Culture
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98-33438
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.437

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  • Ingram Advance, 06/01/1999, Page 111

About the author

Billy Wilder (1906-2002) was born near Cracow in Polish Galicia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His first career was journalism, but he soon moved into the German film industry as a scriptwriter. When Hitler came to power, Wilder fled to Paris and came to Hollywood in 1934. His fifty-year career there--as both director and cowriter--was one of astonishing versatility and genius, encompassing films about war, murder, alcoholism, Hollywood, sensational journalism, prison camps, criminal trials, love stories, and romance as comedy. Billy Wilder wasn nominated for twenty-one Academy Awards and won six Oscars. Jeffrey Meyers is an American biographer, literary, art and film critic. He lives in Berkeley, California.
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