We will watch on Zoom and discuss films written or directed by Billy Wilder, one of the most versatile filmmakers of classical Hollywood cinema, nominated for 21 Academy Awards and winner of seven. Genres and films are expected to include:
COMEDY: Ninotchka (Greta Garbo & Melvyn Douglas), Ball of Fire (Gary Cooper & Barbara Stanwyck), Some Like it Hot (Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, & Jack Lemmon), One, Two, Three (James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, & Arlene Francis), and The Apartment (Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, & Fred MacMurray);
WAR: Five Graves to Cairo (Erich von Stroheim & Anne Baxter), and Stalag 17 (William Holden, Otto Preminger, & Peter Graves);
FILM NOIR: Double Indemnity (Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, & Edward G. Robinson) and The Lost Weekend (Ray Milland & Jane Wyman); and
DRAMA: Witness for the Prosecution (Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, & Charles Laughton).
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