# Sunset Boulevard - Paperback

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by **Billy Wilder** (Author), **Jeffrey Meyers** (Introduction by)

_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.

### Author Biography

**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.

**Number of Pages:** 143

**Dimensions:** 0.41 x 9.24 x 5.9 IN

**Publication Date:** June 24, 1999

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