NOUN
- United States filmmaker (born in Austria) whose dark humor infused many of the films he made (1906-2002)
How To Use Billy Wilder In A Sentence
- My favourite comedy is a toss-up between City Lights and Billy Wilder's Kiss Me, Stupid.
- The term noir was coined in 1946 by French critics reviewing a group of American thrillers, including Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity and Otto Preminger's Laura, both from 1944, to mark a phenomenon they thought new to American cinema, a "harsh," "true to life" quality, a mood of "pessimism and despair. Day into Noir
- Another favorite (am I grossing you out yet?), stewed lingen (lungs), kind of chewy, or Billy Wilder's favorite, gehenen, brains ... fried with scrambled eggs at Kate Mantilini, which they served until he died. Jay Weston: The Atkins "Schmaltz" Diet: Memories of Jewish Food!
- The cigarette in the matchbook is a time bomb technique I remember seeing in the Billy Wilder movie 'Stalag 17'! Inside TV Blog
- It made its presence felt in turn-of-the-century vaudevilles and was crucial to many Hollywood comedies in the years surrounding World War II, particularly the films of Ernst Lubitsch and Billy Wilder.
