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Billy Wilder, American Film Realist
Richard ArmstrongEven comedies like The Seven-Year Itch and Some Like it Hot shine with Wilder's keen perceptions of American life. Billy Wilder, American Film Realist closely examines a selection of Wilder's films from 1941 through 1981.
Conversations with Wilder
Billy WilderReprint. 35,000 first printing. . Here are Wilder's sharp and funny behind-the-scenes stories about the making of A Foreign
On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder
Ed SikovThe Life and Times of Billy Wilder Ed Sikov. www.upress.state.ms.us The University Press of Mississippi is a member of the Association of American University Presses. A version of “The Day I Met God” previously appeared on LitReactor.com, ...
The Wolf Wilder
Katherine RundellFeodora's mother is a wolf wilder, and Feo is a wolf wilder in training. A wolf wilder is the opposite of an animal tamer: it is a person who teaches tamed animals to fend for themselves, and to fight and to run, and to be wary of humans.
Wilder Days
Linda Winstead JonesA WALK ON THE WILDER SIDE… Del Wilder had always been brash, reckless and more than a little dangerous.
Billy Boyle
James R. BennBilly doubts his own abilities, with good reason. A theft and two murders test his investigative powers, but Billy proves to be a better detective than he or anyone else expected. From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights
PreviewIt seems to confirm the development of Reid's drama.7 Primary Sources Works by Graham Reid The Billy Plays: Too Late to Talk to Billy; A Matter ofChoicefor Billy; A Coming to Termsfor Billy; Lorna (London: Faber and Faber, 1987). The Death ...
Cinemascope 3: Hollywood Takes the Plunge
John Howard ReidCharles K. Feldman Group Productions with The Glass Menagerie, financed and released by the Warner Brothers, who insisted ... writer/producer/director Billy Wilder, who had just wound up a twenty-year contract at Paramount with Sabrina.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Christi E. ParkerLaura Ingalls Wilder grew up as a pioneer girl and endured the difficult times in the West. Wilder made important contributions to the West. Other pioneer women contributed as well, including Narcissa Whitman, the first female pioneer.
Close-up on Sunset Boulevard: Billy Wilder, Norma Desmond, ...
Sam StaggsLater, after the pictureopened,Gloria wrote equally gracious letters to thosewhoplugged and reviewed it. A typicalone, to Kate Cameron of theNew York Daily News:“IfIwere to startenumerating my thanksfor all the nice things you' ve written ...
Practicing Medicine in a Black Regiment: The Civil War Diary ...
Burt Green WilderIn his introduction to the volume, Richard M. Reid analyzes Burt Wilder's diary and places it within the context of the war, the experience of African American troops, and Wilder's life and career. RICHARD M. REID is professor of history, ...
Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes
Billy Collins‘Billy Collins is one of my favourite poets in the world’ Carol Ann Duffy Readers will only have to open this book at random to realize the privation a life without Billy Collins has been.
Billy the Kid: Beyond the Grave
W. C. JamesonDid Billy the Kid escape to die in 1950 in Hico Texad? W.C. Jameson analyzes the evidence, including use of new technology to produce a compelling case for Billy's survival.
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Journalist: Writings from the Ozarks
PreviewThis volume collects essays by Wilder that originally appeared in the Missouri Ruralist between 1911 and 1924.
Extreme Prejudice
Wayne KeeseeBill Wilder is devastated when his brother is murdered in North Vietnam. Wilder hunts worldwide for the killer. The final confrontation takes place on Mt. Washington, New Hampshire.
The Billy Goats Gruff
Nigel CroserThree billy goats went up a mountain to find food. A nasty Troll blocked their way. How will the billy goats get past the Troll?
Laughing Hysterically: American Screen Comedy of the 1950s
Ed Sikov'Sikov's work is an engaging quirky exploration of the comedy of the 1950s through the work of four directors- Howard Hawks, billy Wilder, Alfred Hitchcock, and Frank Tashlin...An excellent addition to a neglected area of study.' -Choice
Wilder Boys
Brandon WallaceThey only have his old letters and journal to help them, but they have to make it. It’s a long journey from the suburbs of Pittsburgh to the wilderness of Wyoming; can the Wilder Boys find their father before Bull catches up with them?
Hello, Dolly!
More editionsPearl Bailey in "Hello, Dolly!" with Billy Daniels, book by Michael Stewart, music & lyrics by Jerry Herman, based on the play "The Matchmaker" by Thornton Wilder, original production directed & choreographed by Gower Champion, with Mary ...
Pamela Tiffin: Hollywood to Rome, 1961-1974
Tom LisantiDark-haired 60s cult pop icon Pamela Tiffin debuted in Summer and Smoke (1961) and was a scene-stealing comedienne opposite James Cagney in Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three (1961) before becoming the queen of teenage drive-in movies in State ...
Questions About Angels
Billy CollinsAnnie Proulx admits, "I have never before felt possessive about a poet, but I am fiercely glad that Billy Collins is ours." This special, limited edition celebrates Billy Collins's years as U.S. Poet Laureate.
The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little ...
Wendy McClureFor anyone who has ever wanted to step into the world of a favorite book, here is a pioneer pilgrimage, a tribute to Laura Ingalls Wilder, and a hilarious account of butter-churning obsession.
The Chambers Crossword Dictionary, 3rd edition
Chambers... Warhol (Andy), Warner (Deborah), Warner (Jack), Welles (Orson), Wilder (Billy) , Wilson (Robert), Zanuck (Darryl) Akerman (Chantal), Aldrich (Robert), Asquith ( Anthony), Belasco (David), Benigni (Roberto), Bennett (Alan), Bennett (Michael), ...
Prairie Girl: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder
William AndersonLaura Ingalls Wilder's beloved Little House books chronicle her childhood in the late 1800s on the American frontier.
Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume ...
Laura Ingalls WilderIn Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder: On Life As a Pioneer Woman, Laura tells her readers what it was like to be a pioneer in the early 1900s.
Big Fun With Billy
David LeddickBilly has everything: a buff body, a high-powered New York job, even a beach house in Provincetown.
Billy's Picture
H. A. ReyIs it a puppygoose? A porcuphant? What will Billy do? From the creators of Curious George, Spotty, and Pretzel, this story about art and individuality is back in print after many years.
Keeping Fires Night and Day: Selected Letters of Dorothy ...
Dorothy Canfield FisherThe Ghost in the Little House A Life of Rose Wilder Lane William Holtz Generations of readers have come to know and love Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books. What few people know, however, is that nearly every sentence of those ...
Hero
Mike LupicaThen he died, and the changes began in Billy. What Billy never knew was that his father was no ordinary man-he was a superhero, battling the world's evil. This is a battle that has been waged for generations and that knows no boundaries.
Spirit Hunters
Magne HovdenThe brown haired man, who had entered first, spoke to Eirik, Gunther and Lizzy in English. «My name is Jakob Aasheim.» He pointed at the other man, and the woman. «This is Bill Wilder and Eva Pfeltz.» Lizzy glared at Bill Wilder. «And you ...
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