Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna

Original Price: $24.95 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS By Billy WilderEdited by Noah IsenbergTranslated by Shelley Frisch This book is featured in our Literatur Café series. A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, chosen by Tom Stoppard"A revelation."―Marc Weingarten, Washington PostAcclaimed film director Billy Wilder’s early writings―brilliantly translated into English for the first timeBefore Billy Wilder became the screenwriter and director of iconic films like Sunset Boulevard and Some Like It Hot, he worked as a freelance reporter, first in Vienna and then in Weimar Berlin. Billy Wilder on Assignment brings together more than fifty articles, translated into English for the first time, that Wilder (then known as "Billie") published in magazines and newspapers between September 1925 and November 1930. From a humorous account of Wilder's stint as a hired dancing companion in a posh Berlin hotel and his dispatches from the international film scene, to his astute profil