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Billy, How Did You Do It? - Part 1

Duration: 56 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

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Billy Wilder discusses his career with German film-maker Volker Schlondorff. From Marlene Dietrich to Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart to Gary Cooper, Wilder directed the film industry's greatest legends.

Normally a private man, here he reminisces about his early years in Hollywood with fellow emigres Fritz Lang and his mentor, Ernst Lubitsch, and describes working with Dietrich on his emotional return to postwar Berlin. Show less

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Billy Wilder
Interviewer:
Volker Schlondorff

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