William Wyler : The Life and Films of Hollywood's Most Celebrated Director /
During his forty-five-year career, William Wyler (1902-1981) pushed the boundaries of filmmaking with his gripping storylines and innovative depth-of-field cinematography. With a body of work that includes such memorable classics as Jezebel (1938), Mrs. Miniver (1942), Ben-Hur (1959), and Funny Girl...
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
[2013]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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- Discovering a vocation and a style : The shakedown (1929), The love trap (1929), Hell's heroes (1930), A house divided (1931)
- Coming into his own : Counsellor-at-law (1933)
- First-class pictures : These three (1936)
- The Wyler touch : Dodsworth (1936)
- A concoction : Come and get it (1936)
- The street where they live : Dead end (1937)
- Gone with the plague : Jezebel (1938)
- Home on the moors and the range : Wuthering Heights (1939), The westerner (1940), The letter (1940)
- Bette Davis and the South redux : The little foxes (1941)
- War films : Mrs. Miniver (1942), Memphis Belle (1944), Thunderbolt (1945)
- The way home : The best years of our lives (1946)
- The American scene I : The heiress (1949)
- The American scene II : Carrie (1952)
- The House Un-American Activities Committee : Detective story (1951), Roman holiday (1953), The desperate hours (1955), The children's hour (1961)
- The pacifist dilemma : Friendly persuasion (1956), The big country (1958), Ben-Hur (1959)
- Final projects : The collector (1965), How to steal a million (1966), Funny girl (1968), The liberation of L.B. Jones (1970).