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Biography: Billy Wilder

Biography: Billy Wilder

Called 'Billie' by his mother, a fan of William Cody, Wilder became a reporter for the yellow press when his father moved his family from rural Galicia to Vienna just before World War I.

Posted: Dec 2nd, 2008  Comments: 0   Views: 937   
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