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CINEMA’S EXILES: FROM HITLER TO HOLLYWOOD traces the experiences of the Jews who fled Nazi Germany and took refuge in Hollywood, and examines their impact on both the German and the American cinemas.
Dec 2nd, 2008 |
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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.
Dec 2nd, 2008 |
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Video Exclusive: Exiles Succeed in Hollywood
Billy Wilder is just one of the more than 800 exiles who journey to Hollywood and succeed in the studio system.
Dec 1st, 2008 |
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Video Exclusive: Death Mills
Billy Wilder is hired by the U.S. Army to document the horror of the Nazi concentration camps at the end of World War II in the film Death Mills.
Dec 1st, 2008 |
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Major support for this program provided by the National Endowment for
the Humanities, The Skirball Foundation, Public Broadcasting Service,
The Winston Foundation, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman, The Lemberg
Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support
for this program provided by Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro, The Vital
Projects Fund, New Line Cinema, Elaine and Alan G. Weiler, The Karma
Foundation, Rosalind P. Walter, S. E. Canning, The Max and Victoria
Dreyfus Foundation, Alan Harper, Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Arnhold, Leila
and Melville Straus, the Feuchtwanger Institute and public television
viewers.