Tag: Billy Wilder
The Essential Movie Library #55: Sunset Boulevard (1950)
For all of Gloria Swanson's sturm und drang the movie's secret weapon is William Holden.
The Essential Movie Library #30: Some Like It Hot (1959)
With her unsung skills as a comedienne tethered to her vulnerability Marilyn Monroe steals every scene she's in.
The Essential Movie Library #9: Double Indemnity (1944)
Barbara Stanwyck is the golden dominatrix lashing schlub Fred MacMurray—cast over tough guys George Raft and Alan Ladd in a brilliantly counter-intuitive coup—to the service of her homicidal machinations.