A Talent for Trouble: The Life of Hollywood's Most Acclaimed Director, William Wyler

A Talent for Trouble: The Life of Hollywood's Most Acclaimed Director, William WylerThe films of William Wyler (1902 1981) include some of the most memorable and honored motion pictures of all time; Jezebel, The Letter, The Little Foxes, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Heiress, Detective Story, Roman Holiday, Ben Hur, Funny Girl, and more than two dozen others. His great ability to conceal his directorial presence in order to better serve his material, coupled with the variety of genres in which he excelled, have earned his films

The films of William Wyler (1902-1981) include some of the most memorable and honored motion pictures of all time; Jezebel, The Letter, The Little Foxes, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Heiress, Detective Story, Roman Holiday, Ben-Hur, Funny Girl, and more than two dozen others. His great ability to conceal his directorial presence in order to better serve his material, coupled with the variety of genres in which he excelled, have earned his films 127 Academy Award nominations, winning Wyler three best-director Oscars. Based on his previously undiscovered papers, and hundreds of interviews, this perceptive, spellbinding biography reveals both the director and the private man in startling close-ups as he lived his turbulent life at a bit more than twenty-four frames per second.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 08/22/1997
ISBN: 9780306807985
Pages: 544
Weight: 1.83lbs
Size: 9.26h x 5.90w x 1.32d

Review Citations: New York Times 11/30/1997 pg. 32
Publishers Weekly 09/08/1997