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...keeping an eye on the cracks in its facade. The industry, or at least that part of it that handed out awards, was grateful: eleven of the first 20 Oscars for best direction went to immigrants, from Frank Lloyd (Cavalcade) and Frank Capra (It Happened One Night) to William Wyler (The Best Years of Our Lives) and Elia Kazan (Gentleman's Agreement...
...never see you again." (Olivier would later model his stage and screen characterizations of the monstrous Richard III on Harris. "I thought of the most venal person I knew," he said.) After Actress Margaret Sulla van, one of the many women in Harris' life, married Film Director William Wyler, Harris phoned their house and whispered to Wyler, "You're a weak, untalented man married to a woman who is in love with...
DIED. William Wyler, 79, film director and three-time Oscar winner, for Mrs. Miniver (1942), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) and Ben-Hur (1959); of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Born in French Alsace, Wyler immigrated to New York at age 19 and worked as a publicity agent and a script clerk before directing his first silent film in 1925. Though his work ranged from musicals (Funny Girl, 1968) to westerns (The Big Country, 1958), Wyler was best known for his film adaptations of such novels as Sinclair Lewis' Dodsworth (1936) and Emily Bronte...
...real thing will find herself soon enough in an odd position with real life, a little exalted and, at the same time, perpetually risking compromise. Cautionary romances, like William Wyler's 1953 film Roman Holiday, have alerted us to the restrictive, hermetic and sometimes suffocating side of royal life. A princess is required to be both an ornament and an exemplar, a rarefied high-wire act that calls for a lot more skill than a good sense of balance. Everyone waits for a false step, and there are even some who will shake the wire. Diana's older...
...heroes-John Ford, George Stevens, William Wyler, most especially John Huston-emerged from the klieg lights of Hollywood fantasy into the strobe lights of enemy strafing to record the war as artist-combatants. Ford, wounded while photographing The Battle of Midway (1942), kept on shooting and won an Oscar for his pains. Huston's war trilogy suffered more serious casualties...