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 | | Films such as DOUBLE INDEMNITY, THE LOST WEEKEND, and SUNSET BLVD. (1950) won Wilder a reputation as a cynic, but also notable was the bleak A FOREIGN AFFAIR, a film that Wilder, a colonel during WWII, chose to direct in recently captured Berlin; it brilliantly captured the bewildering moral climate of the late 1940s. |
 | | In 1933, after co-directing a film in France, Wilder arrived in Hollywood, part of the large emigré influx of German and Austrian film talent. |
 | | Wilder's most recent film, with his frequent stars Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, was the farcical BUDDY BUDDY (1981). |
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