Tag: Billy Wilder

• Monroe: Some Kind of Mirror

  In just over a decade, she worked with the greatest directors in Golden Age Hollywood: Huston, Wilder, Cukor, and Hawks. Moviegoers paid $200,000,000 to watch her project her trademark combination of atomic-age sexuality and childlike, vulnerable astuteness. She was born into an orphan’s chaos and lived the shadowy Los Angelean life of a Raymond Chandler…

  Dana D. Burnell

  May 11, 2022

  Drug Deaths, Golden Age Hollywood, Sex Symbols, Uncategorized

  Billy Wilder, Celebrity Death, Marilyn Monroe, Overdose, Sex Symbol

• I’m the One. . .

  . . .sidling shyly in the doorway, pausing to pretend to admire the decor.  When really I’m just vetting out the room, getting a handle on the dress code, the temperature, taking a measure of the ol’ joie-de-vivre.  In short, this is my first time here.  And I’m not sure what to say, other than that…

  Dana D. Burnell

  January 7, 2019

  Film & Storytelling

  Barbara Stanwyck, Billy Wilder, Golden Age Hollywood, Hollywood, Joan Fontaine, Noir, Novelists, Preston Sturges, Self-Styled Siren