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During his forty-five-year career, William Wyler (1902--1981) pushed the boundaries of filmmaking with his gripping storylines and innovative depth-of-field cinematography. With a body of work that includes such memorable classics as Jezebel (1938), Mrs. Miniver (1942), Ben-Hur (1959), and Funny Girl (1968), Wyler is the most nominated director in the history of the Academy Awards and bears the distinction of having won an Oscar for Best Director on three occasions. Both Bette Davis and Lillian Hellman considered him Americas finest director, and Sir Laurence Olivier said he learned more about film acting from Wyler than from anyone else.

In William Wyler, Gabriel Miller explores the career of one of Hollywoods most unique and influential directors, examining the evolution of his cinematic style. Wylers films feature nuanced shots and multifaceted narratives that reflect his preoccupation with realism and story construction. The directors later works were deeply influenced by his time in the army air force during World War II, and the disconnect between the idealized version of the postwar experience and reality became a central theme of Wylers masterpiece, The Best Years of Our Lives (1946).

None of Wylers contemporaries approached his scope: he made successful and seminal films in practically every genre, including social drama, melodrama, and comedy. Yet, despite overwhelming critical acclaim and popularity, Wylers work has never been extensively studied. This long-overdue book offers a comprehensive assessment of the director, his work, and his films influence.

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Acknowledgments

First, I must thank the Rutgers Research Council, which awarded me several grants that allowed me to travel to Los Angeles to study William Wyler's papers. While in Los Angeles, I benefited from the generosity and expertise of the staff at the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; in particular, very special thanks to Kristine Krueger; Barbara Hall, the head of Special Collections; and Jenny Romero. Another special thank you to Lauren Buisson and her staff at the Charles E. Young Research Library, Department of Special Collections at UCLA. I am also indebted to Harry Miller, senior reference archivist at the Wisconsin Historical Society, for his help with the Ruth and Augustus Goetz Papers.

I also extend my gratitude to Catherine Wyler and Pat McGilligan for their encouragement, many acts of kindness, and words of wisdom. A special thank you to Anne Dean Watkins for her enthusiasm and belief in this project.

My deepest appreciation goes out to Merve Fejzula, who translated three essays from the French and, like Wyler, knows how to pronounce auteur. She also located numerous essays and interviews and reformatted all the notes and the bibliography.

As always, my wife, Kathy, offered countless suggestions that made this book better. Over the years, Lizzie, Matt, Jessica, and Adam have made me better as well.

SCREEN CLASSICS

Screen Classics is a series of critical biographies, film histories, and analytical studies focusing on neglected filmmakers and important screen artists and subjects, from the era of silent cinema to the golden age of Hollywood to the international generation of today. Books in the Screen Classics series are intended for scholars and general readers alike. The contributing authors are established figures in their respective fields. This series also serves the purpose of advancing scholarship on film personalities and themes with ties to Kentucky.

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Selected Bibliography
Books and Articles

Affron, Charles. Cinema and Sentiment. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.

. Reading the Fiction of Nonfiction: William Wyler's Memphis Belle. Quarterly Review of Film Studies 7, no. 1 (Winter 1982): 5359.

. Star Acting. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1977.

Affron, Charles, and Jona Mirella Affron. Best Years: Going to the Movies, 19451946. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2009.

Anderegg, Michael A. William Wyler. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1979.

Armstrong, Richard. The Best Years of Our Lives: Planes of Innocence and Experience. Film International 5, no. 6 (2007): 8391.

Arnold, William. Frances Farmer: Shadowland. New York: Jove/HBJ Books, 1979.

Astor, Mary. A Life in Film. New York: Delacorte Press, 1967.

Baxter, John. Hollywood in the Thirties. New York: A. S. Barnes, 1968.

Bazin, Andr. Bazin at Work: Major Essays and Reviews from the Forties and Fifties. Edited and translated by Bert Cardullo and Alain Piette. New York: Routledge, 1997.

. What Is Cinema? Edited and translated by Hugh Gray. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967.

Behlmer, Rudy, ed. Inside Warner Bros.: 19351951. New York: Viking, 1985.

Bellour, Raymond, ed. Le Cinema Amricain: Analyses de Films. Vol. 1. Paris: Flammarion, 1980.

Berg, A. Scott. Goldwyn: A Biography. New York: Ballantine, 1990.

Bergstrom, Janet. Alternation, Segmentation, Hypnosis: Interview with Raymond Bellour. Camera Obscura 34 (Summer 1979): 71103.

Biskind, Peter, Seeing Is Believing. New York: Pantheon, 1983.

Bluestone, George. Novels into Film. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973.

. Word to Image: The Problem of the Filmed Novel. Quarterly Review of Film, Radio, and Television 11, no. 2 (Winter 1956): 17180.

Bosworth, Patricia. Montgomery Clift. New York: Bantam, 1979.

Bowman, Barbara. Master Space: Film Images of Capra, Lubitsch, Sternberg, and Wyler. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1992.

Brennan, Stephen C. Sister Carrie Becomes Carrie. In Nineteenth-Century American Fiction on Screen, edited by R. Barton Palmer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Brownlowe, Kevin. The Early Days of William Wyler. Film 37 (August 1963): 1113.

Capra, Frank. The Name above the Title. New York: Macmillan, 1971.

Carey, Gary. The Lady and the Director: Bette Davis and William Wyler. Film Comment 6, no. 3 (Fall 1970): 1824.

Cartnal, Alan. Wyler on Wyler. Interview 4 (March 1974): 1011.

Coleman, Terry. Olivier. New York: Henry Holt, 2005.

Coursodon, Jean-Pierre. American Directors. Vol. 1. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1983.

Crowther, Bosley. The Lion's Share. New York: Dutton, 1957.

Davis, Bette. The Lonely Life. New York: G. P. Putnam Sons, 1962.

Dick, Bernard F. Hellman in Hollywood. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1982.

. The Star Spangled Screen. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1985.

Dixon, Wheeler Winston, ed. American Cinema of the 1940s. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2006.

Doeckel, Ken. William Wyler. Films in Review 22, no. 8 (October 1971): 46884.

Dunne, Philip. Take Two. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980.

Dworkin, Martin. The Desperate Hours and the Violent Screen. Shenandoah 11, no. 2 (Winter 1960): 3948.

Falk, Doris V. Lillian Hellman. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1978.

Fenin, George N., and William K. Everson. The Western. New York: Penguin, 1977.

Ferber, Edna. Come and Get It. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran, 1935.

Ford, Jesse Hill. The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones. Boston: AtlanticLittle Brown, 1965.

Fredericks, Ellsworth. Photographing The Friendly Persuasion. American Cinematographer 37, no. 4 (April 1956): 21617, 25052.

French, Brandon. On the Verge of Revolt: Women in American Films of the Fifties. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1978.

Gassner, John, and Dudley Nichols. Twenty Best Film Plays I & II

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