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William Wyler
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For me, William Wyler is a director who rarely puts a foot wrong. His dramas from These Three to Dead End, The Letter to The Best Years of Our Lives, from Carrie to The Collector entertain and move the spirit. Born in Alsace and emigrating to America in his late teens, Wyler was able to obtain work at Universal Studios due to his mother being a cousin of the Laemmle family. That foot in the door allowed Wyler's talent to blossom.
Westerns were a popular commodity in the silent era. Abundant use of available outdoor locations made them an "easy" shoot and the stories had a built-in audience. Cutting his teeth on these action pictures allowed Wyler to experiment and discover his own artistic voice. As his career progressed, he would work for other studios and producers, collaborate with the best of cinematographers, Gregg Toland, and create masterworks. Among those masterworks would be westerns and I would like to highlight two of them from very different eras and stages of William Wyler's legendary career.
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"Although William Wyler's credits extend officially from to , his period of pre-eminence was between (Dodsworth) and (The Best Years of Our Lives). Orson Welles has called Wyler, not inaptly, the great producer among directors; that is to say, the masterly selector of shots, the compleat angler of the most gripping camera angles." - Andrew Sarris (Cinema: A Critical Dictionary, )
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() Born July 1, Mülhausen, Alsace, Germany (now Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin, France)
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Key Production Country: USA
Key Genres: Drama, Family Drama, Melodrama, Romantic Drama, Romantic Comedy, Romance, Psychological Drama, Epic, War Drama, Crime Drama, Thriller, Period Film
Key Collaborators: Robert Swink (Editor), Daniel Mandell (Editor), Samuel Goldwyn (Producer), Gregg Toland (Cinematographer), Alfred Newman (Composer), Miriam Hopkins (Leading Actress), Hal Pereira (Production Designer), Bette Davis (Leading Actress), Audrey Hepburn (Leading Actress), Herbert Marshall (Leading Actor), Teresa Wright (Leading Actress), Lillian Hellman (Screenwriter)
"There was a time when William Wyler was hailed as one of the finest of all directors, praised for his use of deep-focus cinematography and long, unbroken takes. Today his reputation has decl