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Originally planning to become a lawyer, Billy Wilder abandoned that career in favor of working as a reporter for a Viennese newspaper, using this experience to move to Berlin, where he worked for the city's largest tabloid. He broke into films as a screenwriter in 1929 and wrote scripts for many German films until Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933. Wilder immediately realized his Jewish ancestry would cause problems, so he emigrated to Paris, then the US. Although he spoke no English when he arrived in Hollywood, Wilder was a fast learner and thanks to contacts such as Peter Lorre (with whom he shared an apartment), he was able to break into American films. His partnership with Charles Brackett started in 1938 and the team was responsible for writing some of Hollywood's classic comedies, including Ninotchka (1939) and Ball of Fire (1941). The partnership expanded into a producer-director one in 1942, with Brackett producing and the two turned out such classics as Five Graves to Cairo (1943), The Lost Weekend (1945) (Oscars for Best Picture, Director and Screenplay) and Sunset Boulevard (1950) (Oscars for Best Screenplay), after which the partnership dissolved. (Wilder had already made one film, Double Indemnity (1944) without Brackett, as the latter had refused to work on a film he felt dealt with such disreputable characters.) Wilder's subsequent self-produced films would become more caustic and cynical, notably Ace in the Hole (1951), though he also produced such sublime comedies as Some Like It Hot (1959) and The Apartment (1960) (which won him Best Picture and Director Oscars). He retired in 1981.- Director
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W. Lee Wilder was born on 22 August 1904 in Sucha, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Sucha Beskidzka, Malopolskie, Poland]. W. Lee was a director and producer, known for Once a Thief (1950), The Big Bluff (1955) and Killers from Space (1954). W. Lee died on 14 February 1982 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
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- Writer
Andrzej Szczepkowski was born on 26 April 1923 in Sucha Beskidzka, Malopolskie, Poland. He was an actor and director, known for Kalosze szczescia (1958), Television Theater (1953) and Wojna domowa (1965). He died on 31 January 1997 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Agnieszka Paschke was born in 1984 in Sucha Beskidzka, Malopolskie, Poland. She is an actress, known for Lost in the City (2022), 2Close2U (2017) and Fotoautomat Man (2020).
- Actress
Lucyna Legut was born on 27 March 1926 in Sucha Beskidzka, Malopolskie, Poland. She was an actress, known for Prom (1970), Zycie na goraco (1979) and Television Theater (1953). She died on 4 March 2011 in Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland.- Ferdynand Goetel was born on 15 May 1890 in Sucha, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Sucha Beskidzka, Malopolskie, Poland]. He was a writer, known for Dziesieciu z Pawiaka (1931), Z dnia na dzien (1929) and Dzien wielkiej przygody (1935). He was married to Panna Madalinska. He died on 24 November 1960 in London, England, UK.
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Klaudia Folga was born on 25 March 1991 in Sucha Beskidzka, Malopolskie, Poland. She is a director and assistant director, known for Factorial Juggling (2022), The Turtle Cave (2019) and Body (2015).