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Fedora is a 1978 German-French drama film directed by Billy Wilder and starring William Holden and Marthe Keller. The screenplay by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is based on Tom Tryon's novella in the collection Crowned Heads.
Sep 13, 1978 · Fedora: Directed by Billy Wilder. With William Holden, Marthe Keller, Hildegard Knef, José Ferrer. Down-on-his-luck Hollywood producer Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler attempts to lure Fedora, a famous but reclusive film actress, out of retirement only to discover the horrible truth behind her success.
When movie legend Fedora (Marthe Keller) commits suicide, the world grieves, and no one more so than writer and old flame Barry "Dutch" Detweiler (William Holden).
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Overview. An ambitious Hollywood hustler becomes involved with a reclusive female star, whom he tries to lure out of retirement. Billy Wilder.
Fedora, an aging and reclusive film star, dies in Paris, struck by a train. At her funeral, a film producer thinks back over the past two weeks and the part he might have played in her death. He'd gone to Corfu to track her down, pushing himself into her island villa, where she lived with a...
Fedora. 1978. Directed by Billy Wilder. Fedora (1978) may be considered a companion to Sunset Blvd (1950) but is nowhere close to the high calibre brilliance of Sunset Blvd. Nevertheless, Fedora is based on a story by Tom Tryon (The Longest Day, The Cardinal, and In Harm’s Way). Wilder and IAL Diamond developed a screenplay from Tryon story.
Fedora is a film directed by Billy Wilder with William Holden, Marthe Keller, Hildegard Knef, José Ferrer .... Year: 1978. Original title: Fedora. Synopsis: Billy Wilder's knowing, deliberately old-fashioned homage to a bygone age of filmmaking, it stars William Holden as producer Barry Detweiler.
