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<p><P>William Wild Bill Wellman was not Paramount Pictures' first choice to direct the World War I epic <i>Wings</i> (1927), but as a former aviator and war hero, he was the right choice. Despite months waging epic battles of his own with studio executives, Wild Bill managed to finish the big-budget war saga by inventing many of the techniques still used to film aerial battle scenes. The film, starring Clara Bow, broke box office records and earned its studio the first Academy Award for Best Picture. Considered by many to be the last great film of the silent era, <i>Wings</i> has been cited as a major influence on such directors as Martin Scorsese and Robert Redford. Its director, who went on to direct the likes of John Wayne, James Cagney, and Gary Cooper, later earned an Oscar for writing one of Hollywood's most loved (and often remade) films, <i>A Star is Born</i>. In this biography, the director's son, William Wellman Jr., reveals the war hero, family man, occasional prankster, and underestimated visionary who changed Hollywood forever.<P>Augmented with personal correspondence from Wellman's own World War I tour of duty as a fighter pilot, on-set photographs from <i>Wings</i> a

Author

William Wellman, Jr.

Publisher

Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780313043147

Subjects

Science, Performing Arts, Memoir

Rating

3.44 / 5 (9 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14