Playboy Interview: Billy Wilder

Playboy Interview: Billy WilderFor solo and collaborative efforts as director and scenarist, Billy Wilder has been nominated 24 times for Academy Awards, amassing nine Oscars during 28 years in the movie capital. Recently Playboy interviewed him in his suite of offices on the Goldwyn lot in downtown Hollywood, where he and co-writer I. A. L. Diamond -- having just completed "Irma La Douce" -- were brain-storming over the script for his next picture. They would be working and reworking...