A Talent For Trouble: The Life Of Hollywood's Most Acclaimed Director, William Wyler

A master craftsman with a powerful sense of moral realism and psychological detail, Wyler's movies--Jezebel, The Little Foxes, Mrs. Miniver, Roman Holiday and The Best Years of Our Lives, to name just a few--won him three Academy Awards for direction. Herman shows that Wyler's own story is every bit as entertaining as his movies. Filmography. Index. Photos.

The films of William Wyler (1902-1981) include some of the most memorable and honored motion pictures of all time; "Jezebel, The Letter, The Little Foxes, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Heiress, Detective Story, Roman Holiday, Ben-Hur, Funny Girl," and more than two dozen others. His great ability to conceal his directorial presence in order to better serve his material, coupled with the variety of genres in which he excelled, have earned his films 127 Academy Award nominations, winning Wyler three best-director Oscars. Based on his previously undiscovered papers, and hundreds of interviews, this perceptive, spellbinding biography reveals both the director and the private man in startling close-ups as he lived his turbulent life at a bit more than twenty-four frames per second.