Editing Billy Wilder (section)

==Early life==
Samuel Wilder ({{Langx|yi|שמואל װילדער}} ''Shmuel Vilder''<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=575257|title=הם היו כל-כך יהודים, הם היו כל-כך אמריקנים|date=April 4, 2002|newspaper=Globes}}</ref>) was born on June 22, 1906,<ref>{{cite web |title=Billy Wilder Biography |url=http://www.biography.com/people/billy-wilder-9531169 |work=[[Biography.com]] |date=2015 |access-date=May 2, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150509061912/http://www.biography.com/people/billy-wilder-9531169 |archive-date=May 9, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> to a [[Jewish]] family<ref name="Sikov">{{Cite book |last=Sikov |first=Ed |title=On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/sikov-sunset.html |date=1998 |pages=3–17 |publisher=Hyperion |location=New York |isbn=0786861940 |author-link=Ed Sikov}}</ref> in [[Sucha Beskidzka|Sucha]],<ref name='"Polish Town Goes Wild Over Wilder"'>{{cite web |last1=Murphy |first1=Dean E. |title=Polish Town Goes Wild Over Wilder|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-05-26-ca-8459-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |date=May 26, 1996 |access-date=July 13, 2020}}</ref> a small town in Galicia, present-day Poland, then part of the [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]]. Years later in Hollywood, he would describe it as being "Half an hour from Vienna. By telegraph."<ref>Brackett, Charles, It's the Pictures That Got Small, Columbia University Press, 2015, pg.87</ref> His parents were Eugenia (''née'' Dittler), from [[Zakopane]], and Max Wilder, from [[Stanislawczyk]]; they met in [[Kraków]] where Billy spent his early years.<ref name="Sikov"/> His mother described him as a "rambunctious kid"; inspired by [[Buffalo Bill|Buffalo Bill's]] [[Wild West shows|Wild West Shows]], which she saw while living briefly in New York, she nicknamed him "Billie", which he changed to "Billy" upon moving to America.<ref name=Hamrah_AS>{{cite magazine |last=Hamrah |first= A.S. |date=March–May 2022 |title=Some Like It Fraught- How Billy Wilder survived the twentieth century |url=https://www.bookforum.com/print/2901/how-billy-wilder-survived-the-twentieth-century-24829 |magazine=Bookforum |location=New York|publisher=Bookforum Magazine |access-date=March 15, 2022}}</ref>

Wilder's elder brother, [[W. Lee Wilder]], was also a filmmaker. His parents had a successful cake shop in Sucha's train station that flourished into a chain of railroad cafes. Eugenia and Max Wilder did not persuade their son to join the family business. Max moved to Kraków to manage a hotel before moving to Vienna and dying when Billy was 22 years old.<ref name=Hamrah_AS/> After the family moved to Vienna, Wilder became a journalist instead of attending the [[University of Vienna]]. In 1926, jazz band leader [[Paul Whiteman]] was on tour in Vienna where he was interviewed by Wilder.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/29/us/billy-wilder-master-of-caustic-films-dies-at-95.html|title=Billy Wilder, Master of Caustic Films, Dies at 95|last=Harmetz|first=Aljean|date=March 29, 2002|work=The New York Times|access-date=February 4, 2020|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Whiteman liked young Wilder enough that he took him with the band to [[Berlin]], where Wilder was able to make more connections in entertainment.

Before achieving success as a writer, he was a [[taxi dancer]] in Berlin.<ref>Philips, Alastair. ''City of Darkness, City of Light: Emigre Filmmakers in Paris, 1929–1939.'' Amsterdam University Press, 2004. p. 190.</ref><ref>Silvester, Christopher. ''The Grove Book of Hollywood.'' Grove Press, 2002. p. 311</ref>