The American Film Institute Salute to William Wyler (March 9th 1976)

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@TheTerryE Жыл бұрын

So wonderful to have this. I knew Willy for 20 years. He was one of a kind.

@melissapollom427 11 ай бұрын

That is awesome❤

@andrewcharles7873 2 ай бұрын

Wow really? Willy died in 1981, that was 43 years ago... If you know him for 20 years, that means you must be at least 120 years old....are you still alive??

@TheTerryE 2 ай бұрын

@@andrewcharles7873 You're not very good at math, are you?

@lynngregory393 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing these AFI shows. They bring back many good memories!

@CathyChester 11 ай бұрын

Thank you for posting these gems. I've been wanting to see them for years but they were nowhere to be found. I sincerely appreciate it!

@rainbowchaser90 11 ай бұрын

Thank You so much for posting this. I have waited decades to see this!!

@errolpletcher9186 29 күн бұрын

I am reading Myrna Loy's autobiography and she talks about this. Thirty years after we made The Best Years of Our Lives, the American Film Institute gave William Wyler its Life Achievement Award. All these jokers who had worked with him were out there-Charlton Heston, Eddie Albert, even Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon-making their jokes at his expense. Streisand didn’t do it. With all the problems they apparently had on Funny Girl, she was very gracious. The others said some nice things, too, because I’m sure they all admired him, but there was entirely too much kidding about his retakes and perfectionism. People think they’re supposed to get laughs because they are on television. I kept getting madder and madder as I looked down the table at Willy and saw his discomfort. Harold Russell, sitting next to me, didn’t like it either. Finally, at the end, it came time for me to speak. ( 1:03:25 ) “I’m going to defend you,” I began, explaining that the reason for his repeated takes was that he suspects some wonderful new thing is going to happen-and it usually does. He called me the next morning to thank me. “Well,” I ventured, “you weren’t very happy last night, were you?” And he said, “No, I wasn’t very happy,” which was a damn shame.

@privatedeborah1004 19 күн бұрын

Myrna Loy was such a gracious and kind human beeing.

@jeffearle8172 13 күн бұрын

Personally, I believe that Myrna Loy misread this event. These tributes , and I have watched almost all of them, are always sprinkled with good natured ribbing from the people who worked with the award recipient. Wyler did not appear to me to have been offended. He even shook hands with Harold Russell on his way to the stage and pretended to have been pinched by his prosthetic hand.

@errolpletcher9186 13 күн бұрын

@@jeffearle8172 Did you miss the part where Wyler called Loy and told her he wasn't happy with how it went??

@jeffearle8172 12 күн бұрын

@@errolpletcher9186 No, I didn’t miss that. I don’t remember Wyler expressing those sentiments to anyone but Loy. It makes a good story.

@carloscanas4803 10 ай бұрын

One of the greatest director of all time with so many masterpieces specially the best years of our lives and ben-hur my favorite director of all time along with Akira kurosawa

@xcel5203 5 ай бұрын

Great directors are born - Wyler was a migrant who went on to become a legend in Hollywood .

@SriRam-n8q 3 ай бұрын

Wonderful 😊🎉Thankyou for your videos Alain

@comedyshorts2 7 ай бұрын

Harold Russell who lost his hands during WW2 appears at 58 minutes at this Wyler'sTribute died in 2002 of a heart attack at age 88 in Needham, Mass.

@maryeliason1504 3 ай бұрын

I loved ALL of these!

@GarrettDavis-nu3ti 2 ай бұрын

HUGE WYLER FAN IN 2024 !!! Have been since around the X this program aired.

@juancarlosfauvety5646 10 ай бұрын

It was in 2001, when I had the good fortune of finding this Live Achievement in Los Angeles after a long research, people of the AFI and also a few of them who actually were that night. After four long trips to California (from Buenos Aires) along the years and even meeting a formidable person in DC. as Catherine Wyler, talking about making another film documentary about her father, with a long research, my own footage in Mulhouse, where he was born and in Glendale where he rests, research at the Margaret Herrick Libray in every trip, and everywhere, besides film clips of his movies in first quality now, and a deep study about Wyler as human being and extraordinary filmmaker, I chose Academy Award®winner Eugenio Zanetti to narrate my own script in English, which I also produced, directed and made the editing, like in this 3' minute long trailer, which I hopefully wait you like, as I said to Mr. George Stevens Jr. after our emails months ago, after being a long admirer of his persona and career for the Arts and also after being a student about his father as well. They were more than 20 years in the making. I remember Mr. Carl Reiner asking me at the Directors Guild in Sunset, during the Stanley Kramer Tribute: 'Yes, I believe you! But tell me how?' Sadly, my footage about the AFI Live Achievement was exclusive until January this year. But there is more about William Wyler in my film fortunately. I do hope to show it some day in US, and going back to do it; my 84 minute-long film about: William Wyler: 'The legendary starmaker'. This is the trailer. Thank you very much. jcfauvety@usa.com kzbin.info/www/bejne/g32Xp6OGq7Foea8

@JoanSmith-t7k 4 ай бұрын

At 40:27,Heston had said in his Journal book about “Ben-Hur”, “We had trouble with every scene that had water in it”…

@noahakin4402 10 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@CliffBronson1212 9 ай бұрын

Betty Ford, couldn't have said it better 👏

@jochenreinhardt3504 8 ай бұрын

Since there are DVDs and Blu Rays the Qaulity of the Movies, even the old ones, are much better now.

@danielmalloy6093 4 ай бұрын

To me this is a culmination, of life's acheivments. Greater than all their Emmy's.

@grant1088 11 ай бұрын

Oh my god he made some wonderful movie. 35:46

@kyleolsen6938 Ай бұрын

When Hollywood was great and men were men and women were beautiful

@rhodaseptilici3816 6 ай бұрын

The best the greatest director.🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟💗🌹🙏

@wotan10950 11 ай бұрын

36:31 Lee Grant wasn’t in Funny Girl.

@akrenwinkle 9 ай бұрын

Hank never saw it. Grant must have thought, "Ugh! Why do I go to these things?"

@dpf5939 5 ай бұрын

Too bad Bette Davis wasnt there. He directed her in Jezebel 1938, The Letter 1940 and The Little Foxes 1941.

@sailingsam3815 11 ай бұрын

Master film maker

@JoanSmith-t7k 4 ай бұрын

Harold Russell said he never forgot it, after winning two Oscars he met Cary Grant backstage, and Cary said, “ Where can I get me two sticks of dynamite ?” 😮😮

@jeffpiegari4942 11 ай бұрын

Anymore specials please

@AuntieMamie 6 ай бұрын

What a legend indeed. That was the real Hollywood.

@michaelmuldowney8 3 ай бұрын

Only man to have directed 3 best picture Oscar winners. Clint Eastwood and Francis Coppola are the only living directors capable of matching this feat.

@alaindmj-others 11 ай бұрын

I know... I bought it from a secret American source...

@elchoya8432 2 ай бұрын

the great gregory peck

@f.p.3975 11 ай бұрын

Why wasn't Bette Davis there?

@wotan10950 11 ай бұрын

They had a very intense relationship, some said a romantic liaison. She said she couldn’t face being there to honor him. However, when Davis was honored later by the AFI, Wyler attended and spoke about working together.

@f.p.3975 11 ай бұрын

Exactly! That's why I was surprised she wasn't among those who honored him that night

@jeffearle8172 10 ай бұрын

I have been waiting to see this since I first watched it in 1976. It was never released on video until now because of some technical difficulties with the program.

@jeffearle8172 10 ай бұрын

@@wotan10950there must be more to the story than that. Their affair happened 35 years before this ceremony. Davis was honored the following year and Wyler was in attendance.

@dpf5939 5 ай бұрын

William Wyler was on This is your Life in 1972 when Bette was honored.

@harnekkallah2656 4 ай бұрын

True stars.

@akrenwinkle 9 ай бұрын

It may be apocryphal, but... Story is somebody was complaining to Willie about Barbra's behavior. Willie defended her: "Well, she never directed a picture before."

@maryeliason1504 3 ай бұрын

Bette Davis was wonderful in this (everything else). Also Little Foxes.

@larry1824 3 ай бұрын

He and Bette killed at Warners

@williamdunphy352 3 ай бұрын

Introduced by John Harlan.

@محمدمحمد-ض8د1ر 4 ай бұрын

شيء رائع أن ترى عباقرة هوليوود بعصرها الذهبي وقد تقدم بهم العمر

@JoanSmith-t7k 4 ай бұрын

Oh phooey, they didn’t show my christmas movie, “The Heiress” - later in it Catherine hates her so-called father forever ( it’s only natural).

@grant1088 11 ай бұрын

Where was bette davis must of been a good reason he help make her career he was a genius. 31:19

@wotan10950 11 ай бұрын

@alvaropelayo8084 10 ай бұрын

That's the real Bette Davis, a selfish arrogant overrated person who used to call herself an actress. Never has liked her, r.i.p.

@CliffBronson1212 9 ай бұрын

Chuck Heston, and Gregory Peck (I have a younger brother - by 1.5 years - named Gregory impressive named Gregory) isn't this something having 2 giants of American entertainment begin your program