"Here are face-to-face interviews with some of the historic giants of the industry, spanning the silent era to the 1970s, including Billy Wilder, Sidney Buchman (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington), Donald Ogden Stewart (The Philadelphia Story), Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich (It's a Wonderful Life), Evan Hunter (The Birds), John Collier, Edmund Hartmann, Preston Sturges, and many more. "--Jacket.