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Which newspaper beat did Billy Wilder cover in Berlin?
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Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder in a promotional photograph for Sunset Boulevard (1950), which he directed.
After moving from Vienna to Berlin in 1926, Billy Wilder was hired by a major newspaper to cover the crime beat. This experience in journalism proved valuable to his later career as a filmmaker.1