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Who did Billy Wilder room with during his early years in Hollywood?
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Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder in a promotional photograph for Sunset Boulevard (1950), which he directed.
During his early years in Hollywood, when he had limited proficiency in English, Billy Wilder roomed with the expatriate German actor Peter Lorre.1