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His feelings are very rich and William Wyler has an enormous capacity to express his love. He is very cordial and likely to experience happiness in love relationships. William Wyler may ... have artistic aspirations or aims and could be very successful in some kind of artistic work.
Wyler's first film after returning from World War II often is considered his best, earning him his second Academy Award. Starring Frederic March, Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright, Dana Andrews, and a non-actor named Harold Russell, The Best Years of Our Lives prompted film critic James Agee to write in Agee on Film: "Wyler has always seemed to me an exceedingly sincere and good director; he now seems one of the few great ones. He has come back from the war with a style of great purity, directness, and warmth, about as cleanly devoid of mannerism, haste, superfluous motion, aesthetic or emotional over-reaching, as any I know; and I felt complete confidence, as I watched this work, that he could have handled any degree to which this material might have been matured as well as or even better that the job he was given to do." Agee continued to compliment Wyler's direction of Russell, who had actually lost both hands in World War II: "His direction of the nonprofessional, Harold Russell, is just an exciting proof, on the side, of the marvels a really good artist can perform in collaboration with a really good non-actor; much more of the time it was his job to get new and better things out of professionals than they had ever shown before."
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[A]nd again Wyler's choice of angle reveals character and nails the necessary emotion to make the story work. A modest claim – he's not inventing anything, he's not using extraordinary angles or elaborate long takes. He's selecting from the traditional palette of long shot, medium shot and close-up as the mood of the scene requires. He's just doing it better than everybody else.
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William Wyler has a passionate nature and a strong expression of his sexuality. His creative energies ... are strong and he may enjoy doing some creative work such as sculpturing, performing music or dancing.
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