Picks and Pans Review: American Masters: Directed by William Wyler

By Jeff Jarvis

UPDATED 07/13/1987 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 07/13/1987 at 01:00 AM EDT

PBS (Mon., July 13, 9 p.m. ET)

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Every American Masters should be as frank, funny, affectionate and all-around wonderful as this tribute to the director of The Best Years of Our Lives and Ben Hur. Bette Davis, Laurence Olivier, Audrey Hepburn and Lillian Hellman are as entertaining talking about Wyler as they were working for him.