Whit Stillman was born in 1952 and raised in Cornwall in upstate New York, the son of a impoverished dé–Žutante from Philadelphia and a Democratic politician from Washington D.C. Stillman graduated from Harvard in 1973 and started out as a journalist in Manhattan, New York City.In 1980 he met and married his Spanish wife while on an assignment in Barcelona, where he was introduced to some film producers from Madrid and persuaded them that he could sell their films to Spanish-language televisio ...[Read Story]
