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Gloria Swanson: Directed by Dave Powers. With Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner. Highlights of this show include: the Charwoman meets Charlie Chaplin (guest Gloria Swanson); an elevator operator in Carol and Roger's new apartment building has a crush on her in another "Carol & Sis" sketch; and a mistress (Vicki) tells all to a radio call-in show about a man (Lyle ...
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- Comedy, Family
- Dave Powers
- 1973-09-29
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Budget. $1.75 million. Box office. $5 million. Sunset Boulevard (styled in the main title on-screen as SUNSET BLVD.) is a 1950 American black comedy [1] [2] film noir [3] directed by Billy Wilder and co-written by Wilder and Charles Brackett. It was named after a major street that runs through Hollywood .
Sunset Boulevard: Directed by Billy Wilder. With William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson. A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.
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- Drama, Film-Noir
- Billy Wilder
- 1950-08-04
Sunset Blvd. (1950) -- (Movie Clip) You Used To Be Big The first appearance of Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson), instructing screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden), who's there because he had a blowout while fleeing repo-men, on her chimp's funeral, having presumed he's the undertaker she called, from Billy Wilder's Sunset Blvd., 1950.
- Billy Wilder, C. C. Coleman Jr., Gerd Oswald
- William Holden
Q&A, Carol says Gloria Swanson is the guest, shows a clip of Carol as Nora Desmond, then the final scene from Sunset Blvd. Gloria Swanson comes out with Lyle, she talks more to him than Carol. The first sketch is one of the best Carol & Sis ones. Carol invites Jim the lovesick elevator operator (Jim Connell) to dinner.
Gloria Swanson made herself a legend all over again in her Oscar-nominated role as the unforgettable Norma Desmond, William Holden (also nominated) is the perfectly charming and cynical hack writer Joe Gillis, and Austrian director Erich von Stroheim plays the heartbroken butler.
