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  1. 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 .

    • August 10, 1950
  2. Sunset Blvd.: 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.

    • Billy Wilder
    • 733
    • 3 min
  3. Synopsis. The film opens with the camera tracking down Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California as police cars begin racing down it. The lifeless body of a young man, Joe Gillis (Holden) floats in the swimming pool of a palatial mansion. As the police begin converging on the house Joe's voice narrates, in flashback style, the events leading ...

  4. Apr 14, 2023. Aug 16, 2022. An aging silent film queen refuses to accept that her stardom has ended. She hires a young screenwriter to help set up her movie comeback. The screenwriter believes he ...

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    • Billy Wilder
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  5. Jun 27, 1999 · Gloria Swanson and William Holden in "Sunset Boulevard." Billy Wilder's "Sunset Boulevard” is the portrait of a forgotten silent star, living in exile in her grotesque mansion, screening her old films, dreaming of a comeback. But it's also a love story, and the love keeps it from becoming simply a waxworks or a freak show.

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  7. Director-writer Bruce La Bruce borrowed plot elements from Sunset Boulevard for his film about a gay hustler, Hustler White (1996). Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Sunset Boulevard premiered in London in 1993 with Patty Lupone as Norma Desmond before moving to Broadway in 1994 with Glenn Close in the leading role. Other Norma's on tour and on ...

  8. 5 days ago · Sunset Boulevard. Gloria Swanson and William Holden in Sunset Boulevard (1950), directed by Billy Wilder. Sunset Boulevard, American film noir, released in 1950, that is often cited as one of Hollywood ’s greatest films, especially noted for Gloria Swanson ’s portrayal of a fading silent-film star. The movie is named after the iconic street ...

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