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She first achieved fame acting in dozens of silent films in the 1920s and was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, most famously for her 1950 turn in Billy Wilder 's Sunset Boulevard, which also earned her a Golden Globe Award.
The film stars William Holden as Joe Gillis, a struggling screenwriter, and Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, a former silent-film star who draws him into her deranged fantasy world, where she dreams of making a triumphant return to the screen.
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.
One of the most iconic scenes in Film History: Swanson's deluded Norma Desmond descending the "staircase in the palace", assuming she is playing Salome about...
Oct 12, 2021 · In her iconic comeback role as has-been Norma Desmond in 1950’s Sunset Boulevard, Gloria Swanson raves, “I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.” Though only 4’11”, this statement was...
May 30, 2024 · Billy Wilder watches William Holden and Gloria Swanson rehearse a scene for “Sunset Boulevard” (1950). Photo courtesy of Paramount Pictures. Wally Westmore was the makeup supervisor on the film and Wilder wanted him to make Swanson, who looked young for her age, appear older.
Aug 14, 2024 · 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 that runs through Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, Calif. Deemed.
Norma Desmond is the irregularly beating heart of Sunset Boulevard. She may not be the protagonist—that's Joe—but she is what makes this flick tick. She's the Queen Bee, the power that controls events and brings about Joe's doomed fate. When Gillis first meets Norma, her eccentricity is already bordering on straight-up nuts.
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.
Oct 5, 1983 · It also brings Actress Gloria Swanson back to the screen, after a nine-year absence, in a performance that puts her right up in the running for the first Oscar of her 37-year career.
