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Sunset Boulevard is a 1950 American drama and film noir directed by Billy Wilder. The black-and-white film, produced by Paramount Pictures, features a cast including William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, and Nancy Olson. The screenplay was written by Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and D. M. Marshman, Jr., with Franz Waxman composing the music. John F. Seitz served as director of photography, while Arthur P. Schmidt was the film editor. The narrative is set in Los Angeles.
The story follows a hack screenwriter who writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity. The film has a runtime of 110 minutes. It received the Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay, the National Board of Review Award for Best Film, and a place in the National Board of Review: Top Ten Films. The film was also nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress.
Sunset Boulevard holds an IMDb rating of 8.4 based on 261,580 votes. On TMDb, it has a vote average of 8.277 from 2,926 votes. The film had a budget of 1,752,000 and generated revenue of 5,000,000.
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Film · TMDB
8.3A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
Cast
- William Holden as Joe Gillis
- Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond
- Erich von Stroheim as Max von Mayerling
- Nancy Olson as Betty Schaefer
- Fred Clark as Sheldrake
- Lloyd Gough as Morino
Themes
- new year's eve
- jealousy
- loss of sense of reality
- screenwriter
- butler
- delusion
- diva
- film noir
- hollywood
- los angeles, california
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Internet Archive
moviesSunset Boulevard (restored) (1950, BW cinematography benchmark, imdb score: 8.4)
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Encyclopedic overview
Sunset Boulevard is a 1950 American black comedy film noir directed by Billy Wilder and co-written by Wilder, Charles Brackett, and D. M. Marshman Jr. It is named after a major street that runs through Hollywood and western Los Angeles.
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. Erich von Stroheim plays Max von Mayerling, her devoted butler, and Nancy Olson, Jack Webb, Lloyd Gough, and Fred Clark appear in supporting roles. Director Cecil B. DeMille and gossip columnist Hedda Hopper play themselves, and the film includes cameo appearances by silent film stars Buster Keaton, H. B. Warner, and Anna Q. Nilsson.
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