Sunset Boulevard

(dir. Billy Wilder) (1950)

Creepiest of black comedies as wisecracking opportunist from Ohio (William Holden) encounters Old Hollywood (Norma Desmond, aka Gloria Swanson) with her major-domo, Erich von Stroheim, with fatal results. This Paramount classic with a sensational script is still the very best film ever made about Hollywood.

Without Norma, there wouldn’t be Paramount studios

After this classic, the pictures got smaller.

'We didn't need words, we had...FACES'

‘We didn’t need words, we had…FACES’

From Schwabs to the golf course at Bel Air, to Norma Desmond’s crumbling palazzo, this faded Sunset grandeur is vindication alone for olden golden Hollywood…

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