Sunset Boulevard

Directed by Billy Wilder
PG
4 August 1950    1h 50m    Box Office: US$5MDrama, Film-Noir
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Desperate for cash, screenwriter Joe Gillis has a chance meeting with a faded silent film star. Norma Desmond lives in her crumbling Sunset Boulevard mansion with only her butler to keep her company. She has become a sad demented recluse convinced that the outside world is clamoring for her dramatic return. Enticing him with the prospect of script work she puts him up in her mansion and he becomes ever more involved and entangled in her life.
  • William HoldenJoe Gillis
  • Gloria SwansonNorma Desmond
  • Erich von StroheimMax von Mayerling
  • Nancy OlsonBetty Schaefer
  • Fred ClarkSheldrake
  • Lloyd GoughMorino
  • Jack WebbArtie Green
  • Franklyn FarnumUndertaker
  • Larry J. Blake1st Finance Man
  • Charles Dayton2nd Finance Man
  • Cecil B. DeMilleCecil B. DeMille
  • Hedda HopperHedda Hopper
  • Buster KeatonBuster Keaton
  • Anna Q. NilssonAnna Q. Nilsson
  • H.B. WarnerH.B. Warner
  • Ray EvansRay Evans
  • Jay LivingstonJay Livingston
  • Fred AldrichCop Who Drags Joe's Body from Pool (uncredited)
  • Joel AllenProp Man #2 (uncredited)
  • Gertrude AstorCourtier (uncredited)

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