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Sunset Boulevard is a 1950 American black comedy [1] [2] film noir [3] 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.
Sunset Boulevard is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, and lyrics and libretto by Don Black and Christopher Hampton.It is based on the 1950 film.. The plot revolves around Norma Desmond, a faded star of the silent screen era, living in the past in her decaying mansion on the fabled Los Angeles street.
The boulevard is commemorated in Billy Wilder's film Sunset Boulevard (1950), the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical of the same name, and the 1950s television series 77 Sunset Strip. Jan and Dean 's 1960s hit song " Dead Man's Curve " refers to a section of the road near Bel Air estates just north of UCLA 's Drake Stadium where Jan Berry almost died ...
On August 10, 1950, Paramount’s Billy Wilder-directed drama Sunset Boulevard premiered in New York. The film went on to earn 11 nominations at the 23rd Academy Awards, winning in the art ...
Davis starred in the other greatest film about a woman of a certain age from 1950: All About Eve. But Davis' Margo Channing learns to age with some modicum of dignity — sure, after drinking ...
Glenn Close is determined to get the Sunset Boulevard remake made. “It’s moving forward,” Close, 77, exclusively told Us Weekly of the film at Variety’s 2024 Power of Women luncheon in New ...
She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Sunset Boulevard (1950). She co-starred with William Holden in four films, and later appeared in The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) and its sequel, Son of Flubber (1963), as well as the disaster film Airport 1975 (1974). Olson retired from acting in the mid-1980s ...
Sunset Boulevard, based on the 1950 Billy Wilder movie of the same name, follows fictional faded movie star Norma Desmond and the desperate attempts she goes to in order to get back into the ...