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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 .
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 ...
“Sunset Boulevard” — adapted by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and writer-lyricists Don Black and Christopher Hampton from the 1950 film of the same name — has, until now, been known to ...
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.
A short extract of the film appears in Sunset Boulevard (1950), representing an old silent picture Swanson's character Norma Desmond - herself a silent movie star - had made. Von Stroheim is also a primary character in Sunset Boulevard as her ex-director, ex-husband, and current butler. By some accounts, von Stroheim suggested the clip be used ...
The film also won Best Picture. [10] [11] Wilder directed and co-wrote the screenplay for Sunset Boulevard (1950), a film noir about a reclusive silent film actress starring Gloria Swanson and William Holden. [12] It garnered 11 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, and all four acting categories.
The pleasures of that revival were largely metatextual: Norma, as in the 1950 film classic that originated her story, wants to restage long-ago glories and experience once more a moment that has ...