Saturday, August 24, 2013

Sunset Blvd

Also Known As: A Can of Beans

Company: Paramount Pictures

Aspect Ratio: 1.37 : 1

Budget: $1,752,000

Full Cast: William Holden / Gloria Swanson / Erich von Stroheim / Nancy Olson / Fred Clark / Lloyd Gough / Jack Webb / Franklyn Farnum / Larry J. Blake / Charles Dayton / Cecil B. DeMille / Hedda Hopper / Buster Keaton / Anna Q. Nilsson / H.B. Warner / Ray Evans / Jay Livingston / Fred Aldrich / Joel Allen / Gertrude Astor / Ken Christy / Ruth Clifford / John Cortay / Archie R. Dalzell / Eddie Dew / Peter Drynan / Julia Faye / Al Ferguson / Gerry Ganzer / Kenneth Gibson / Joe Gray / Sanford E. Greenwald / Creighton Hale / Chuck Hamilton / James Hawley / Len Hendry / E. Mason Hopper / Stan Johnson / Tiny Jones / Howard Joslin / Arthur Lane / Perc Launders / Gertrude Messinger / Harold Miller / John 'Skins' Miller / Lee Miller / Ralph Montgomery / Bert Moorhouse / Jay Morley / Bernice Mosk / Howard Negley / Ottola Nesmith / Eva Novak / Frank O'Connor / Robert Emmett O'Connor / Jack Perrin / Virginia L. Randolph / Bill Sheehan / Sidney Skolsky / Emmett Smith / Roy Thompson / Archie Twitchell / Yvette Vickers / Edward Wahrman / Henry Wilcoxon

Cast and Character: 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 / Jack Webb as Artie Green / Franklyn Farnum as Undertaker / Larry J. Blake as 1st Finance Man / Charles Dayton as 2nd Finance Man / Cecil B. DeMille as Cecil B. DeMille / Hedda Hopper as Hedda Hopper / Buster Keaton as Buster Keaton / Anna Q. Nilsson as Anna Q. Nilsson / H.B. Warner as H. B. Warner

Color: Black and White

Countries: USA

Creators: n/A

Description: A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

Directors: Billy Wilder

Genres: Drama / Film-Noir

Languages: English

Location: Bel-Air Country Club - 10768 Bellagio Road, Los Angeles, California, USA

MPAA: Approved

Opening Weekend: n/A

Plot: The story, set in '50s Hollywood, focuses on Norma Desmond, a silent-screen goddess whose pathetic belief in her own indestructibility has turned her into a demented recluse. The crumbling Sunset Boulevard mansion where she lives with only her butler, Max who was once her director and husband has become her self-contained world. Norma dreams of a comeback to pictures and she begins a relationship with Joe Gillis, a small-time writer who becomes her lover, that will soon end with murder and total madness.

Poster: posters/0043014.jpg

Rating: 8.6

Release Date: 25 August 1950 (Australia)

Runtime: 110 min

Seasons: n/A

Sound Mix: Mono

Tagline: This is it .. the most compelling dramatic story ever unfolded on the screen .. a tale of heartache and tragedy ..love and ambition .. told against the fabulous background of Hollywood.

Title: Sunset Blvd.

Trailer:

Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043014/

Votes: 90,972

Writers: Charles Brackett / Billy Wilder

Year: 1950





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