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Sunset Boulevard
A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.
5 June 1878, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
24 March 1910, Portland, Maine, USA
12 December 1889, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
4 July 1911, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
5 October 1905, USA
9 December 1903, Vallejo, California, USA
February 14, 1898 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA
November 23, 1894 in Greenville, Pennsylvania, USA
19 March 1914, Lincoln, California, USA
4 July 1904, Massachusetts, USA
July 14, 1890 in Port Orange, Florida, USA
24 December 1896, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
2 May 1885, Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
28 March 1915, McDonald, Pennsylvania, USA
November 28, 1906 in Pendleton, Oregon, USA
November 6, 1890 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
17 January 1898, Sandusky, Ohio, USA
May 5, 1912 in Brooklyn, New York, USA
May 31, 1894 in Redondo Beach, California, USA
July 30, 1914 in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
March 21, 1918 in Hollywood, California, USA
January 22, 2015
Rarely is fiction shot through so glitteringly with real life.November 08, 2012
One of the great joys of the film is watching the way in which William Holden's naturalistic performance clashes with an actress and performance style from an earlier age.July 29, 2003
What's not recognized enough is the indelible, self-sickened performance of William Holden as Desmond's boy-toy/hired hack.October 14, 2011
Norma is something of a living legend, but she's also an unaware ghost: no longer of the world in which she thinks she lives.January 13, 2017
Sunset Boulevard (1950), the blackest of Hollywood's self-portraits, is an old dark house of a ghost story inhabited by the living shadows of its discarded stars.August 29, 2012
An uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.June 28, 2007
...They rate a nod for daring, as well as credit for an all-around filmmaking job that, disregarding the unpleasant subject matter, is a standout.March 04, 2014
[VIDEO ESSAY] Billy Wilder's deft weaving of gothic elements, not the least of which is Nora's decrepit mansion, casts a spell from which Joe is unable to break free. He, like the audience, is stuck in a terrible place awaiting an equally frightful fate.April 03, 2003
This is the greatest film about Hollywood ever put on celluloid by Hollywood.June 24, 2006
One of Wilder's finest, and certainly the blackest of all Hollywood's scab-scratching accounts of itself.August 14, 2007
A tour de force for Swanson and one of Wilder's better efforts.September 29, 2005
Still the best Hollywood movie ever made about Hollywood.