🎥 Sunset Boulevard - 1950 - Gloria Swanson - 🎥 FULL MOVIE

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✅ The Story ...

At a mansion on Sunset Boulevard, a group of police officers and photographers discover the body of Joe Gillis floating face down in the swimming pool. In a flashback, Joe relates the events leading to his death.

Six months earlier, Joe was a down-on-his-luck screenwriter trying to interest Paramount Pictures in a story he submitted. Script reader Betty Schaefer harshly critiques it, unaware that Joe is listening.

Later, while fleeing from repossession of men seeking his car, Joe turns into the driveway of a seemingly deserted mansion inhabited by forgotten silent film star, Norma Desmond. Learning that Joe is a writer, Norma asks his opinion of a script she has written for a film about Salome. She plans to play the role herself in her return to the screen. Joe finds her script abysmal but flatters her into hiring him as a script doctor.

Moved into Norma's mansion at her insistence, Joe sees that Norma refuses to accept that her fame has evaporated, and he learns that her butler Max secretly writes the fan letters she receives. At her New Year's Eve party, he realizes she has fallen in love with him. Joe tries to let her down gently, but Norma slaps him and retreats to her room.

Joe visits his friend Artie Green and again meets Betty, who thinks a scene in one of Joe's scripts has potential. When he phones Max to have him pack his things, Max tells him Norma cut her wrists with his razor. Joe returns to Norma, and their relationship becomes non-platonic.

Norma has Max deliver the edited Salome script to her former director Cecil B. DeMille at Paramount. She starts getting calls from Paramount executive Gordon Cole but refuses to speak to anyone except DeMille.

Eventually, she has Max drive her and Joe to Paramount in her 1929 Isotta Fraschini. DeMille welcomes her affectionately and treats her with great respect, tactfully evading her questions about her script. Max learns that Cole wants to rent her unusual car for a film.

Preparing for her imagined comeback, Norma undergoes rigorous beauty treatments. Joe secretly works nights in Betty's office, collaborating on an original screenplay.

His moonlighting is found out by Max, who reveals that he was a respected film director who discovered Norma, made her a star, and was her first husband. After she divorced him, he abandoned his career to become her servant.

The story unfolds ...

✅ Credits :

Directed by : Billy Wilder
Written by : Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder and D. M. Marshman Jr.
Produced by : Charles Brackett
Cinematography : John F. Seitz
Edited by : Doane Harrison and Arthur Schmidt
Music by : Franz Waxman
Production Company : Paramount Pictures
Distributed by : Paramount Pictures
Release Date : August 10, 1950

✅ Cast :

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, film producer
Lloyd Gough as Morino, Joe's agent
Jack Webb as Artie Green
Franklyn Farnum as undertaker
Larry J. Blake as finance man #1
Charles Dayton as finance man #2
Jack Warden as New Year's Eve party guest
Cecil B. DeMille as himself
Hedda Hopper as herself
Sidney Skolsky as himself
Buster Keaton as himself (bridge player)
Anna Q. Nilsson as herself (bridge player)
H. B. Warner as himself (bridge player)
Ray Evans (pianist at Artie's party)
Jay Livingston (pianist at Artie's party)
Robert O'Connor as Jonesy (older guard at Paramount gate)
Henry Wilcoxon as actor on DeMille's Samson and Delilah set

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Boulevard_(film)

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