![]() ![]() Joe Gillis is a down on his luck screenwriter who meets Norma while he's fleeing men who are trying to repossess his car. Norma Desmond lives her present in the past when she was in her heyday as the most celebrated actress of her generation. ![]() It is a film about a movie star of the silent movie era who is left behind as she ages and films become talkies. is one of the best movies ever made about Hollywood. DeMille, iconic gossip columnist Hedda Hopper, and even silent star Buster Keaton appear in the film as themselves. ![]() The film was written and directed by the legendary Billy Wilder and starred William Holden as struggling screenwriter Joe Gillis, Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, a former star of silent films who desperately wants to transition into talking pictures, and Erich von Stroheim as Max von Maylerling, her loyal butler. Sunset Boulevard(or Sunset Blvd.) is a classic movie still taught in film classes today, 72 years after its release. ![]()
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