Movie
Sunset Boulevard
Overview
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
Details
- Release date
- 1950-08-10
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Paramount Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
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
- 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
Crew
- Billy Wilder - Director
- Charles Brackett - Screenplay
- D.M. Marshman Jr. - Screenplay
- Billy Wilder - Screenplay
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