Sunset Boulevard
(1950)
Sunset Blvd.
A Hollywood Story
Stars: 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, C
Director: Billy Wilder
Writer: Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, D.M. Marshman Jr.
Language: English
Studio: Paramount
Duration: 1
Rated: Unrated
DVD Release: November 2002
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.
| Larry J. Blake | 1st Finance Man (as Larry Blake) |
| Jack Webb | Artie Green |
| Archie Twitchell | Salesman at Men's Shop |
| Gloria Swanson | Norma Desmond |
| Jay Livingston | Himself |
| John F. Seitz | Cinematographer |
| Ray Evans | Himself |
| Arthur P. Schmidt | Editor |
| Anna Q. Nilsson | Herself |
| Roy Thompson | Rudy - Shoeshine Boy |
| Doane Harrison | Editor |
| Cecil B. DeMille | Himself |
| Buster Keaton | Buster Keaton |
| Nancy Olson | Betty Schaefer |
| Erich von Stroheim | Max Von Mayerling |
| H.B. Warner | Himself |
| Creighton Hale | Creighton Hale |
| Franz Waxman | Original Music Composer |
| Franklyn Farnum | Undertaker |
| Hedda Hopper | Herself |
| Fred Clark | Sheldrake |
| Hans Dreier | Art Direction |
| Charles Dayton | 2nd Finance Man |
| Fred Aldrich | Cop Who Drags Joe's Body from Pool |
| Gerry Ganzer | Connie - Betty's Roommate |
| John Meehan | Art Direction |
| Joel Allen | Prop Man #2 |
| Stan Johnson | first assistant director |
| William Holden | Joe Gillis |
| Lloyd Gough | Morino |
| Sam Comer | Set Decoration |
| Gertrude Astor | Courtier |
| Ray Moyer | Set Decoration |
| Anne Bauchens | Editor |
| Edith Head | Costume Design |
| Edward Biby | Restaurant Patron |
| Ancion | The dancer (as Mlle. Ancion) |
| Wally Westmore | Makeup Artist |
| Danny Borzage | Accordionist |
| Max Skladanowsky | Cinematographer |
| Hugh Brown | Production Manager |
| Ken Christy | Homicide Captain |
| Ruth Clifford | Sheldrake's Secretary |
| Harry Lindgren | Creature Design |
| John Cortay | Mac - Young Gate Guard at Paramount Studios |
| John Cope | Creature Design |
| Archie R. Dalzell | Camera Operator |
| Eddie Dew | Assistant Coroner |
| Doris Dawson | Actress |
| Peter Drynan | Tailor |
| Julia Faye | Hisham |
| Al Ferguson | Phone Standby |
| Rudy Germane | Detective |
| Kenneth Gibson | Salesman at Men's Shop |
| Joe Gray | Undetermined Role |
| Sanford E. Greenwald | Newsreel Cameraman |
| Chuck Hamilton | Grip on DeMille Set |
| James Hawley | camera assistant |
| Len Hendry | Police Sergeant |
| E. Mason Hopper | Doctor |
| Tiny Jones | Little Woman Outside Paramount Gate |
| Howard Joslin | Police Lieutenant |
| Arthur Lane | Camera Operator |
| Perc Launders | Violinist at Norma's New Year's Eve Party |
| Alan Marston | Reporter |
| William Meader | Party Guest |
| Gertrude Messinger | Hairdresser |
| Harold Miller | Man on Golf Course |
| John 'Skins' Miller | Hog-eye - Electrician |
| Lee Miller | Dancing Party Guest |
| Ralph Montgomery | Prop Man #1 |
| Bert Moorhouse | Gordon Cole |
| Jay Morley | Fat Man |
| Bernice Mosk | Bernice |
| Howard Negley | Police Captain |
| Ottola Nesmith | Undetermined Role |
| Eva Novak | Courtier |
| Frank O'Connor | Courtier |
| Robert Emmett O'Connor | Jonesy - Older Paramount Gate Guard |
| Jack Perrin | Detective |
| Virginia L. Randolph | Courtier |
| Bill Sheehan | second assistant director |
| Sidney Skolsky | Sidney Skolsky |
| Emmett Smith | Black Man |
| Yvette Vickers | Giggling Girl on Phone at Party |
| Edward Wahrman | camera assistant |
| Jack Warden | Party Guest |
| Henry Wilcoxon | Actor on DeMille's 'Samson & Delilah' Set |
Genre: Classics, Drama
Media: DVD
Sound: Mono/BW/SE
IMDb: 32
