Word: sunsets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sunset Boulevard. How a faded movie star (Gloria Swanson) attempts a comeback with the help of her kept man (William Holden); a sardonic commentary on Hollywood's manners & morals (TIME...
...Sunset Boulevard. How a faded movie star (Gloria Swanson) attempts a comeback with the help of her kept man (William Holden); a sardonic commentary on Hollywood's manners & morals (TIME...
...Sunset Boulevard. How a faded movie star (Gloria Swanson) attempts a comeback with the help of her kept man (William Holden); a sardonic commentary on Hollywood's manners & morals (TIME...
...picture itself may strike some as a disturbing symptom of a jungle mentality that flourishes in the U.S. far beyond the boundaries of Hollywood. By making a gutless heel into a sympathetic, attractive, and pseudo-sophisticated "hero," Sunset Boulevard seems to say that the smudged line between right & wrong is about the same as the line of least resistance. Yet a good deal of the sympathy the "hero" arouses is the shamefaced, there-but-for-the-grace-of-God kind of sympathy aroused by any conscience-stricken, miserable human being...
...also made-and lost, through wild extravagance and woolly business deals-several million dollars; she says she has lost track of just how many. She looks younger than her years, is still energetic enough to have taken on a three-month tour of 30 cities as advance agent for Sunset Boulevard. She insists, with justice (but probably in vain): "It is not the story of my life...