Word: swansons
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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 manners & morals (TIME...
Sunset Boulevard. How a faded old-time movie star (Gloria Swanson) attempts a comeback with the help of her kept man (William Holden); a sardonic commentary on Hollywood 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 manners & morals (TIME...
...there is any department for which this motion picture may take honors, it is the acting of Gloria Swanson. She plays the part of a forgotten silent screen star whose desire to regain her former glory drives her insane. Although the script requires Miss Swanson to overdo a part which by its very nature demands overacting, her portrayal is excellent...
...acting of the other three principals, William Holden, Erie von Strohieim, and Nancy Olsen is also commendable as is that of the minor characters. Von Stroheim plays the part of Miss Swanson's devoted servant who was also the director who originally "discovered her" and became her first husband. Holden, the script writer whose inability to get anywhere leads to his becoming Miss Swanson's "kept man," suffers through this indignity with a convincing series of pained expressions and outbursts, while his voice narrates the story from a "there I was, what-could-I-do" point of view. Miss Olsen...