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Sunset Boulevard. How a faded silent-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...
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...
...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...