Sunset Boulevard (film)
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Sunset Boulevard is a 1950 American black comedy film noir directed by Billy Wilder and co-written by Wilder, Charles Brackett, and D. M. Marshman Jr. It is named after a major street that runs throug
Theatrical release poster
Gloria Swanson and Billy Wilder
Wilder considered many actors for the lead roles, but chose Swanson and Holden.
Theatrical advertisement from 1950
William Holden
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William Franklin Holden was an American actor and one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the film Stalag 17 and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outs
Sunset Boulevard (film)
…Wilder, Charles Brackett, and D. M. Marshman Jr. It is named after a major street that runs through Hollywood and western Los Angeles. The film stars William Holden as Joe Gillis, a struggling screenwriter, and Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, a former silent film star who draws him into her deranged fantasy world…
Holden in a publicity photo, 1950
A young Holden (left) with Lee J. Cobb in his first starring role in a film, Golden Boy (1939)
With George Raft (right) in Invisible Stripes (1939)