Sunset Boulevard
A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.
5 October 1905, USA
12 August 1881, Ashfield, Massachusetts, USA
April 28, 1911 in Spokane, Washington, USA
28 March 1915, McDonald, Pennsylvania, USA
January 29, 1909 in Sumner, Washington, USA
24 September 1892, Richmond, Virginia, USA
April 16, 1898 in Butler, Pennsylvania, USA
April 11, 1881 in New York City, New York, USA
2 May 1885, Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
5 June 1878, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
May 5, 1912 in Brooklyn, New York, USA
24 March 1910, Portland, Maine, USA
May 31, 1894 in Redondo Beach, California, USA
25 July 1896, Three Rivers, Michigan, USA
November 23, 1894 in Greenville, Pennsylvania, USA
July 30, 1914 in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
18 September 1920, Newark, New Jersey, USA
November 9, 1887 in Lakewood, Ohio, USA
4 July 1911, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
February 28, 1913 in Durant, Mississippi, USA
14 July 1928, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
4 July 1904, Massachusetts, USA
2 April 1920, Santa Monica, California, USA
19 March 1914, Lincoln, California, USA
9 December 1903, Vallejo, California, USA
8 September 1905, Dominica, British West Indies
23 December 1904, New York City, New York, USA
27 March 1899, Chicago, Illinois, USA
February 14, 1898 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA
12 December 1889, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
November 08, 2012
One of the great joys of the film is watching the way in which William Holden's naturalistic performance clashes with an actress and performance style from an earlier age.
August 29, 2012
An uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.
October 14, 2011
Norma is something of a living legend, but she's also an unaware ghost: no longer of the world in which she thinks she lives.
January 22, 2015
Rarely is fiction shot through so glitteringly with real life.
September 29, 2005
Still the best Hollywood movie ever made about Hollywood.
January 13, 2017
Sunset Boulevard (1950), the blackest of Hollywood's self-portraits, is an old dark house of a ghost story inhabited by the living shadows of its discarded stars.
July 29, 2003
What's not recognized enough is the indelible, self-sickened performance of William Holden as Desmond's boy-toy/hired hack.
June 28, 2007
...They rate a nod for daring, as well as credit for an all-around filmmaking job that, disregarding the unpleasant subject matter, is a standout.
March 04, 2014
[VIDEO ESSAY] Billy Wilder's deft weaving of gothic elements, not the least of which is Nora's decrepit mansion, casts a spell from which Joe is unable to break free. He, like the audience, is stuck in a terrible place awaiting an equally frightful fate.
June 24, 2006
One of Wilder's finest, and certainly the blackest of all Hollywood's scab-scratching s of itself.
April 03, 2003
This is the greatest film about Hollywood ever put on celluloid by Hollywood.
August 14, 2007
A tour de force for Swanson and one of Wilder's better efforts.
